Briege Corkery

Briege Corkery
Personal information
Irish name	Bríd Ní Chorcora
Sport	Ladies' Gaelic football and Camogie
Position	Left Half Back
Born	(1986-12-16) 16 December 1986 Cork, Republic of Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Cloughduv and St. Val's
Club titles
Cork titles	3
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
2006-	Cork
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands	16
All Stars	15

Briege Corkery (born 16 December 1986) in Cork is a camogie player, footballer, and stonemason, winner of six All Ireland camogie medals in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2015 as well as the winner of ten All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.^[1] She has won camogie All Star awards in 2006, 2008 and 2009. 2012 2014 2015 In 2008 she became the sixth camogie player in history to be awarded the Texaco Player of the Year award. Briege is joint as the most successful GAA player in history with 16 All Ireland Medals with Rena buckley

Career

Briege is the holder of three county Senior championship medals as well as Minor, Intermediate and Senior All-Ireland and Munster honours. She is also a prominent footballer and scored a goal in Cork's 2009 All-Ireland semi-final win over Mayo. She was named as national female sports person of the year in 2005 following superb performances both in camogie and football. Briege is also a dual All Star, and won a monthly award from 96/103fm and the Rochestown Park Hotel following splendid displays in 2008.^[2] Her brother Donal won a Cork County Junior A League with Cloughduv in 2012.

References

↑ "All Ireland final". Irish Times (Irish Times). 13 September 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
↑ All Ireland camogie final programme 2009

External links

Official Camogie Website
Cronin’s championship diary in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine
Fixtures and results for the 2009 O'Duffy Cup
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour
Video highlights of 2009 championship Part One and part two
Video Highlights of 2009 All Ireland Senior Final
Report of All Ireland final in Irish Times Independent and Examiner

Cork – 2005 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champions (1st title)

1 E. Harte 2 R. Buckley 3 A. Walsh 4 B. Stack 5 B. Corkery 6 C. Walsh 7 S. O'Reilly 8 J. Murphy (c) 9 N. Kelly 10 A. Murphy 11 R. Curtin 12 N. Cleary 13 V. Mulcahy 14 C. Creedon 15 G. O'Flynn Subs used M. O'Connor for G. O'Flynn D. O'Reilly for C. Creedon A. O'Connor for R. Curtin N. Keohane for A. Murphy

Cork – 2006 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champions (2nd title)

1 E. Harte 2 R. Buckley 3 A. Walsh 4 B. Corkery 5 G. O'Flynn 6 B. Stack 7 S. O'Reilly 8 J. Murphy (c) 9 N. Kelly 10 N. Cleary 11 D. O'Reilly 12 A. Murphy 13 V. Mulcahy 14 M. O'Connor 15 C. Creedon Subs used M. Kelly for V. Mulcahy C. Walsh for A. Murphy A. Murphy for C. Creedon

Cork – 2007 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champions (3rd title)

1 E. Harte 2 C. Walsh 3 A. Walsh 4 Rena Buckley 5 L. Barrett 6 B. Stack 7 B. Corkery 8 J. Murphy (c) 9 N. Kelly 10 G. O'Flynn 11 L. McMahon 12 N. Cleary 13 V. Mulcahy 14 A. Murphy 15 D. O'Reilly Subs used Rhona Buckley for N. Kelly M. Kelly for L. McMahon A. O'Shea for N. Cleary C. Foley for C. Walsh S. O'Reilly for L. Barrett

Cork – 2009 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Champions (5th title)

1 E. Harte 2 Rena Buckley 3 A. Walsh 4 G. O'Flynn 5 C. O'Sullivan 6 B. Stack 7 B. Corkery 8 J. Murphy 9 N. Kelly 10 N. Cleary 11 D. O'Reilly 12 A. O'Shea 13 M. O'Connor (c) 14 V. Mulcahy 15 Rhona Buckley Subs used L. McMahon for A. O'Shea L. Barrett for Rhona Buckley M. Kelly for M. O'Connor Manager E. Ryan

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