Renee Fitzgerald is a former 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....

 player, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1939, scoring four of Cork’s six goals in the final.

Career

She won a further All Ireland senior medal in 1940, scoring two goals in Cork’s 4-1 to 2-2 defeat of Galway. She scored a goal and had another controversially disallowed in Cork’s 1942 All Ireland final draw against Dublin, before Cork lost the replay. She reportedly scored six goals in Cork’s 11-4 to 1-0 defeat of Limerick in the 1942 Munster final.

External links

• Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website

Wikipedia List of Camogie players