1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship
# 1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

The 1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was won by Cork, beating Dublin by a two-point margin in the final.

## Arrangement

A record eleven counties participated in the championship, the highest number since the separation of senior and junior championships in 1968. Antrim withdrew from the championship and gave a walkover to Cork in their tie scheduled for June 19. Tipperary surprised fancied Galway in the quarter-final.

## Final

Claire Kelleher scored the clinching goal for Cork five minutes from the end, carrying the ball round the hitherto impenetrable Dublin defence without having the ball tapped off her stick. That score left two points between the sides and although Dublin used all their resources they could not break down the resolute Cork defence. Cork shot a surfeit of wides in the first half and did not get their first score until the 12th minute, when Dublin were three points up. Val Fitzpatrick then hit a cracking shot which Yvonne Redmond could not hold to make it 1–1 to 0-3 and Mary Geaney went on to give Cork the lead for the first time.

### Final stages

| Cork | Dublin |
| - | - |

CORK: :

| GK | 1 | Marion McCarthy (Éire Óg) |
| - | - | - |
| FB | 2 | Eileen Dineen (Éire Óg) |
| RWB | 3 | Miriam Higgins (Éire Óg) |
| CB | 4 | Cathy Landers (Killeagh) (Capt) |
| LWB | 5 | Martha Kearney |
| MF | 6 | Clare Cronin (Old Als) |
| MF | 7 | Marion Sweeney 33' |
| MF | 8 | Sandie Fitzgibbon (Glen Rovers) |
| RWF | 9 | Mary O'Leary (Watergrasshill) (0-4) |
| CF | 10 | Val Fitzpatrick (Glen Rovers) (1-0) |
| LWF | 11 | Claire Kelleher (1-0) |
| FF | 12 | Mary Geaney (Éire Óg) (0-1) |
| Substitutes: ||||
| MF | | Ger McCarthy (Glen Rovers) for Sweeney 33' |

DUBLIN: :

| GK | 1 | Yvonne Redmond (Cúchulainn Crumlin) |
| - | - | - |
| FB | 2 | Anne O'Brien (Cúchulainn Crumlin) |
| RWB | 3 | Catherine Ledwidge (Phoenix) |
| CB | 4 | Bernie Toner (Cuala Naomh Mhuire) |
| LWB | 5 | Germaine Noonan (UCD) |
| MF | 6 | Una Crowley (Celtic) (Capt) 35' |
| MF | 7 | Edel Murphy (UCD) (0-4) |
| MF | 8 | Barbara Redmond (Cúchulainn Crumlin) |
| RWF | 9 | Anna Condon (Austin Stacks) |
| CF | 10 | Mary Mernagh (Cuala Naomh Mhuire) (1-0) |
| LWF | 11 | Marion Conroy (Austin Stacks) (Capt) (0-2) |
| FF | 12 | Joan Gormley (UCD) |
| Substitutes: ||||
| LWF | | Anne Thorpe (An Caisleán Walkinstown) for Crowley 35' 40' |
| RWF | | Ann Colgan (Celtic) for Thorpe 40' |

MATCH RULES

* 50 minutes
* Replay if scores level
* Maximum of 3 substitutions
