Gemma O'Connor (camogie)
Appearance
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Gemma Ní Chonchúir | ||
Sport | Camogie | ||
Position | Half-back, midfield, half-forward | ||
Born |
1985 (age 38–39) Cork, Ireland | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
St Finbarr's | |||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2002–2020 | Cork | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
All-Irelands | 9 | ||
All Stars | 11 |
Gemma O'Connor (born 1985) is a camogie player. She is the most decorated player in the sport.[1]
Born in
Team of the Championship
for 2011.
Career
O'Connor captained the Cork senior team in 2007 and 2019, and is the holder of All-Ireland Minor and Senior Championship honours along with National League Senior and Junior medals. She represented Cork in the Féile na nGael skills in 1998 and was camogie player of the year in 2005 and 2015, as well as winning one county senior camogie championship title.[2]
Personal life
O'Connor's brother,
All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling Championship title.[3] In her autobiography, Why not a Warrior (written with Sinead Farrell), O'Connor stated that she met her wife Aoife, a teacher, in 2012 as a result of O'Connor playing association football for Knockavilla Celtic in West Cork, around thirty minutes from where she lived (Knockavilla's manager was Aoife's father).[1]
O'Connor is a soldier in the Irish Army.[1]
References
- ^ a b c O'Connor, Gemma (30 October 2022). "'It's exhausting to live in fear, worrying that someone might figure you out ... every day'". Sunday Independent.
I sleep soundly the night before our wedding, and she can't get a wink.
- The42.ie. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Finalprogramme.
External links
- Video highlights of 2009 championship Part One on YouTube
- Video Highlights of 2009 All Ireland Senior Final on YouTube
- Report of All-Ireland final in Independent and Examiner