Bernadette "Bernie" Murray (born 1985) is a Northern Irish sportswoman. She 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 for

Armagh GAA The Armagh County Board () or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The county board is resp ...

. She is also a teacher. She made her inter-county debut in 2003.

History

Murray plays her club camogie for St Patrick's GFC, Cullyhanna. She made her camogie debut for Armagh in 2003. Until 2010, she had won two All Ireland Nancy Murray Cups, an Ulster senior championship and two Ulster intermediate championships. In 2010, she was awarded a Soaring Star award by the An Cumann Camogaiochta (Camogie Association). She was made captain of Armagh in 2011. In 2014, the Camogie Association of Ireland announced they were establishing an award for longevity and each GAA county were entitled to nominate a camogie player for this award. The Armagh county board announced that they were awarding their "Camogie Player of the Decade" to Murray. In 2015, she stepped away from county camogie for two months due to disillusionment. During her hiatus, she played

gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

for Boston.

Career

Murray is a teacher at St Patrick's High School, where she also taught Armagh teammates Ciara Hill, Catherine Beagan, Ella Mone, Eimear Smyth and Leah McGoldrick whilst playing alongside them in inter-county camogie. Together they reached the 2016

All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship is a competition for third-tier county teams in the women's field sport of camogie and for second-string teams of first-tier counties. In accordance with the practice in GAA competitions the term juni ...

. Though Armagh were unsuccessful in the final, Murray won a Junior Soaring Star.

References

External links

Camogie.ie
Official Camogie Association Website {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Bernie 1985 births Living people Armagh camogie players 21st-century sportswomen from Northern Ireland 21st-century women educators from Northern Ireland Dual camogie–football players