All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1978

The 1978 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship for the leading clubs in the women's team field sport of camogie was won by Ballyagran of Limerick, who defeated Buffers Alley from Wexford in the final, played at Monamolin.[1][2] It was the last club final to be played with the second crossbar, the "points bar," as per the rules of the game as amended by Congress in 1929.

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1978
Championship Details
Dates
Competitors
Sponsor
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship winners
Winners Ballyagran (Limerick) (1st title)
Captain Pauline McCarthy
Manager
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship Runners-up
Runners-up Buffers Alley (Wx)
Captain Kathleen Tonks
Manager
Matches played

Arrangements

The championship was organised on the traditional provincial system used in Gaelic Games since the 1880s, with Portglenone defeating Swatragh in the Ulster final (with former Ahane player Vera Mackey on their side) and Athenry winning the Connacht championship. In Munster Ballyagran defeated Éire Óg from Cork and then got a bye from the Tipperary champions. They then staged a great second half recovery against Portglenone, who led 2–4 to 0–1 by half-time, to win the semi-final. Every member of the Buffers Alley team had played inter county players at senior or junior grade.

The Final

The scale of the Ballyagran victory was unexpected, a five-point margin in one of the lowest scoring finals.[3][4][5]

Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

Ballyagran scored an unexpectedly easy victory over Buffers Alley. Six of the Ballyagran team were on the Limerick senior team which won Al-Ireland junior medals in 1977, and five of the team played in the 1978 National Camogie League final, goalie Helen Butler, Pauline McCarthy, the O'Brien sister Geraldine and Bernadette and Liz Hayes.

Final stages
Ballyagran (Lk)4-3 – 2-5Portglenone
Buffers Alley (Wx)2-6 – 0-8Athenry
Ballyagran (Lk)1-3 – 0-1Buffers Alley (Wx)
Buffers Alley
Ballyagran (Lk):
GK1Helen Butler
FB2Anne Fahy
RWB3Breda Murphy
CB4Geraldine O'Brien
LWB5Liz Hayes
MF6Bernadette O'Brien
MF7Pauline McCarthy (captain)
MF8Vera Mackey
RWF9Margaret Mary O'Keeffe
CF10Marita Murphy
LWF11Margaret Carroll
FF12Margo O'Connell
Buffers Alley (Wx):
GK1Kathleen Tonks
FB2Margaret Leacy
RWB3Geraldine Duggan
CB4Martina Cousins
LWB5Deirdre Cousins
MF6Fiona Cousins
MF7Dorothy Walsh
MF8Teresa Hobbs
RWF9Caroline O'Leary
CF10Maggie Hearne
LWF11Bridie Jacob
FF12Ann Butler

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. All Ireland club championships on Camogie.ie
  3. Report of final in Irish Press, November 20, 1978
  4. Report of final in Irish Independent, November 20, 1978
  5. Report of final in Irish Times, November 20, 1978
  6. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, November 6, 1978
  7. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, November 6, 1978
  8. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, November 6, 1978
  9. Report of semi-final in Irish Press, November 6, 1978
  10. Report of semi-final in Irish Independent, November 6, 1978
  11. Report of semi-final in Irish Times, November 6, 1978
Preceded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1977		 All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship
1964 – present		 Succeeded by
All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship 1979
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