Anne Dalton (born 22 May 1988; legally spelled Ann Dalton) is a

camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

player. She was an All-Ireland winning medalist in 2016, and won five camogie All Star awards in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2017. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final.

Career

Ashbourne Cup The Ashbourne Cup is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion university or third level college. The Ashbourne Cup is the highest division in inter-collegiate camogie. The competition features many of the ...

medal-winner with Waterford IT in 2009,

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, and 2011 she has won All-Ireland Minor and National League titles with Kilkenny. Described as a "stylish captain" in the programme notes for the 2009 All Ireland final she has collected three All-Irelands in succession 2004, 2005, and 2006, four Leinsters and six county crowns with her club St. Lachtain's, and has provincial titles at inter-county level in Under-14, Under-16 (three) and Under-18 (four). Her senior debut was in 2007. Dalton retired from inter-county in early 2021.

Media

Dalton was the subject of a 2023 ''

Laochra Gael ''Laochra Gael'' (; "''Heroes of the Gaels''") is an Irish television programme. With the 2022 series its twentieth, the show profiles and celebrates some of the greatest names in Gaelic games (hurling, Gaelic football, ladies' Gaelic football an ...

'' episode.

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