# 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Foras na Gaeilge (formerly Bórd na Gaeilge) All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2000 season. The championship was won by Tipperary who achieved a second successive title beating Cork by a five-point margin in the final. The attendance was 12,880, second highest in the history of the sport of camogie at that time.

## Birth of a rivalry

This and subsequent finals between the two counties was a high point in a period of rapid growth in the popularity of the sport of camogie which quadrupled the average attendance at its finals in a ten-year period. “It was unquestionably a day on which the profile of the game soared and many players produced moments of individual brilliance.,” Pat Roche wrote in the Irish Times.

## Early rounds

Cork beat Kilkenny by 2-10 to 1-12 in the quarter-finals, Tipperary beat Clare 4-15 to 0-5, Galway beat Limerick 4-13 to 1-8 and Wexford beat Dublin 4-12 to 0-6. Cork easily defeated Wexford keeping them scoreless until just before the half-time whistle, in the semi-final. A goal by Noelle Kennedy proved to be the turning point of the second semi-final in which Tipperary beat Galway 2-11 to 1-8.

## Final

Unusually Tipperary were favourites for the final. By the 17th minute they led by 2-4 to 0-2. Deirdre Hughes was quickly on to a sideline cut by Emily Hayden before netting off a post for the opening goal after four minutes. Within two minutes she palmed the ball to the Cork net to finish off an astute centre from the 14-year-old Claire Grogan. Cork's goal in reply came too late from Una O'Donoghue.

### Final stages

| Tipperary | Cork |
TIPPERARY: :
| GK | 1 | Jovita Delaney (Cashel) (Capt) |
| RCB | 2 | Suzanne Kelly (Toomevara) |
| FB | 3 | Una O'Dwyer (Cashel) |
| LCB | 4 | Claire Madden (Nenagh Éire Óg) |
| RWB | 5 | Sinéad Nealon (Burgess) |
| CB | 6 | Ciara Gaynor (Burgess) (0-1) |
| LWB | 7 | Therese Brophy (Burgess) |
| MF | 8 | Emily Hayden (Cashel) |
| MF | 9 | Angela McDermott (Kildangan) |
| RWF | 10 | Philly Fogarty (Cashel) (0-1) |
| CF | 11 | Noelle Kennedy (Toomevara) |
| LWF | 12 | Caitríona Hennessy (Cashel) (0-4) |
| RCF | 13 | Eimear McDonnell (Burgess) (0-2) |
| FF | 14 | Deirdre Hughes (Toomevara) (2-2) |
| LCF | 15 | Claire Grogan (Cashel) (0-2) |
CORK: :
| GK | 1 | Cora Keohane (Barryroe) |
| RCB | 2 | Denise Cronin (Glen Rovers) (0-1) |
| FB | 3 | Eithne Duggan (Bishopstown) |
| LCB | 4 | Mags Finn (Fr O'Neill’s) |
| RWB | 5 | Sarah Hayes (Rockbán) |
| CB | 6 | Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) |
| LWB | 7 | Vivienne Harris (Bishopstown) (Capt) |
| MF | 8 | Ursula Troy (Newtownshandrum) |
| MF | 9 | Linda Mellerick (Glen Rovers) |
| RWF | 10 | Sinéad O'Callaghan (Ballinhassig) (0-2) |
| CF | 11 | Fiona O'Driscoll (Fr O'Neill’s) (0-4) |
| LWF | 12 | Caoimhe Harrington (Newtownshandrum) 49' |
| RCF | 13 | Elaine Burke (Valley Rovers) (0-1) 30' |
| FF | 14 | Ciara Healy (Bishopstown) |
| LCF | 15 | Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) (1-1) |
| Substitutes: ||||
| MF | | Paula O'Connor (Newtownshandrum) for Burke 30' |
| FF | | Mary Burke for Harrington 49' |