Nell McCarthy

Nell McCarthy, Éilís Ní Chártaigh
15th President of Camogie Association
In office 1971–1973
Succeeded by	Nancy Murray

Ellen ‘Nell’ McCarthy (Éilís Ní Chártaigh) was the 15th president of the Camogie Association and the most successful camogie coach of all time, training Dublin camogie teams at a time they won 18 All Irelands in a 19-year-period. She was born in Carrigtwohill in Cork. Her uncle Jimmy Kennedy captained Cork senior hurlers to All Ireland honours in 1919.^[1]

Career

She played with the Dublinclub Celtic and went on to manage them winning the first All Ireland Club Championship in 1964.

President

She was chair of Dublin County Camogie Board from 1952 to 1970 before defeating Inez Leonard in the contest for the presidency in 1971. As chair in Dublin she had initiated the sports’ first coaching course in Gormanston College and expanded it nationwide as president.

Her presidency was marked by the change in regulation to allow skirts rather than the traditional gymslips with black stockings at congress in 1972. The ban on camogie players playing hockey, soccer and Ladies Football was lifted and CCIA was set up with Úna Uí Phuirséil as chair.

In 1971 four issues of the first dedicated camogie magazine was published under the editorship of Kilkenny player Ann Carroll.

She died on February 18, 2009.^[2] Cork hurler Niall McCarthy was her grand nephew.

References

1. ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. pp. 460. 
2. ^ Report of death on RTE online, Report on bannerladies.com

External links

• Liz Howard’s memory of Nell McCarthy’s training regime
• Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website
• On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine Issue 1 and issue 2
• History of Camogie slideshow. presented by Cumann Camógaíochta Communications Committee at GAA Museum January 25, 2010 part one, part two, part three and part four
• Camogie on official GAA website
• Timeline: History of Camogie
• Camogie on GAA Oral History Project
• County and provincial websites: Antrim Armagh Clare Connacht Cork Derry Down Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Leinster Limerick London Louth Meath Munster North America Offaly Tipperary Ulster Waterford Wexford Wicklow

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