1991 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 1991 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was won by Kilkenny who defeated Cork by a seven-point margin in the final.^[1] The match drew an attendance of 3,024 including President Mary Robinson.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Final

Three goals from Breda Holmes won the final for Kilkenny but there was no doubting who the architect of the Kilkenny comeback was. Angela Downey’s ingenuity contributed to two of the goals, Marina Downey was the architect of the third. According to Kathryn Davis in the Irish Times:

An emotional Angela Downey, who was beset by cramp in the final minute and who looked as if she would not actually make it up the steps to receive the O’Duffy cup put it more succinctly when she said: “it was pure stubbornness. We were written off but we came back for one last hurrah.”^[7]

Final stages

Kilkenny

Cork

KILKENNY: GK 1 Marie Fitzpatrick (St Brigid’s Ballycallan) FB 2 Biddy O'Sullivan (Shamrocks) RWB 3 Una Murphy (Tullogher) CB 4 Deirdre Malone (St Brigid’s Ballycallan) LWB 5 Frances Rothwell (Mooncoin)  46' MF 6 Marina Downey (Lisdowney) MF 7 Ann Downey (Lisdowney) (0-3) MF 8 Gillian Dillon (St Lachtain's) (2-0) RWF 9 Sinéad Millea (St Brigid’s Ballycallan) CF 10 Bridget Mullally (Glenmore) LWF 11 Angela Downey (Lisdowney) (Capt) (0-4) FF 12 Breda Holmes (Lisdowney) (1-1) Substitutes: LWB Tracy Millea (St Brigid’s Ballycallan) for Rothwell  46'

CORK: GK 1 Marion McCarthy FB 2 Liz Dunphy RWB 3 Paula Goggins CB 4 Breda Kenny LWB 5 Liz Towler MF 6 Colette O’Mahony (0-3)  36' MF 7 Therese O’Callaghan (Capt) MF 8 Sandie Fitzgibbon (0-1) RWF 9 Linda Mellerick CF 10 Ger McCarthy (0-1) LWF 11 Liz O’Neill FF 12 Irene O’Leary (0-5) Substitutes: MF Irene O'Keeffe for O’Mahoney  36'

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