Deirdre Costello 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 an All Ireland senior club medal in the mid ’80s, and winner of the award for Camogie Minor Player of the year in 1977.

Award year

She won two All Ireland club medals at different grades in 1977, scoring two goals in the All Ireland U 16 final against Galway in September, scoring 3-5 for

Holy Faith Secondary School, Clontarf Holy Faith Secondary School, Clontarf is a girls' voluntary second level school in Clontarf on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland. Founded by the Holy Faith Sisters in 1890, and originally providing both primary (mixed sex) and secondary educat ...

whom she captained to victory against St Raphael’s, in the All Ireland colleges final in March. She has a handful of league medals with her club and has finished as high as runners-up and third place in various skills tests set by them. She once scored 2-1 in an All Ireland Under-16 final but still lost. She once played for the club in both a minor and junior B final on the same day, scoring two points in the first of them.

Career

She scored 3-3 for

in the All Ireland Senior D colleges final of ’77.

References

External links

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