Ciara Gaynor is a camogie

Camogie

Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....

 player, winner of an All-Star award in 2004, a Lynchpin award, predecessor of the All Star awards, in 2003, and five All Ireland medals in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004.

Family background

Ciara’s father Len Gaynor

Len Gaynor

Len Gaynor is a retired Irish hurling manager and former player. He played hurling with his local club Kilruane McDonagh's and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s...

 was a double All Ireland hurling medalist with Tipperary, manager of the Clare and Tipperary hurling teams and the Tipperary camogie team. She won an All-Ireland schools' medal

All Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship

The All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship is an Irish camogie tournament played each year to determine the national champion secondary school or second level college....

 in 1994 with St Mary's. Nenagh alongside fellow All Star winner Suzanne Kelly

Suzanne Kelly

Suzanne Kelly is a camogie player, winner of two All-Star awards in 2004 and 2006 and five All Ireland medals in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004...

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Career

She played in six successive All Ireland finals for Tipperary winning All Ireland medals in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. She won Intermediate

All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship

The All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship is the most important competition in the women’s field sport of camogie for second-tier county teams and for second-string teams of first-tier counties. If the winning team comes from a second-tier county, that county is promoted to the following...

All Ireland honours with Tipperary in 1997.