Orla Cotter
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Orla Cotter born 1988 in Cork
is a camogie
player and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008
and 2009
and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier. She has won two Senior All- Ireland medals and made history in 2006 when she became the first player to collect Senior and Senior 'B' honours in the same year. Orla holds titles with her club from Under-14 to Junior as well as All-Ireland Junior Colleges honours and Senior and Junior National League medals. Her sister, Finola, was on the Cork Under-16 team in 2008.
Cork (city)
Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...
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 and student, winner of All Ireland camogie medals in 2006, 2008
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2008
The 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was played between June 1 and September 14, 2008. The format was as follows: seven county teams entered. Each team played all of the others once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top four teams qualified for the semi-finals...
and 2009
All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009
The 2009 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons— is the high point of the 2009 season in the sport of camogie. It commenced on June 20, 2009 and ended with the final on 13 September 2009...
and a camogie All Star award in 2006, 2008. Captained the Cork Minor team in 2006, having won an All-Ireland Under-16 medal three years earlier. She has won two Senior All- Ireland medals and made history in 2006 when she became the first player to collect Senior and Senior 'B' honours in the same year. Orla holds titles with her club from Under-14 to Junior as well as All-Ireland Junior Colleges honours and Senior and Junior National League medals. Her sister, Finola, was on the Cork Under-16 team in 2008.
External links
- Official Camogie Website
- Cronin’s championship diary in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine
- http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/gaa_fixtures_camogie_oduffycup.html Fixtures and results] for the 2009 O'Duffy CupO'Duffy CupThe All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship is the premier round-robin and knock-out competition in the game of camogie played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Camogie Association and are played during the summer months with the All-Ireland Camogie Final being played on the...
- All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour
- Video highlights of 2009 championship Part One and part two
- Video Highlights of 2009 All Ireland Senior Final
- Report of All Ireland final in Irish Times Independent and Examiner