Ashling Thompson is an Irish sportswoman. She plays

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 ...

with her local club,

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, and with the

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Senior Camogie team. Her partner is well known Limerick All Ireland Winning Midfielder

Darragh O'Donovan Darragh O'Donovan (born 1995) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for club side Doon and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. His partner is well known Cork All-Ireland Winning Camogie Captain Ashling Thompso ...

Career

Thompson began playing camogie for

aged 7. With them, she has won three

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

s. Ashling has won the All-Ireland camogie championship with Cork six times. She helped her team to glory in:

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and

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. Thompson won an All Star Award in 2015, 2017, 2022 and 2024. She was the subject of a ''

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 in 2018.

Personal life

Thompson's mother was involved in the founding of Milford camogie club. A car accident in 2009 caused severe muscle damage to her neck and back and led to a period of mental illness. In 2012, a boyfriend committed suicide. Thompson supports the Irish Life Health Schools' Fitness Challenge and has spoken out on mental health issues. Thompson appeared on '' The Late Late Show'' on 10 February 2017. She is known for her large collection of

tattoo A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes ...

s, and work with various charities. On 25 June 2019, Thompson was ordered to pay a total of €6,000 without conviction by Cork District Court after she entered a guilty plea to assaulting two separate individuals while intoxicated in an incident on 25 February 2018.

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* * Living people Cork camogie players Gaelic games players from County Cork 1990 births {{Cork-camogie-bio-stub

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