Miriam Malone
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Miriam Malone is a former 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 the AIB Gaelic Star Junior Player of the Year award in 1987.

Career

Having played for Broadford
Broadford GAA
Broadford is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Kildare, Ireland, winners of two senior hurling and 16 senior camogie titles. It enlists players from a radius of twenty miles from the Boyne bridge in Edenderry, Leinster bridge in Clonard, Blackwater bridge in Enfield and Barney Bridge in...

 since the formation of the camogie club and for Kildare county team since 1966, she scored 1-7 for Kildare in their breakthrough 1987 All Ireland Junior championship winning final
All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship
The All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship is the most important competition for third-tier county teams in the women’s field sport of camogie. In accordance with the practice in GAA competitions the term junior applies to the level of competition rather than the age group...

 against Armagh. She was selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century in 2004. She won Leinster junior championship medals in 1967, 1969, 1981, 1986 and 1987 and captained Kildare in their first, unsuccessful All Ireland final
All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship
The All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship is the most important competition for third-tier county teams in the women’s field sport of camogie. In accordance with the practice in GAA competitions the term junior applies to the level of competition rather than the age group...

 appearance in 1986. She won Gael Linn Cup
Gael Linn Cup
The Gael Linn Cup is a bi-ennial tournament in the Irish sport of camogie contested by Ireland’s fuur provincial teams. Currently played at senior and junior level on alternate years. The tournament has existed in various guides since 1956, is played at senior and junior level on alternate years...

 medals at senior and junior level with Leinster.

External links


Wikipedia List of Camogie players
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