Sue Cashman 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, winner of Caltex Player of the Year award in 1967, only the second of five camogie players in history to be awarded what would later become known as the Texaco Award. and an All Ireland medal in 1967 when she was captain, play-maker and player of the match in Antrim’s defeat of Dublin.

Career

She was among ten Antrim players who won the Gael Linn Cup

Gael Linn Cup

The Gael Linn Cup is a bi-ennial tournament in the Irish sport of camogie contested by Ireland’s fuur provincial teams. Currently played at senior and junior level on alternate years. The tournament has existed in various guides since 1956, is played at senior and junior level on alternate years...

 for Ulster for the first time. She retired after Antrim were beaten by Cork in the 1973 All Ireland final, in which she scored a point. She played on the Deirdre

Deirdre Camogie Club

Deirdre is a camogie club that played in the first two finals of the All Ireland club championship although without success.It was founded in 1929 forming the Senior Camogie league in South Antrim with Ardoyne, Gaedhil Uladh McKelvey's, O'Connell's and St Mary's Training college.They won their...

 teams defeated in the 1964 and 1965 All Ireland club finals

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship

The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is the most important competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta.-Trophy:...

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