National Camogie League
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The National Camogie League is the second most important competition in the Irish team sport
Sport
A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

 of Camogie
Camogie
Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....

, played exclusively by women. The competition is held in four divisions graded by ability.
It was first played in 1976 for a trophy donated by Allied Irish Banks
Allied Irish Banks
Allied Irish Banks p.l.c. is a major commercial bank based in Ireland.AIB is one of the so called "big four" commercial banks in the state. The bank has one of the largest branch networks in Ireland; only Bank of Ireland fully rivals it. AIB offers a full range of personal and corporate banking...

 when Tipperary beat Wexford in a replayed final. Division Two (originally the National Junior League) was inaugurated in 1979 and won by Kildare.

The first two National League competitions started in the autumn and finished in the spring of 1976–77 and 1977–78 respectively. Since 1978 the competition has been competed within the calendar year. The 2001 final was not played until October because of the Foot and Mouth outbreak earlier in the year. From 1980 to 2005 the National League was divided into two sections – Senior and Junior. The current structure with Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 was introduced in 2006. The second division was known for a period as Division 1B and the third Division was Divisions 2, they have been reallocated for reasons of consistency in the records below.

The current holders
National Camogie League 2011
The 2011 National Camogie League was won by Wexford, their third league title in succession. The final was played on April 17 2011 as a curtain raiser to the hurling match between Tipperary and Wexford at Semple Stadium and drew an attendance of 4,180.-Summary:...

 are Wexford
Wexford GAA
The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford. The county board is also responsible for the Wexford inter-county teams.-History:Hurling has been played in...

 who defeated Galway
Galway GAA
The Galway County Boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Galway GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Galway. The county boards are also responsible for the Galway inter-county teams.Unlike all other counties in Ireland,...

 by 3-10 to 0-10 in the 2011 final.

National Senior Camogie League

County Winners Winning Years
Cork 14 1984, 1986, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007
Kilkenny 10 1978, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 2008
Wexford 4 1977–78, 2009, 2010, 2011
Dublin 3 1979, 1981, 1983
Galway 3 1994, 2002, 2005
Tipperary 2 1976–77, 2004

National Camogie League Finals

The first figure is the number of goals scored (equal to 3 points each) and the second total is the number of points scored, the figures are combined to determine the winner of a match in Gaelic Games
Gaelic games
Gaelic games are sports played in Ireland under the auspices of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The two main games are Gaelic football and hurling...

Year Date Winner Score Runner-up Score Venue Attend. Captain
1976–77 Mar 3 Tipperary
Tipperary GAA
The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or C is one of over 30 regional executive boards throughout the world. These executive boards are known as County Boards even though some no longer correspond to the area under the jurisdiction of the counties from which their names...

4-2 Wexford
Wexford GAA
The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford. The county board is also responsible for the Wexford inter-county teams.-History:Hurling has been played in...

1-3 Thurles
Thurles
Thurles is a town situated in North Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty and is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly...

Monica Butler
1977–78 Mar 5 Wexford 6-4 Cork 1-2 Castleboro
Clonroche
Clonroche is a village in County Wexford, Ireland. It is located approximately west of Enniscorthy and approximately east of New Ross, on the N30 national primary route.-History:...

Nancy O’Driscoll
Nancy O’Driscoll
Ann ‘Nancy’ O’Driscoll is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1978 and captain of the All Ireland junior winning team of 1973. She made her senior debut in 1974, played in that year’s replayed All Ireland final and won a second All Ireland senior...

1978 Nov 12 Kilkenny 2-5 Limerick 1-5 Adare
Adare
-General information:Adare's origin is as a settlement by a crossing point on the river Maigue. It is situated 16 km from Limerick City. Renowned as one of Ireland's prettiest villages, Adare is designated as a Heritage Town by the Irish government...

Mary Fennelly
Mary Fennelly
Mary Fennelly was the 19th president of the Camogie Association.-Family Background:She is first cousin of the Fennelly family from Ballyhale, of whose seven brothers four played together to win the 1989 Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship and four played together in the All Ireland hurling...

1979 Nov 18 Dublin 0-6 Limerick 0-0 Russell Park Anne O’Brien
1980 June 29 Kilkenny 3-8 Tipperary 1-3 Roscrea
Roscrea
Roscrea is a small heritage town in North Tipperary, Ireland. The town has a population of 4,910. Its main industries include meat processing and pharmaceuticals. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Ikerrin...

Bridie McGarry
Bridie McGarry
Bridie Martin-McGarry from Kilkenny is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of nine All Ireland medals.-Background and Early Career:...

1981 June 21 Dublin 1-7 Cork 1-4 Russell Park Síle Wallace
1982 May 24 Kilkenny 2-5 Cork 1-4 St Johns Park Teresa O’Neill
Teresa O’Neill
Teresa O’Neill is a former camogie player, captain of the Kilkenny All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1974, the first for the county at senior level. She won further All Ireland senior medals in 1976, 1977 and 1981...

1983 June 22 Dubin 4-8 Wexford 1-6 Russell Park Barbara Redmond
1984 May 17 Cork 1-8 Dublin 0-4 Ballinlough
Ballinlough
Ballinlough could refer to one of the following places in Ireland:*Ballinlough, Cork*Ballinlough, County Meath*Ballinlough, County Roscommon*Ballinlough Castle, County Westmeath...

Sandie Fitzgibbon
Sandie Fitzgibbon
Sandie Fitzgibbon born in Cork is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of six All Ireland medals in 1982, 1983, 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1997....

1985 June 2 Kilkenny 4-7 Dublin 3-6 Parnell Park
Parnell Park
Parnell Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Donnycarney, Dublin, Ireland with a capacity of about 11,500. It is the home of the Dublin GAA hurling, football, camogie and ladies' football teams at all levels of competition...

Bridie McGarry
Bridie McGarry
Bridie Martin-McGarry from Kilkenny is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of nine All Ireland medals.-Background and Early Career:...

1986 May 18 Cork 3-08 Dublin 1-10 O’Toole Park Marion McCarthy
Marion McCarthy
Marion McCarthy is a former camogie player, winner of the B+I Star of the Year award in 1980. and All Ireland medals in 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1983. She won National League medals in 1984, 1986 and 1991. She is the only player in camogie history to win All Ireland medals as an outfield player and,...

1987 June 7 Kilkenny 4-08 Dublin 1-6 Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland, home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It has two covered stands and two terraces, behind each goalpost. The current capacity of the stadium is approximately 24,000 with a seating capacity of 17,000. Plans have...

Bridie McGarry
Bridie McGarry
Bridie Martin-McGarry from Kilkenny is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of nine All Ireland medals.-Background and Early Career:...

1988 June 12 Kilkenny 3-10 Dublin 2-04 O’Toole Park Angela Downey
Angela Downey
Angela Downey-Browne is a retired Irish sportsperson. She played camogie at various times with her local clubs, St Paul’s camogie club based in Kilkenny city and Lisdowney, and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1970 until 1994...

1989 June 18 Kilkenny 6-7 Cork 1-11 Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland, home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It has two covered stands and two terraces, behind each goalpost. The current capacity of the stadium is approximately 24,000 with a seating capacity of 17,000. Plans have...

Ann Downey
Ann Downey
Ann Downey is a retired camogie player, winner of 12 All Ireland inter-county medals, captaining the team in 1989 and 1994, and seven All-Ireland club medals with St Paul’s and Lisdowney- one more than her famous sister Angela who was suspended for one final.-Family Background:Her father, Shem...

1990 June 10 Kilkenny 1-10 Wexford 2-4 Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy is the second largest town in County Wexford, Ireland. The population of the town and environs is 9538. The Placenames Database of Ireland sheds no light on the origins of the town's name. It may refer either to the "Island of Corthaidh" or the "Island of Rocks". With a history going...

Breda Holmes
Breda Holmes
Breda Holmes is a former camogie player, winner of the B+I Star of the Year award in 1987 and seven All Ireland medals in succession between 1984 and 1991, celebrating the seventh by scoring the match-turning goal from Ann Downey’s sideline ball against Cork in the 1991 final.-Career:She captained...

1991 May 30 Cork 2-13 Kilkenny 2-8 Ballinlough
Ballinlough
Ballinlough could refer to one of the following places in Ireland:*Ballinlough, Cork*Ballinlough, County Meath*Ballinlough, County Roscommon*Ballinlough Castle, County Westmeath...

Therése O'Callaghan
Therése O'Callaghan
Therése O'Callaghan is a camogie player, captain of the winning National Camogie League team in 1991 and again in 1996. She also captained her club Glen Rovers to the All Ireland club championship of 1990.-Career:...

1992 May 14 Cork 2-17 Wexford 0-11 Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy
Enniscorthy is the second largest town in County Wexford, Ireland. The population of the town and environs is 9538. The Placenames Database of Ireland sheds no light on the origins of the town's name. It may refer either to the "Island of Corthaidh" or the "Island of Rocks". With a history going...

Sandie Fitzgibbon
Sandie Fitzgibbon
Sandie Fitzgibbon born in Cork is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of six All Ireland medals in 1982, 1983, 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1997....

1993 June 6 Kilkenny 4-7 Cork 1-13 Ballyragget
Ballyragget
Ballyragget is a small town in County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated along the river Nore in the north of the county. It is located in the province of Leinster in the south-east of the island of Ireland. Ballyragget situated on the N77 north of Kilkenny and has a population of 1,451...

Marina Downey
Marina Downey
Marina Downey is a camogie player, winner of five All Ireland medals, captain of the Kilkenny team that won the National Camogie League in 1993 and the St Paul’s team that won the club championship.-Career:...

1994 June 12 Galway 1-13 Tipperary 1-8 Ballinasloe Deirdre Costello
Deirdre Costello
Deirdre Costello is a former camogie player, winner of an All Ireland senior medal when her county won its first senior success in 1996 and winner of the AIB Gaelic Star award for Camogie Junior Player of the year in 1985.-Award Year:...

1995 June 21 Cork 5-16 Armagh 3-4 St Finbarrs
St. Finbarr's GAA
St. Finbarr's National Hurling and Football Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Togher area of Cork city, County Cork, Ireland....

Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin
Denise Cronin is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1995.-Playing career:She won six All Ireland senior medals in all and 1998.-Management:...

1996 June 2 Cork 3-8 Dublin 1-10 Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn is a stadium in Cork owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association . It was formerly Flower Lodge, a soccer ground home to several Cork teams in the 20th century, named after a Big House on whose grounds it was built.-Flower Lodge:...

Therése O'Callaghan
Therése O'Callaghan
Therése O'Callaghan is a camogie player, captain of the winning National Camogie League team in 1991 and again in 1996. She also captained her club Glen Rovers to the All Ireland club championship of 1990.-Career:...

1997 June 8 Cork 4-12 Kilkenny 0-9 Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn is a stadium in Cork owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association . It was formerly Flower Lodge, a soccer ground home to several Cork teams in the 20th century, named after a Big House on whose grounds it was built.-Flower Lodge:...

Linda Mellerick
Linda Mellerick
Linda Mellerick is a former camogie player selected on the camogie team of the century in 2004, and winner of All Ireland medals in 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002.-Background & Club Career:...

1998 June 15 Cork 1-16 Galway 2-9 Ballinasloe Eithne Duggan
Eithne Duggan
Eithne Duggan is a former camogie player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1998.-Career:She came to prominence with the Bishopstown team that won Cork Senior B honours in 1994 and won All Ireland senior medals in 1995, 1997 1998 and 2002 -External links:* Official...

1999 May 22 Cork 9-19 Tipperary 2-4 Thurles
Thurles
Thurles is a town situated in North Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty and is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly...

Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris is a camogie player a member of Cork's All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2005.-National League:...

2000 May 20 Cork 3-7 Tipperary 1-10 Tullamore
Tullamore
Tullamore is a town in County Offaly, in the midlands of Ireland. It is Offaly's county town and the centre of the district.Tullamore is an important commercial and industrial centre in the region. Major international employers in the town include 'Tyco Healthcare' and 'Boston Scientific'. In...

Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris is a camogie player a member of Cork's All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2005.-National League:...

2001 Oct 27 Cork 6-9 Galway 0-11 Nenagh
Nenagh
Nenagh is the county town of North Tipperary in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of North Tipperary and in 2011 it had a recorded population of 7,995. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Ormond Lower...

Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris
Vivienne Harris is a camogie player a member of Cork's All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1997, 1998, 2002, and 2005.-National League:...

2002 May 24 Galway 4-9 Limerick 1-9 Tullamore
Tullamore
Tullamore is a town in County Offaly, in the midlands of Ireland. It is Offaly's county town and the centre of the district.Tullamore is an important commercial and industrial centre in the region. Major international employers in the town include 'Tyco Healthcare' and 'Boston Scientific'. In...

Louise Curry
2003 May 11 Cork 3-10 Tipperary 2-12 Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn
Páirc Uí Rinn is a stadium in Cork owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association . It was formerly Flower Lodge, a soccer ground home to several Cork teams in the 20th century, named after a Big House on whose grounds it was built.-Flower Lodge:...

Stephanie Dunlea
Stephanie Dunlea
Stephanie Dunlea is a camogie player, winner of a Lynchpin award, predecessor of the All Star awards, in 2003 and of All Ireland medals in 2002 and 2005. She was nominated for the All-Star shortlist in 2004.-Family background:...

2004 May 22 Tipperary 3-10 Wexford 2-9 Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland, home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It has two covered stands and two terraces, behind each goalpost. The current capacity of the stadium is approximately 24,000 with a seating capacity of 17,000. Plans have...

Joanne Ryan
2005 May 29 Galway 1-6 Cork 0-6 Thurles
Thurles
Thurles is a town situated in North Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty and is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly...

Therese Maher
Therese Maher
Therese Maher is a camogie player, winner of four All Star awards in 2005. 2008. 2009 and 2011 a member of the Galway senior panel that unsuccessfully contested the All Ireland finals of 2010 and 2011 against Wexford. She was Galway camogie player of the year 1998 and 2008 and a member of the Team...

2006 May 14 Cork 2-7 Tipperary 2-5 Thurles
Thurles
Thurles is a town situated in North Tipperary, Ireland. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Eliogarty and is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly...

Joanne O'Callaghan
Joanne O'Callaghan
Joanne O'Callaghan born 1983 in Cork is a camogie player and business development representative, winner of All Ireland medals in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009. She captained Cork to the All-Ireland title in 2006 and is in her eighth season on the Senior team...

2007 May 6 Cork 3-8 Wexford 2-10 Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland, home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It has two covered stands and two terraces, behind each goalpost. The current capacity of the stadium is approximately 24,000 with a seating capacity of 17,000. Plans have...

Gemma O’Connor
Gemma O'Connor (camogie player)
Gemma O'Connor born 1985 in Cork is a camogie player and a member of the Irish defence forces, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009 and a camogie All Star award winner in each of the first six years of the scheme, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009...

2008 Apr 26 Kilkenny 3-11 Galway 0-17 Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland, home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It has two covered stands and two terraces, behind each goalpost. The current capacity of the stadium is approximately 24,000 with a seating capacity of 17,000. Plans have...

Marie O'Connor
Marie O'Connor
Marie O'Connor is a camogie player and Garda. She played in the 2009 All Ireland camogie final. Marie is a niece of Bridie McGarry, winner of nine All- Ireland Senior medals and captain of the Kilkenny team that beat Cork in the 1987 final. Marie won a Junior All-Ireland medal in 2002 and added...

2009 Apr 25 Wexford 2-12 Tipperary 0-11 Parnell Park
Parnell Park
Parnell Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Donnycarney, Dublin, Ireland with a capacity of about 11,500. It is the home of the Dublin GAA hurling, football, camogie and ladies' football teams at all levels of competition...

Aoife O'Connor
Aoife O'Connor
Aoife O’Connor is a camogie player, Winner of All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and captain of the Wexford team that won the National Camogie League in 2009 on the week that she married.-Marriage:...

2010
National Camogie League 2010
The 2010 National Camogie League was won by Wexford for the second year in succession.-Summary:The seven teams in the first division were drawn into two groups of four and three. Each team played one another once only. The top two in each group contested the semi-finals...

Apr 24 Wexford 1-7 Kilkenny 1-6 Semple Stadium
Semple Stadium
Semple Stadium, located in Thurles, North Tipperary, Ireland, is the home of hurling for Tipperary GAA and for the province of Munster. It is the second largest stadium in Ireland with a capacity of 53,500....

Una Leacy
Una Leacy
Una Leacy is a camogie player, winner of two All-Star awards in 2007 the year her two early goals helped Wexford win their first All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in 32 years and 2011. She won further All Ireland medals in 2010 and 2011....

2011
National Camogie League 2011
The 2011 National Camogie League was won by Wexford, their third league title in succession. The final was played on April 17 2011 as a curtain raiser to the hurling match between Tipperary and Wexford at Semple Stadium and drew an attendance of 4,180.-Summary:...

Apr 17 Wexford 3-10 Galway 0-10 Semple Stadium
Semple Stadium
Semple Stadium, located in Thurles, North Tipperary, Ireland, is the home of hurling for Tipperary GAA and for the province of Munster. It is the second largest stadium in Ireland with a capacity of 53,500....

4,180 Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob
Ursula Jacob is a camogie player, winner of All Star awards in 2010 and 2011 and All-Ireland Senior medals in 2007, 2010 and 2011, when she scored a dramatic 52nd minute goal which changed the course of the All Ireland final and secured victory for Wexford. She was player of the match in Wexford’s...


Junior National League / Division 2

Dublin All-Ireland medal-holder, Eileen Bourke presented Corn de Búrca for the Junior National League in memory of her sister, Joan who served as secretary of Leinster Colleges Council.
  • 1980 Armagh 2-5 Kildare 2-3
  • 1981 Cavan 0-4 Louth 0-2
  • 1982 Dublin 6-9 Tyrone 0-2
  • 1983 Dublin 3-9 Westmeath 2-5
  • 1984 Dublin 2-4 Armagh 1-3
  • 1985 Galway 3-10 Kildare 3-3
  • 1986 Kildare 2-3 Dublin 1-4
  • 1987 Dublin 6-4 Kildare 1-7
  • 1988 Armagh 1-9 Down 0-6
  • 1989 Kildare 2-14 Armagh 3-8
  • 1990 Kildare 2-13 Kilkenny 1-3
  • 1991 Limerick 3-13 Roscommon 3-4
  • 1992 Limerick 4-13 Down 2-6
  • 1993 Armagh 3-8 Dublin 2-1
  • 1994 Armagh 1-18 Cork 1-2
  • 1995 Galway 4-13 Down 2-9
  • 1996 Limerick 5-10 Down 3-7
  • 1997 Antrim 5-12 Down 3-16
  • 1998 Down 0-20 Cork 0-12
  • 1999 Derry 3-7 Wexford 0-7
  • 2000 Cork 3-9 Laois 1-5
  • 2001 Cork 3-14 Derry 4-3
  • 2002 Offaly 3-18 Laois 2-6
  • 2003 Galway 2-10 Armagh 1-8
  • 2004 Kildare 2-11 Laois 2-6
  • 2005 Cork 2-10 Galway 2-7
  • 2006 Kilkenny 2-8 Dublin 2-7
  • 2007 Limerick 1-14 Cork 0-5
  • 2008 Clare 4-8 Derry 3-9
  • 2009 Wexford 2-9 Antrim 0-11
  • 2010 Wexford 2-9 Offaly 1-9
  • 2011 Waterford 0-16 Antrim 2-9

Division 3

  • 2006 Clare 1-14 Derry 3-7
  • 2007 Waterford 1-18 Down 2-13
  • 2008 Antrim 1-10 Offaly 1-10
  • Replay Antrim 6-11 Offaly 3-7
  • 2009 Down 0-15 Laois 2-8
  • 2010 Laois 2-10 Meath 2-5
  • 2011  Meath 3-9 Kildare 2-11

Division 4

  • 2008 Meath 5-7 Roscommon 1-5
  • 2009 Kildare 3-7 Westmeath 1-10
  • 2010 Tyrone 3-12 Westmeath 1-9
  • 2011  Westmeath 4-6 Cavan 2-7

Division 5

Division 5 was run as a one-day blitz competition. It was discontinued in 2010 with the introduction of a championship structure for the
All Ireland Junior B grade (Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup).
  • 2008 Tyrone 2-4 Cavan 1-3
  • 2009 Wicklow 2-7 Monaghan 1-1
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