The 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2008 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a five-point margin in the final. 978-1-908591-00-52008 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times and Reaction in Irish Examiner The championship was played between June 1 and September 14, 2008. The format was as follows: seven county teams entered. Each team played all of the others once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top four teams qualified for the semi-finals.
Group stages Substitute Lourda Kavanagh’s late goal helped Galway to a surprise against Cork in the group stages by 1–9 to 0–8 at Páirc Ui Rinn. Cork went on to gain revenge when the same teams med again in the All-Ireland final, the second time a group result had been reversed in the final in the three years since the round-robin format was introduced into the championship in 2006.
Results
Group stage The cross table below summarises the group stages, which were played from June 1 to August 3, 2008. Away results are italicised. TeamCGWTKDLPtsCork - 0 22 2 2 210Galway2 - 2 1 0 2 29Wexford0 0 - 2 2 2 28Tipperary0 1 0 - 2 2 27Kilkenny0 2 0 0 - 2 26Dublin0 0 0 00 - 22Limerick0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0
Final stages
CORK: GK 1 Aoife Murray (Cloughduv) RCB 2 Linda O'Connell (St Finbarr's) FB 3 Cathriona Foley ( Rockbán ) (captain)LCB 4 Joanne Callaghan (Cloughduv) RWB 5 Gemma O'Connor (St Finbarr's) CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) LWB 7 Sarah Hayes (Courcey Rovers) MF 8 Orla Cotter (St Catherine’s) 0-1MF 9 Briege Corkery (Cloughduv) 0-1RWF 10 Amanda Regan (Douglas) CF 11 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) LWF 12 Emer O'Sullivan (Ballinhassig) 0-1RCF 13 Sile Burns ( Rockbán ) (captain) 2-0FF 14 Rachel Maloney (Courcey Rovers) 0-7LCF 15 Elaine Riordan (Milford) Substitutes: LCF Emer Farrell (Sarsfields) for O'Riordan CF Rena Buckley (Inniscarra) for O'Donoghue RWF Linda Dorgan (Inniscarra) for O'Regan GALWAY: GK 1 Susan Earner (Meelick Eyrecourt)RCB 2 Sandra Tannian (St Thomas)FB 3 Aibhe Kelly (Davitts)LCB 4 Therese Manton (Mullagh) RWB 5 Ann Marie Hayes (Killimor) CB 6 Sinéad Cahalan (Mullagh) (captain)LWB 7 Niamh Kilkenny (Pearses)MF 8 Aine Hillary (Pearses) 1-0MF 9 Sarah Noone (Ahascragh-Caltra ) RWF 10 Molly Dunne (Meelick Eyrecourt) CF 11 Therese Maher (Athenry) LWF 12 Veronica Curtin (Kinvara ) RCF 13 Orla Kilkenny (Pearses) FF 14 Jessica Gill (Athenry) LCF 15 Brenda Kerins (Ardrahan) Substitutes: RWF Lourda Kavanagh (Davitts) for Dunne MF Catriona Cormican (Cappataggle for Noone LCF Deirdre Burke (Meelick Eyrecourt) for Kerins
References
External links Reports of 2008 All Ireland final in Independent, Irish Times Examiner, Reaction in Examiner Video highlights of 2008 championship Part One, Part Two and Part three Video of 2008 All Ireland finals preview Video of 2008 All Ireland semi-final Wexford v Galway Results on camogie.ie (MS Excel document) Official Camogie Website Review of championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine