Breda Holmes is a former
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, winner of the
B+I Star of the Year award in 1987
and seven All Ireland medals in succession between 1984 and 1991, celebrating the seventh by scoring the match-turning goal from
Ann Downey’s sideline ball against Cork in the 1991 final.
Career
She captained Carysfort Training College in their 1984
Purcell Cup campaign and won six
All Ireland club medals with
St Paul’s camogie club, based in Kilkenny city.
References
Living people
Kilkenny camogie players
Year of birth missing (living people)
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