The 2000 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Foras na Gaeilge (formerly Bórd na Gaeilge) All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2000 season. The championship was won by Tipperary who achieved a second successive title beating Cork by a five-point margin in the final. The attendance was 12,880, second highest in the history of the sport of camogie at that time. 978-1-908591-00-5
Birth of a rivalry This and subsequent finals between the two counties was a high point in a period of rapid growth in the popularity of the sport of camogie which quadrupled the average attendance at its finals in a ten-year period. “It was unquestionably a day on which the profile of the game soared and many players produced moments of individual brilliance.,” Pat Roche wrote in the Irish Times.2000 All Ireland final report in Irish Times
Early rounds Cork beat Kilkenny by 2-10 to 1-12 in the quarter-finals, Tipperary beat Clare 4-15 to 0-5, Galway beat Limerick 4-13 to 1-8 and Wexford beat Dublin 4-12 to 0-6. Cork easily defeated Wexford keeping them scoreless until just before the half-time whistle, in the semi-final. A goal by Noelle Kennedy proved to be the turning point of the second semi-final in which Tipperary beat Galway 2-11 to 1-8.
Final Unusually Tipperary were favourites for the final.Preview in Irish Independent By the 17th minute they led by 2-4 to 0-2. Deirdre Hughes was quickly on to a sideline cut by Emily Hayden before netting off a post for the opening goal after four minutes. Within two minutes she palmed the ball to the Cork net to finish off an astute centre from the 14-year-old Claire Grogan. Cork's goal in reply came too late from Una O'Donoghue.
Final stages
TIPPERARY: GK 1 Jovita Delaney (Cashel) (Capt) RCB 2 Suzanne Kelly (Toomevara)FB 3 Una O'Dwyer (Cashel)LCB 4 Claire Madden (Portroe)RWB 5 Sinéad Nealon (Burgess)CB 6 Ciara Gaynor (Burgess) (0-1)LWB 7 Therese Brophy (Burgess)MF 8 Emily Hayden (Cashel)MF 9 Angela McDermott (Cappawhite)RWF 10 Philly Fogarty (Cashel) (0-1) CF 11 Noelle Kennedy (Toomevara)LWF 12 Caitríona Hennessy (Cashel) (0-4) RCF 13 Eimear McDonnell (Burgess) (0-2) FF 14 Deirdre Hughes (Toomevara) (2-2) LCF 15 Claire Grogan (Cashel) (0-2) CORK: GK 1 Cora Keohane (Barryroe)RCB 2 Denise Cronin (Glen Rovers) (0-1) FB 3 Eithne Duggan (Bishopstown)LCB 4 Mags Finn (Fr O'Neill’s)RWB 5 Sarah Hayes (Rockbán)CB 6 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh)LWB 7 Vivienne Harris (Bishopstown) (Capt) MF 8 Ursula Troy (Newtownshandrum)MF 9 Linda Mellerick (Glen Rovers)RWF 10 Sinéad O'Callaghan (Ballinhassig) (0-2) CF 11 Fiona O'Driscoll (Fr O'Neill’s) (0-4) LWF 12 Caoimhe Harrington (Newtownshandrum) RCF 13 Elaine Burke (Valley Rovers) (0-1) FF 14 Ciara Healy (Bishopstown)LCF 15 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) (1-1) Substitutes: MF Paula O'Connor (Newtownshandrum) for Burke FF Mary Burke for Harrington
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