Geraldine ‘Gerry’ Hughes 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, captain of the
All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1961 and 1962.
Career
She won six
All Ireland senior medals in all. Her best display may have been Dublin's 8–4 to 1–0 victory over Cork in the 1964 All Ireland semi-final.
Irish Independent
(via Irish Newspaper Archives
The Irish Newspaper Archives is a commercial online database of digitised Irish newspapers, and claims to be the world's oldest and largest archive of Irish newspapers.
Subscription-free access to the archive is available to users in Irish publi ...
) 22 July 1963 Page 12: Dublin assert superiority in second half.
References
External links
Camogie.ie
Official Camogie Association Website
Dublin camogie players
Year of birth missing
Possibly living people
20th-century Irish women
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