The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—is the high point of the 2010 season in the sport of camogie. It commenced on June 13, 2010, and ended with the final between Galway and Wexford on 12 September 2010 which Wexford won by 1-12 to 1-10. Seven teams compete in the Senior Championship out of twenty-seven who competed overall in the Senior, Intermediate and Junior Championships. 2010 All-Ireland Final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent and Irish Independent match at a glance, Irish Times colour piece and match report, comment by Tom Humphries and Mary Hannigan, RTÉ online , Irish Times online and RTÉ online match-tracker
Structure The seven teams played one another once, and received 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw. The top four teams then contested the semi-finals, in which both 2009 finalists were defeated, defending champions Cork by Galway by one point in a replay and 2009 finalists Kilkenny by National Camogie League 2010 champions Wexford.
Finals For the first time since 2006 the finals did not share a billing with the All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship. Instead the All Ireland Senior, Intermediate, and Junior championship finals were held on the same day.
Galway Anomaly When Galway beat Wexford 1-8 to 0-10 in the group stages only to lose the final 1-12 to 1-10, it was the third time in the five years since the championship moved from a knockout system to a round-robin format in 2006 that the runners-up defeated the eventual champions in the group stages.
Fixtures
Group stage
Cross table
TeamClCoDGKTWPtsClare - 0 2 0 0 0 0 2Cork 2 - 2 0 0 2 2 8Dublin0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0Galway 2 2 2 - 0 2 2 10Kilkenny2 2 2 2 - 2 0 10Tipperary2 0 2 0 0 - 0 4Wexford 2 0 2 0 2 2 - 8
Table
TeamPldWDLFADiffPtsKilkenny6 5 0 1 13–89 7–69 +4510Galway6 5 0 1 9–84 6–58+3510Wexford6 4 0 2 14–89 4-50+698Cork6 4 0 2 8-86 3-68+33 8Tipperary6 2 0 4 11-81 7-85+8 4Clare6 1 0 5 5-69 10-85-41 2Dublin6 0 0 6 3-35 25-118-149 0
Final stages
WEXFORD: GK 1 Mags D'Arcy (St Martin's)RCB 2 Claire O'Connor (Rathnure)FB 3 Catherine O'Loughlin (Monageer-Boolavogue)LCB 4 Karen Atkinson (Oulart-The Ballagh) RWB 5 Noeleen Lambert (St Martin's)CB 6 Mary Leacy (Oulart-The Ballagh)LWB 7 Aoife O'Connor (Rathnure)MF 8 Deirdre Codd (Duffry Rovers) MF 9 Caroline Murphy (Ferns)RWF 10 Kate Kelly (St Ibar’s) 0-2CF 11 Una Leacy (Oulart-The Ballagh) 0-1LWF 12 Michelle O'Leary (Rathnure) 0-1RCF 13Katrina Parrock (St Ibar’s) 1-2FF 14 Ursula Jacob (Oulart-The Ballagh) 0-6LCF 15 Josie Dwyer Ferns}Substitutes:LCB Ciara Storey (Oulart-The Ballagh) for Karen Atkinson MF Lenny Holohan (Rathnure) for Deirdre Codd Galway: GK 1 Susan Earner (Meelick Eyrecourt)RCB 2 Sandra Tannian (St Thomas )FB 3 Sarah Dervan (Mullagh)LCB 4 Regina Glynn (Athenry)RWB 5 Niamh Kilkenny (Pearses )CB 6 Ann Marie Hayes (Killimor)LWB 7 Therese Manton (Mullagh)MF 8 Brenda Hanney (Killimor)MF 9 Orla Kilkenny (Pearses ) 0-1RWF 10 Caroline Murray (St Thomas )CF 11 Therese Maher (Captain) (Athenry)LWF 12 Aislinn Connolly (Castlegar) 1-6RCF 13 Tara Ruttledge (Portumna) FF 14 Jessica Gill (Athenry) 0-1LCF 15 Veronica Curtin (Kinvara ) 0-1Substitutes:RWF Lorraine Ryan (Killimordaly) for Caroline Murray RCF Emma Kilkelly (Kinvara ) for Tara Ruttledge 0-1LWB Heather Cooney (St Thomas ) for Therese Manton FF Niamh McGrath (Sarsfields ) for Jessica GillMF Aoife Lynskey (Ardrahan) for Orla Kilkenny MATCH RULES 60 minutes Replay if scores level Maximum of 5 substitutions
Gala Performance awards 2010
Gemma O'Connor Cork Brenda Hanney Galway Anna Geary Cork Aoife O'Connor Cork
Gala All-Ireland Final Player of the Match
Katrina Parrock Wexford
Championship statistics
Scoring
Championship including final stage Top Scorer Aislinn Connolly Galway 6–58 Widest winning margin: 43 points Wexford 7–15 : 0–3 DublinA record for the larger style pitch adopted in 1999, Kilkenny scored 16-32 against Clare in 1989 and 9-20 against Clare in 1992, both scores on a smaller pitch and goalmouth. Most goals in a match: 7 Wexford 7–15 : 0–3 Dublin Most points in a match: 31 Cork 1-16 : 1-15 Tipperary Wexford 2-17 : 0-14 Tipperary Most goals by one team in a match: 7 Wexford 7-15 : 0-3 Dublin Most points by one team in a match: 23 Cork 1-23 : 1-6 Dublin
References
External links Official match programme for 2010 All Ireland camogie final Camogie Association