2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Camogie championship April 2022 2008 1 June — 14 September 2008 7 Cork 22nd Cathriona Foley Denise Cronin Galway Sinéad Cahalan Liam Donoghue 2007 2009 The 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2008 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a five-point margin in the final. Moran Mary Mary Moran (camogie) A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie Cumann Camógaíochta 2011 Dublin, Ireland 460 978-1-908591-00-52008 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times and Reaction in Irish Examiner The championship was played between June 1 and September 14, 2008. The format was as follows: seven county teams entered. Each team played all of the others once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top four teams qualified for the semi-finals. Group stages Substitute Lourda Kavanagh’s late goal helped Galway to a surprise against Cork in the group stages by 1–9 to 0–8 at Páirc Ui Rinn. Cork went on to gain revenge when the same teams med again in the All-Ireland final, the second time a group result had been reversed in the final in the three years since the round-robin format was introduced into the championship in 2006. Results Group stage The cross table below summarises the group stages, which were played from June 1 to August 3, 2008. Away results are italicised. TeamCGWTKDLPtsCork - 0 22 2 2 210Galway2 - 2 1 0 2 29Wexford0 0 - 2 2 2 28Tipperary0 1 0 - 2 2 27Kilkenny0 2 0 0 - 2 26Dublin0 0 0 00 - 22Limerick0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 Final stages August 24Semi-Final Cork 3–14 – 0–10 Tipperary Nowlan Park, Kilkenny August 24Semi-Final Wexford 1–10 – 1–13 Galway Nowlan Park, Kilkenny September 14Final Cork 2–10 – 1–8 Galway Croke Park, Dublin _red_2 _red _red_3 FF0000 FFFFFF FF0000 Cork800000 800000 800000 FFFFFF 800000 Galway CORK: GK 1 Aoife Murray (Cloughduv) RCB 2 Linda O'Connell (St Finbarr's) FB 3 Cathriona Foley ( Rockbán https://web.archive.org/web/20120416095409/http://homepage.eircom.net/~rockbangaa/ 16 April 2012 ) (captain)LCB 4 Joanne Callaghan (Cloughduv) RWB 5 Gemma O'Connor (St Finbarr's) CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) LWB 7 Sarah Hayes (Courcey Rovers) MF 8 Orla Cotter (St Catherine’s) 0-1MF 9 Briege Corkery (Cloughduv) 0-1RWF 10 Amanda Regan (Douglas) 57CF 11 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) 47LWF 12 Emer O'Sullivan (Ballinhassig) 0-1RCF 13 Sile Burns ( Rockbán https://web.archive.org/web/20120416095409/http://homepage.eircom.net/~rockbangaa/ 16 April 2012 ) (captain) 2-0FF 14 Rachel Maloney (Courcey Rovers) 0-7LCF 15 Elaine Riordan (Milford) Half timeSubstitutes: LCF Emer Farrell (Sarsfields) for O'Riordan (half-time)CF Rena Buckley (Inniscarra) for O'Donoghue 47RWF Linda Dorgan (Inniscarra) for O'Regan 57GALWAY: GK 1 Susan Earner (Meelick Eyrecourt)RCB 2 Sandra Tannian (St Thomas)FB 3 Aibhe Kelly (Davitts)LCB 4 Therese Manton (Mullagh) RWB 5 Ann Marie Hayes (Killimor) CB 6 Sinéad Cahalan (Mullagh) (captain)LWB 7 Niamh Kilkenny (Pearses)MF 8 Aine Hillary (Pearses) 1-0MF 9 Sarah Noone (Ahascragh-Caltra https://web.archive.org/web/20221105202842/http://www.caltra.gaa.ie/ 5 November 2022 ) 48RWF 10 Molly Dunne (Meelick Eyrecourt) Half timeCF 11 Therese Maher (Athenry) LWF 12 Veronica Curtin (Kinvara https://web.archive.org/web/20120421224219/http://www.kinvara.gaa.ie/ 21 April 2012 ) RCF 13 Orla Kilkenny (Pearses) FF 14 Jessica Gill (Athenry) LCF 15 Brenda Kerins (Ardrahan) 58Substitutes: RWF Lourda Kavanagh (Davitts) for Dunne (half-time)MF Catriona Cormican (Cappataggle for Noone 48LCF Deirdre Burke (Meelick Eyrecourt) for Kerins 58 References External links Reports of 2008 All Ireland final in Independent, Irish Times Examiner, Reaction in Examiner Video highlights of 2008 championship Part One, Part Two and Part three Video of 2008 All Ireland finals preview Video of 2008 All Ireland semi-final Wexford v Galway Results on camogie.ie (MS Excel document) Official Camogie Website Review of championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2007 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009 1932 – present 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship