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Pat Hickey is on his way home to Ireland.

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• Former Tyrone footballer Brian McGuigan has called time on his club career with a view to pursuing management. 
• Former OCI President Pat Hickey is now on his way home to Ireland from Brazil.
• Ulster football and hurling champions Slaughtneil, are appealing to the GAA for measures to be taken on the fixture schedule ahead of the All-Ireland club semi-finals next year.
• Irish track cyclist Caroline Ryan, has announced her retirement.
• Former Dublin footballer Dessie Farrell says that stepping down from the GPA does not mean he has any immediate desire to enter senior inter-county management.

Away

Tiger Woods in action at the Hero World Challenge golf tournament.

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• Tiger Woods has signed a multi-year deal with Bridgestone Golf to play and promote their golf balls.
• Cristiano Ronaldo achieved a milestone feat with his 500th career goal in the Club World Cup semi-final.
• Former Manchester United player Rio Ferdinand has made a donation of £500,000 worth of toys to charity as well as a donation of 11,500 sleeping bags to the homeless community in Manchester.
• Northampton Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder says that Dylan Hartley has let the club down after he received a six-week ban for striking Leinster’s Sean O’Brien.
• Luis Suarez has signed a new contract with Barcelona which contains a €200 million release clause.

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On The Record

Chris Fields of SBG Gym.

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Chris Fields of Straight Blast Gym is predicting a victory tomorrow night in a light-heavyweight title bout at BAMMA 27 in the 3Arena.

I feel the pressure is off. I’m just enjoying training and improving my skills. I feel like my game has kicked on massively. These are all clichés but the people around me have been saying it to me. I think I’m just happy. And a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter. It’s going to be such a special night because I’m going to be Ireland’s first ever BAMMA champion. That’s huge.”

Where We Were Today

The Aviva Stadium.

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Ben Blake attended the FAI Brand Review event at the Aviva Stadium.

The Fixture List

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Ireland will have some representatives fighting at Bellator 169/BAMMA 27 tomorrow night, including SBG’s Sinead Kavanagh, Dylan Tuke and Chris Fields. 

Showbiz, Baby!

Former Cork hurling boss Dónal O’Grady explores the origins of the red jersey in Cork GAA in this new TG4 documentary which will be aired on St Stephen’s day.

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DEFENDING CHAMPIONS ÁRDSCOIL Rís of Limerick are set to face Cork’s Midleton CBS, as the quarter-final draw for the Dr Harty Cup was made this evening.

Tipperary All-Ireland minor winning captain Brian McGrath

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2015 champions Thurles CBS will face fellow Tipperary school Our Ladys Templemore, after they overcame Abbey CBS in an all-Tipp second round clash last night to qualify for the next stage of the competition.

2007 and 2008 victors De La Salle Waterford have drawn Nenagh CBS, while Cork sides Christian Brothers College and St Colemans will play off for a semi final spot.

Árdscoil Rís.

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The quarter finals are scheduled for 11 January 2017.

The football-equivalent competition, Corn Ui Mhuiri saw the quarter-final draw also made this evening.

Reigning champions St Brendan’s Killarney found themselves drawn against four-time winners Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne.

David Clifford will be a key man for St Brendan’s

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Tralee CBS drew IS Killoglin, Clare side St Flannan’s will face Mercy Mounthawk and Col Chriost Rí saw themselves paired with St Francis College Rochestown.

The Corn Ui Mhuiri quarter-finals are due to take place on Wednesday 18 January.

Both draws in full:

Dr. Harty Cup Quarter-Final Draw

A. Thurles CBS V Our Ladys Templemore

B. DLS Waterford V Nenagh CBS

C. Ardscoil Ris V Midleton CBS

D. CBC Cork V St Colmans

The winner of fixture A will face the winner of fixture B in the semi-final.

The winner of fixture C will face the winner of fixture D in the semi-final.

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Corn Ui Mhuiri Quarter-Final Draw

A. Col Chriost Rí V St Francis College Rochestown

B. Tralee CBS V IS Killorglin

C. St Flannans V Mercy Mounthawk

D. PS Chorcha Dhuibhne V St Brendans

The winner of fixture A will face the winner of fixture B in the semi-final.

The winner of fixture C will face the winner of fixture D in the semi-final.

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Munster 2-20
Leinster 2-16

By Jackie Cahill at Semple Stadium, Thurles

Munster’s Paraic Maher celebrates with Dan McCormack after the game.

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AARON SHANAGHER’S LATE goal sealed victory for Anthony Daly’s Munster in this evening’s GAA Interprovincial hurling final at Semple Stadium, in front of 592 spectators.

Rising Clare star Shanagher was introduced as a sub ten minutes from time and he bagged a 59^th minute goal to clinch a 46^th competition win for the province.

Leinster, champions in 2014, were five points ahead on three occasions in the second half but Munster reeled them in to clinch a first crown since 2013.

Having drawn level at 1-14 apiece, when Clare’s David Reidy netted midway through the second half, Munster were rocked by the concession of a goal from Leinster’s next attack, Wexford’s Lee Chin on target as the sides traded goals within a minute.

Munster’s John O’Dwyer with Sean Ryan of Leinster.

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But there was life left in Munster as they emptied the bench and Cork’s Alan Cadogan made a big impact in the second half – knifing three points from play – as Limerick’s Barry Nash chipped in with a brace.

Indeed, Munster hit 1-5 without reply in the closing minutes to run out deserved winners.

With the sides deadlocked late on, Waterford’s Stephen Bennett landed the lead score from five minutes from time before Shanagher’s goal sealed it.

Leinster were 1-11 to 0-10 clear at half-time, having fallen four points down in the early exchanges.

Reid was Leinster’s leading light in the opening half, hitting 1-2 of his 1-4 from play, as Kilkenny team-mate Walter Walsh and Laois man Charles Dwyer picked off two points each.

Seamus Callanan had two early points as Munster surged into a 0-4 to 0-0 advantage within seven minutes but Leinster, with Reid prominent, worked their way back into contention and were level at 0-6 apiece midway through the half.

A pair of Dan McCormack points gave Munster some breathing space again but a run of 1-3 without reply from Leinster, playing without suspended Colin Fennelly and concussed Ryan O’Dwyer, put them in the ascendancy.

Reid’s goal arrived five minutes before half-time as he cut in from the left touchline before firing in a shot that squirted beneath Darren Gleeson and into the Killinan End net.

Brendan Maher lifted the cup.

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Reid added a free and Leinster were four points clear – 1-10 to 0-9 – before Callanan (free) and Dwyer traded points before the break.

But Munster were unlucky not to raise a green flag of their own in the first half when Clare’s David Reidy scorched a shot off James Dempsey’s crossbar in the 13th minute, with Callanan on hand to pick up the pieces for a point.

Leinster opened the second half impressively but after being reeled in by Reidy’s 45th minute goal, Chin replied in kind for Leinster.

Munster had big contributions from the subs bench, however, and that proved crucial with the game in the melting pot late on.

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Scorers for Munster: Seamus Callanan 0-7 (4f, 1 65), David Reidy 1-2, Aaron Shanagher 1-0, Alan Cadogan 0-3, Dan McCormack & Barry Nash 0-2 each, Diarmaid Byrnes, Jamie Barron, Michael Breen & Stephen Bennett 0-1 each.

Scorers for Leinster: TJ Reid 1-6 (0-4f), Lee Chin 1-1, Walter Walsh 0-4, Cha Dwyer & Gerry Keegan 0-2 each, Shane Dooley 0-1.

Munster

16. Darren Gleeson (Tipperary)

17. Barry Coughlan (Waterford)
3. James Barry (Tipperary)
4. Noel Connors (Waterford)

5. Diarmaid Byrnes (Limerick)
6. Cian Dillon (Clare)
19. Pádraic Maher (Tipperary)

8. Brendan Maher (Tipperary)
9. Jamie Barron (Waterford)

22. Dan McCormack (Tipperary)
20. Michael Breen (Tipperary)
25. Shane Bennett (Waterford)

13. John O’Dwyer (Tipperary)
14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
21. David Reidy (Clare)

Subs:

12. Noel McGrath (Tipperary) for Shane Bennett (h.t.)
26. Alan Cadogan (Cork) for B Maher (h.t.)
24. Barry Nash (Limerick) for McCormack (h.t.)
27. Aaron Shanagher (Clare) for Breen (50)
10. Shane Dowling (Limerick) for O’Dwyer (50)
15. Stephen Bennett (Waterford) for Barron (51)
2. Shane Fives (Waterford) for Coughlan (55)
7. Tom Murnane (Kerry) for Dillon (55)
23. Cian Lynch (Limerick) for Callanan (60+1)

Leinster

16. James Dempsey (Offaly)

26. Matthew Whelan (Laois)
3. Tommy Doyle (Westmeath)
4. Liam Ryan (Wexford)

5. Pádraig Walsh (Kilkenny)
6. Kieran Joyce (Kilkenny)
7. Chris Crummey (Dublin)

8. Conor Fogarty (Kilkenny)
9. Sean Ryan (Offaly)

10. Walter Walsh (Kilkenny)
11. Lee Chin (Wexford)
12. Charles Dwyer (Laois)

13. Shane Dooley (Offaly)
14. TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
22. Gerry Keegan (Kildare)

Subs:

21. Martin Kavanagh (Carlow) for Dooley (27)
25. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny) for Keegan (h.t.)
22. Gerry Keegan for S Ryan (46)

Referee: Alan Kelly (Galway)

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12 NOMINEES FROM across a wide-range of sports are in the hunt to pick up the RTÉ Sports Person of the Year award.

The winner, which has been chosen by a public vote, will be announced on 17 December when the RTÉ Sport Awards take place.

All-Ireland winners Seamus Callanan, Brian Fenton, Denise Gaule and Bríd Stack have all been nominated from GAA, while world champion boxer Carl Frampton and MMA fighter Conor McGregor are also in the running.

Olympic and Paralympic heroes Annalise Murphy, Paul O’Donovan, Katie George Dunlevy and Eve McCrystal, and Eoghan Clifford are all nominated too.

World Rugby Player of the Year nominee Jamie Heaslip completes the shortlist.

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The Na Piarsaigh and Patrickswell players before the 2015 county senior hurling final

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THE REIGNING ALL-Ireland senior club hurling champions have been pitted in the same group as the current county kingpins in next year’s Limerick senior hurling championship.

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The draws were made for the 2017 group stages last night with Na Piarsaigh – All-Ireland winners on St Patrick’s Day last year – in the same group as Patrickswell – winners of the 2016 Limerick title in October.

The two sides faced each other in the 2015 Limerick decider with Na Piarsaigh winning narrowly by 1-22 to 4-12.

Na Piarsaigh won the All-Ireland club title last March

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Patrickswell lifted the Limerick senior hurling crown in October

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The pair of heavyweights are in Group 2 that also features Adare – three-in-a-row winners between 2007 and 2009 – and this year’s intermediate victors Monaleen.

2015 All-Ireland club finalists Kilmallock head up Group 1 along with Ballybrown, this year’s defeated finalists.

Limerick SHC

Group 1

• Ballybrown
• Kilmallock
• South Liberties
• Bruff
• Doon
• Ahane

Group 2

• Patrickswell
• Adare
• Knockainey
• Monaleen
• Cappamore
• Na Piarsaigh

Monaleen’s Ger Collins and Drom-Broadford’s Bryan Hannigan in the Limerick senior football final

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In the Limerick senior football championship, this year’s finalists Monaleen and Drom-Broadford are both drawn in Group 1. Monaleen triumphed by 2-14 to 1-11 in October’s final clash at the Gaelic Grounds.

In Group 2, 2014 champions Ballylanders and 2015 victors Newcastlewest are both included.

Limerick SFC

Group 1

• Drom-Broadford
• Na Piarsaigh
• Adare
• Fr Caseys
• Monaleen
• Rathkeale

Group 2

• Newcastlewest
• St Patrick’s
• Ballysteen
• Oola
• St Kieran’s
• Ballylanders

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McGeeney and O’Rourke claimed an All-Ireland title together in 2002.

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KIERAN MCGEENEY WILL need a new assistant manager in 2017 after Aidan O’Rourke has stepped away from the role with Armagh.

O’Rourke has cited ‘pressures of time’ for his reason for departing from the position.

“I wouldn’t be devoting the time that the players would be devoting and therefore I feel the best thing is moving aside to get somebody in who can give it more time and attention,” O’Rourke told The Irish News today.

McGeeney and O’Rourke have shared plenty Gaelic football experiences together, both playing in the half-back line when Armagh won their first ever All-Ireland senior football title in 2002.

Kieran McGeeney lifts Sam Maguire in 2002

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When McGeeney was Kildare manager, he brought O’Rourke on board as part of his backroom team for the 2010 and 2011 campaigns, when Kildare reached the All-Ireland semi-final and quarter-final respectively.

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McGeeney and O’Rourke previously worked together in Kildare

O’Rourke later managed the Louth senior footballers and came up against McGeeney in 2013 when Kildare defeated the Wee County by 1-19 to 0-15 in a qualifier tie.

McGeeney and O’Rourke after a 2013 All-Ireland qualifier

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Armagh exited the Ulster championship this summer with a defeat against Cavan before losing in the All-Ireland qualifiers to Laois.

In the 2017 Ulster championship, Armagh have been drawn against neighbours Down.

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WEDNESDAY OF LAST week in a Dublin hotel and it’s the business end of the Philips Sports Manager of the Year Awards lunch. The gathered worthies of Irish sport have just polished off their desserts when Minister of Sport Patrick O’Donovan is ushered onto the stage.

“I’m sorry I’m late,” says O’Donovan, boyish, rosy-cheeked and nervous. “I’ve been detained at Leinster House. This thing called New Politics!”

A polite laugh.

“Christ, they’ve sent the work experience kid,” someone mutters.

***

O’Donovan might have looked out on the almost totally male audience for his speech and concluded he was on the right track with his plan to shake things up a bit in Irish sport. He certainly would have empathised with outsiders forced to prove themselves to bunches of sceptical blokes in suits.

On Monday, soon after he announced his proposal to link state funding to a minimum presence of women on the boards of sports bodies, came the usual objection to quotas: Shouldn’t positions be filled by the best person for the job?

“It should be a natural process,” Dublin GAA County Board chairman Seán Shanley told the Irish Independent. “As they say, the cream will come to the top.”

Of course, O’Donovan’s first gig as a minister was to bear witness to this summer’s Olympics, that triumph of Irish sporting administration, when, among other calamities, the Irish Olympic movement’s best person for the job found himself unavoidably detained by the Rio constabulary. No wonder he might have had his doubts about the cream coming to the top.

Questions were also asked about whether this was the right medicine for the ailment. Will young girls be inspired to take up and continue playing sport in greater numbers just because they share a gender with 30% of the ruling classes?

I think back: was my own childish love of sport inspired by stellar figures of Irish sports administration? Did I have posters of Liam Mulvihill on the bedroom wall? Or Syd Millar? Or Peadar ‘Big Dinner’ O’Driscoll of the FAI?

But the general tone of those who welcomed O’Donovan’s plan was that this was a nudge in the right direction. Quotas work. They are like vaccines: they introduce a small dose of something unpleasant, in this case unfairness, to inoculate the system against a greater disease.

If you were being hard on O’Donovan you’d label this a classic piece of neoliberal trickle-down policy, legislating from the top down rather than the bottom up. Wouldn’t he be better off throwing some cash at coaching and facilities, and figuring out why there is a huge drop off in female participation after the age of 16?

But given that gender equality is at its strongest in Olympic sports – where those running them know the value of a medal is the same for men and women – then forcing structural changes at the top level in other sports is a pretty sensible idea.

Things have definitely improved in the big team sports from less than two decades ago when women were virtually invisible. At least now most people can name Irish women rugby, soccer and Gaelic players. But as the male wings of the major sports continue to dominate public attention, genuine equality still seems well out of reach.

The fact is that women’s sport has come a long way, but it still has about a century to go.

Remember that most of the major sports were organised and codified by Victorian schoolmasters, puritanical figures with the key aims of preparing boys for war and stopping them from playing with themselves.

These sports became popular with male industrial and agricultural workers, enjoying the new-found phenomenon of leisure time. Women weren’t granted this luxury, as they were expected to run the household while their husbands blew off steam from the mills and mines.

Now, I’m no sociology PHD, but it’s fair to say things have happily moved on from this situation, and there are tectonic shifts in society of which the women in sport debate is only a part.

While sport remains frozen in its 19th century, male-dominated genesis, changes in how gender roles are defined have created pressure points where suddenly it’s no longer okay for a top women’s Gaelic football team to train in a muddy field and go home without a shower or a meal while the boys are lavished like Regency princelings.

When you are the father of daughters it’s a lot to be thinking about. You spend a lot of time wondering how best to raise them when what it means to be a girl is shifting even since you were a child yourself; and then you realise, that all you can do is try to make their lives a little freer, and fairer.

Even tectonic plates need a little shove now and then.

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Anthony Daly with Cian Dillon, Noel Connors and Shane Fives after last night’s win.

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ANTHONY DALY HAS thrown his weight behind an idea to give the gate receipts to charity from the GAA Interprovincial football and hurling championships.

The Clare man last night managed Munster to defeat Leinster in the hurling decider in Thurles but interest has dwindled in the competition in recent years and only a paltry attendance of 592 fans turned up at Semple Stadium.

When there is late night shopping, I suppose it is hard,” admitted Daly, speaking to RTÉ Sport.

“A regular slot would be a great thing. I think John Mullane had a great idea during the week when he said that maybe a charity could come in behind it [the competition].

“I think funds could be raised because players have shown their interest.”

Daly praised the players commitment to the Munster cause and the standard of hurling on offer.

Munster players celebrate after the game

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“It was a great game of hurling under lights, an incredible set of players. It’s great to be winning at the end of the year.

“They [Leinster] came to win, you saw the way [TJ] Reid played out there, Pádraig Walsh, these fellas.

James Barry and Dan McCormack challenge TJ Reid

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“I saw an interview with Tommy Walsh saying how he always loved playing it and Pádraig was the very same out there. I suppose it means nothing to some people. It’s a unique kind of thing.

“I’m not saying we’re training four nights a week or anything, but we have trained one night a week for the past four weeks and there has been a great turnout and respect.

“This bunch of fellas will never be together again. Lads responded individually and collectively.”

Pauric Maher celebrates with Dan McCormack

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ALL-IRELAND CLUB champions Ballyboden St-Enda’s have turned to former Dublin footballer John O’Brien as their new manager.

Andy McEntee has taken over as the new Meath senior football boss and brought his spell with the Dublin club to an end with this week’s Division 1 football league final victory.

O’Brien has previously represented Dublin at minor, U21 and senior level before having stints coaching Dublin IT and Meath club Curraha.

In 2015 he steered Curraha to Meath and Leinster junior football titles before they lost out to Kerry’s Templenoe at the All-Ireland semi-final stage last January.

Ballyboden won the Dublin and Leinster senior crowns last year before going on to add the All-Ireland title last spring with victories over Clonmel Commercials and Castlebar Mitchels.

Their reign in Dublin was ended this year at the second round stage by Kilmacud Crokes.

“Following the selection of Andy McEntee as the Meath senior manager, we completed a thorough process to find a suitable successor,” stated Ballyboden football chairman Eoin Dunne.

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“Of all of the candidates that were considered, John emerged as a young, dynamic and ambitious manger, who we believe has the right skills and qualities to lead the Ballyboden St Enda’s senior football team in the coming years.

John O’Brien in action for Dublin in the O’Byrne Cup

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“We want to build upon our recent successes, and we also want ensure that we achieve the full potential of the considerable playing talent that is available in our club and we are excited at the prospect of working with John to do just that.”

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THE SHORTLIST FOR RTÉ Sports Person of the Year is packed with worthy contenders. Today, Fintan O’Toole argues why Denise Gaule deserves to be on the shortlist.

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WHEN KILKENNY LIFTED the O’Duffy Cup in 1994, they hardly reckoned on Noreside that they would be waiting 22 years to claim the title again.

The painful and frustrating wait that ensued featured six All-Ireland final losses. Denise Gaule shared in those setbacks, starting against Galway in 2013 and Cork in 2014 but feeling the crushing sense of defeat at the final whistle on both occasions.

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2016 was different. It opened brightly when she helped Kilkenny get past Galway in the camogie league final. When those counties clashed again at the All-Ireland semi-final stage in August, Gaule was again instrumental in a Klikenny win over Galway.

Her 0-9 return in a match that went the distance to extra-time was fittingly recognised with the player of the match award.

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To the All-Ireland final then, the biggest day of the camogie calendar and all the pressure hovered over Kilkenny to end their drought against a Cork team chasing three-in-a-row.

But Kilkenny stood up. Gaule’s free-taking was flawless as she shot 0-7 and in a defensive-minded game, the Windgap player revelled in a free role around the middle where she was able to orchestrate the direction the match went.

By the final whistle Kilkenny were four-point victors and Gaule had been central to that triumph. In November she was one of eight Kilkenny players who were honoured with All-Star awards.

And Gaule’s consistency was also marked with the Camogie Association/WGPA Players’ Player of the Year award.

For the best camogie player in the country, 2016 was a season that created memories which will last.

Denise Gaule

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