Mary Geaney

Mary Geaney

Personal information
Irish name	Máire Nic Éanna
Sport	Camogie
Position	full forward
Born	6 May 1954 (1954-05-06) (age 57) Castleisland Kerry, Ireland
Club(s)*
Years	Club	Apps (scores)
	Eire Óg	?
Inter-county(ies)**
Years	County	Apps (scores)
	Cork	?
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)). **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).

Mary Geaney Mary Geaney (born April 6, 1954) is a former Irish sportswoman. In camogie she captained Cork to victory in the All Ireland championship of 1982^[1] and won three All Ireland medals. In hockey she played 61 times for Ireland and won an inter-continental cup medal.

Family background

Her father Con, a member of Firies club, won an All Ireland senior championship medal with Kerry in 1932. Her brother Dave, a member of Castleisland Desmonds captained the Kerry minors in 1958 and won an All Ireland championship medal with Kerry in 1959. She attended Ursuline convent school in Cork.

Camogie

She won Ashbourne Cup medals with UCC and four Cork county championship medals with Eire Óg, playing at full forward as they won in their first year after being promoted in 1977. She made her debut with the Cork junior team that year and made her senior debut in 1978, scoring for Cork in their All Ireland semi-final victory over Clare and scoring three goals in the All Ireland final where she won her first medal in the All Ireland final against Dublin.

Scoring achievements include a goal in the 1980 replay win over Limerick , two goals for Cork in the drawn All Ireland final with Kilkenny , a year in which Cork lost the replay, and a point in 1983 when she won her third All Ireland medal. She retired in 1988, having contested two more All Ireland finals and scored a goal in both the 1987 and 1988 finals.^[2] She won National League medals in 1984 and 1986.

Hockey

She played school interprovincial with Ursuline and senior inter-provincial with Old Ursuline.^[3][4] After an outstanding series of perofmrances in the inter-provincial series, she won the first of 61 caps in goal for Ireland against Englalnd in March 1975^[5] and played on the Irish team that won the inter-continental cup in Kuala Lumpur in 1983 and the 1-0 victory over England when they were world champions in 1976 and 2-1 victory in Cambridge in 1977.^[6]

Other sports

She played Gaelic football for Kerry, played squash and badminton for Munster, and played Senior Cup golf for Killarney^[7] and inter-provincial golf for Munster.^[8] She lives in Castleisland, County Kerry.

Awards

She won the Jury’s Munster sports star award for camogie in 1980 and for hockey in 1983. She also won a Kerry camogie player of the year award in 1972.

References

1. ^ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. http://www.camogie.ie/AboutCamogie/ChampionshipHistory/tabid/61/Default.aspx=Camogie.ie. Retrieved 30 June 2010. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals
3. ^ "Killarney achieve five-in-row" by Murt Murphy (Irish Sport) The Examiner (Examiner Publications Ltd)
4. ^ "Irish ladies hope for win on home front". Sunday Tribune: p. S04. 2006-10-01. 
5. ^ Irish Independent Irish Newspaper archive March 1, 1975 Page 9: “Geaney holds the key”
6. ^ Irish Independent Irish Newspaper archive Dec 16 1985 Page 13: Mary bows out.”
7. ^ Irish Independent July 5 2004
8. ^ Irish Independent Aug 5 2002

External links

• Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website
• Wikipedia List of Camogie players
• gilliankirkwood.com
• gilliankirkwood.com

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Name	Geaney, Mary
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Date of birth	6 April 1954
Place of birth	Castleisland Kerry
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