Gael Linn Cup 2004

Gael Linn Cup 2004
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor Schwarzkopf
Gael Linn Cup winners
Winners Munster (18th title)
Captain
Manager
Gael Linn Cup Runners-up
Runners-up Connacht
Captain
Manager
Matches played 3

The 2004 Gael Linn Cup, the most important representative competition for elite level participants in the women's team field sport of camogie, was won by Munster, who defeated Connacht in the final, played at Silver Park Kilmacud.[1][2]

Arrangements

Connacht defeated Leinster in an exceptional quality semi-final by 3–11 to 3–10. Munster defeated Ulster 1–20 to 1–9. A goal from Tipperary's Deirdre Hughes helped Munster defeat Connacht by seven points in the final. Hughes scored the goal after she was fed by her county colleague Eimear McDonnell, helping Munster lead by 1–8 to 0–5 at half time. Cork' Mary O'Connor was selected as the player of the tournament helped by her tally of 0–3 in the final, while Tipperary's Deirdre Hughes, Eimear McDonnell and Limerick's Eileen O'Brien were Munster's heroines as they defeated Connacht by 1–16 to 1–9.[3]

Final stages

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Munster:
GK 1 Aoife Murray (Cork)
RCB 2 Joanne O'Callaghan (Cork)
FB 3 Una O'Dwyer (Tipperary)
LCB 4 Mairéad Kelly (Limerick)
RWB 5 Sinéad Nealon (Tipperary)
CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Cork)
LWB 7 Therese Brophy (Tipperary)
MF 8 Angie McDermott (Tipperary)
MF 9 Siobhán Ryan (captain) (Tipperary)
RWF 10 Jenny O'Leary (Cork)
CF 11 Emily Hayden (Tipperary)
LWF 12 Vera Sheehan (Limerick)
RCF 13 Eimear McDonnell (Tipperary)
FF 14 Deirdre Hughes (Tipperary)
LCF 15 Eileen O'Brien (Limerick)
Connacht:
GK 1 Sharon Finneran (Rocommon)
RCB 2 Martina Harkin (Galway)
FB 3 Sinéad Cahalan (Galway)
LCB 4 Lizzie Flynn (Galway)
RWB 5 Colette Glennon (Galway)
CB 6 Ailbhe Kelly (Galway)
LWB 7 Sinéad Keane (Galway)
MF 8 Caroline Kelly (Galway)
MF 9 Anne Hardiman (Galway)
RWF 10 Caroline Murray (Galway)
CF 11 Áine Hillary (Galway)
LWF 12 Ann Marie Hayes (Galway)
RCF 13 Orla Kilkenny (Galway)
FF 14 Lourda Kavanagh (Galway)
LCF 15 Emma Kilkelly (Galway)

Junior Final

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Munster:
GK 1 Ellen Clifford (Cork)
RCB 2 Joan Scanlon (Clare)
FB 3 Helen Breen (Tipperary)
LCB 4 Caitríona Foley (Cork)
RWB 5 Méadhbh Corcoran (Tipperary)
CB 6 Amanda O'Regan (Cork)
LWB 7 Kate Marie Hearn (Waterford)
MF 8 Elaine O'Riordan (Cork)
MF 9 Julie Kirwan (Tipperary)
RWF 10 Áine Lyng (Waterford)
CF 11 Anna Geary (Cork)
LWF 12 Deirdre Murphy (Clare)
RCF 13 Catherine O'Loughlin (Clare)
FF 14 Miriam Deasy (Cork)
LCF 15 Mary Coleman (Cork)
Leinster:
GK 1 Emer Butler]] (captain) (Dublin)
RCB 2 Sylvia Hanks (Dublin)
FB 3 Aishling Moran (Wexford)
LCB 4 Jenny Codd (Wexford)
RWB 5 Eileen Hanrick (Wexford)
CB 6 Louise Conlon (Kildare)
LWB 7 Anna Campion (Laois)
MF 8 Therese Keenan (Laois)
MF 9 Orla Bambury (Kildare)
RWF 10 Gretta Heffernan (Wexford)
CF 11 Bernie Kennedy (Kildare)
LWF 12 Una Leacy (Wexford)
RCF 13 Jeanette Feighery (Offaly)
FF 14 Susie O'Carroll (Kildare)
LCF 15 Evelyn Quigley (Wexford).

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References

  1. Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
  2. Gael Linn Cup on Camogie.ie
  3. 2004 Munster 1–16 Connacht 1–9 report in Hogan Stand Irish Times and Irish Independent

    Gael Linn Trophy

    Prolific scoring from Clare's Catherine O'Loughlin, Waterford's Áine Lyng, Cork's Anna Geary, Clare's Deirdre Murphy and Cork's Mary Coleman helped Munster defeat Ulster 6–17 to 1–8 and Leinster 4–16 to 1–4 to retain the Gael-Linn Trophy.

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Preceded by
Gael Linn Cup 2003
Gael Linn Cup
1954 – present
Succeeded by
Gael Linn Cup 2005
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