1964 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 1964 All Ireland Camogie Championship was won by Dublin, their eight title in succession in a winning streak that would eventually extend to ten in a row, beating Antrim in the final. The match was attended by more than 3,000 spectators according to the report in the Irish Times.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Semi-finals

Dublin beat the Connacht champions Galway by 10-2 to nil at Parnell Park on a day Galway were missing their goalkeeper Eileen Naughton. Antrim beat Munster champions Tipperary by 6-8 to 2-3 at Glenarriffe.

Final

Three early goals from Judy Doyle finished the match as a contest and Dublin won easily by 7-4 to 3-1.^[7] Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:

Despite the scoreline the final must rank with the greatest and most brilliant camogie matches ever played. Three early goals by their flying full forward Judy Doyle in the first seven minutes of the game proved the really vital factor in Dublin’s victory. Those early goals, all the result of crafty team-work by the experienced Dublin attack, hung heavy on the minds of the Antrim forwards for the rest of the first half. Although with the fresh breeze behind them, they had by far the greater number of chances, they often shot too hurriedly and too wildly and Concepta Clarke saved magnificently when they did shoot straight. The result was that, at the interval, Antrim had one point on the board and nine wides, while Dublin, thanks to that wonderful zig-zag solo run and flashing shot by captain Una O’Connor, and a rare piece of opportunism by Bríd Keenan, had stretched their goal total to five and their lead to fourteen points by the half-time whistle. Lesser teams than Antrim might well have accepted defeat at that stage, but the girls in saffron, having switched Lily Scullion to midfield and Maeve Gilroy to centre-forward, restarted as though the game had just begun.^[8]

Final stages

August
Semi-Final

Dublin	9-1 – 5-3	Galway

Parnell Park

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Semi-Final

Antrim	3-2 – 1-0	Tipperary

Glenarriffe

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1964-10-6
Final
14:00 BST

Dublin	7-4 – 3-1	Antrim
J Doyle 4-1, B Keenan 2-0, U O’Connor 1-3		E Smith 1-0, M Gilroy 1-0, MP Jameson 1-0, M McAtamney 0-1,

Croke Park, Dublin

Attendance: 3,100

Referee: M O’Kelly (Cork)

Dublin

Antrim

DUBLIN: GK 1 Concepta Clarke (Austin Stacks) FB 2 Mary Ryan (Austin Stacks) RWB 3 Rose O’Reilly (Na Piarsaigh) CB 4 Alison Hussey (Celtic) LWB 5 Kay Lyons (Eoghan Ruadh) MF 6 Patricia Timmons (Naomh Aoife) MF 7 Mary Sherlock Austin Stacks MF 8 Orla Ní Síocháin Austin Stacks RWF 9 Bríd Keenan (Austin Stacks) 2-0 CF 10 Kay Ryder (Austin Stacks) LWF 11 Judy Doyle (CIE) 4-1 FF 12 Úna O'Connor (Celtic) (captain) 1-3

ANTRIM: GK 1 Theresa Kearns (Dunloy) FB 2 Moya Forde (Ahogill) RWB 3 Chris O’Boyle (St Malachy’s) CB 4 Sue Ward (Deirdre) (captain) LWB 5 Mairéad Carabine St Theresa’s MF 6 Betty Smyth (Gael Uladh) 1-0 MF 7 Maeve Gilroy (St Malachy’s) 1-0 MF 8 Mairead McAtamney (Portglenone) 0-1 RWF 9 Marion McFettridge (St Malachy’s) CF 10 Lily Scullion (Ahogill) LWF 11 Kitty Finn (St Agnes’s) FF 12 Mary Phil Jameson (St Theresa’s) 1-0

MATCH RULES

• 50 minutes
• Replay if scores level
• Maximum of 3 substitutions allowable only if player was injured

See also

• All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
• Wikipedia List of Camogie players
• National Camogie League
• Camogie All Stars Awards
• Ashbourne Cup

References

External links

• Official Camogie website
• History of Camogie senior championship slideshow. presented by Cumann Camógaíochta Communications Committee at GAA Museum January 25, 2010 part one, part two, part three and part four
• Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
• Camogie on official GAA website
• Timeline: History of Camogie
• Camogie on GAA Oral History Project
• Camogie Websites for Antrim and Dublin