Winning Adult titles in the past decade is nothing
new to the Lismore Camogie Club.
They have appeared in more Senior Finals in this
past decade more than anyone else and they have won more finals than anyone
else. Saint Anne’s and Gailltir there strongest rivals are the only sides to
stop them in recent times adding further county titles to their Roll of Honour,
while since the County League’s for which the winners are presented with the
Denny Buckley Cup, a trophy presented to the County Board by Lismore’s Laura
Buckley in memory of her Father who died in 2009 at all too young an age and
who did tremendous work promoting the game, the Cathedral Town side have made
it their own as well, only Saint Anne’s stopping them from winning it on one
occasion since it was first played for.
The Club has also done extremely well in the
Munster Intermediate Club Championship, the competition that the Waterford
Senior Champions play in each year, winning their quota of finals. And the club
has also reached two All-Ireland Intermediate Finals, winning the first which
they played in after a replay against Ballyhale Shamrocks in Clonmel after the
two sides finished all square at Croke Park, while they just fell short to
another Kilkenny Club Piltown in the second All-Ireland Final they have played
in.
A number of players have been central to many of
these successes, and some will be hoping to add to their collection of medals
this coming weekend when they take on Cork side Newcestown in the Munster
Intermediate Club Final at the G.A.A. Grounds at Cahir.
One such player is the Captain of the Lismore side
in 2017 Nicola Morrissey.
Nicola is a hugely experienced player who is
playing with Club and County now with a number of years.
In the white and blue of Waterford she is the
holder of a Junior All-Ireland Medal from 2011 and an Intermediate Medal from
four years later, when Waterford beat Kildare on what was a great day for
Waterford at Croke Park. Nicola captained Waterford to the 2011 triumph and in
the final scored 0-2 in Waterford’s 2-11 to 1-13 win over Down.
Such was her performances for Waterford when the
Déise Ladies won the 2011 All-Ireland Junior Championship, the Lismore lady was
one of a number of Waterford players picked on the Soaring Star Awards team.
The Soaring Star Awards are presented to players who play in the lower tiers of
the Inter County Camogie Championship each year.
And her ability has also been spotted by the
Munster Selectors and they have selected her to play for the Southern Province
in the Inter Provisional’s.
With Lismore she has also won an impressive array
of medals, including six Senior County titles, Four Intermediate titles (hoping
for a fifth this weekend) and an All-Ireland Intermediate title amongst other
medals.
As one of the senior and longest serving members of
the current panel, Nicola has inspired a number of players that have come after
her, who all set out with the home of winning just some of what she has won and
achieved.
A win this weekend for Lismore with Nicola lifting
the winner’s trophy after the game, would surly get the next generation of
young girls, not just in Lismore but across the whole county to take up the
game and try and achieve just some of what one of the greats of the game in
Waterford has achieved in the last number of years.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.