Alice Hussey

Éilís Hussey
Personal information
Irish name Éilís Ní hEosa
Sport Camogie
Position position
Born Galway, Ireland
Club(s)*
Years Club Apps (scores)
 Athenry ? (? - ?)
* club appearances and scores correct as of (16:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)).

Éilís Hussey is a former Camogie player[1] who winner six club championship winner and runners-up medals at various grades with Athenry and twice the club's player of the season award.

Career

The TD Tom Hussey is a relative.

She first played for Athenry in the unofficial Connaht junior club championship in its inaugural year, eventually ascending through the ranks to win intermediate winners and runners-up medals in '69, '71, '73, '75, '76, '77.[2] ’77 was the big one. It was when Athenry won the Senior Club All Ireland. She was a substitute for that.[3] She retired in ’81. With the club too, she was runner-up at the inaugural All Ireland Intermediate club championship. She won Co. championship medals with the club in ’75, ’76, ’77, ’78 and again in ’79 and numerous individual medals for her audacious work rate throughout that time.

References

  1. ^ "Camogie Archive". Camogie.ie. 30 June 2010. Archived from the original on 28 January 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2010.
  2. ^ Statistics. Various match reports.
  3. ^ Irish Independent Irish Newspaper archive Archived 2013-01-15 at the Wayback Machine March 1978 Page 25: Athenry's All Ireland match report
  • Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website
  • Wikipedia List of Camogie players


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