1999 National Camogie League

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The 1999 National Camogie League a competition in the women's team field sport of camogie was won for the fifth time succession by Cork, who defeated Tipperary by an astonishing 36 points in the final, played at Thurles.^[1][2] The one-sided result was, surprisingly, reversed by Tipperary in the championship when they beat Kilkenny in the 1999 All-Ireland championship final replay four months later, Kilkenny having beaten Cork in a replayed semi-final. It was the first National League to be played since the rules of camogie changed the team size to 15-a-side, although the 1993 and 1994 League had been played on an experimental basis with 15 players a side.

Cork defeated Tipperary by five points in the first round of the league. Tipperary then defeated Limerick, Clare, Kilkenny and Wexford and scored a tremendous win over Galway in the semi-final.

The final was played as a curtain raiser to the Tipperary v Kerry Munster hurling championship tie in Thurles and Cork ran up 2-10 without reply in the opening 20 minutes. By half time it was 5-13 to 0-3. When Dierdre Hughes pointed forty seconds after the start of the second half Cork replied with two goals within a minute.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} Gerry Slevin wrote in The Guardian:^[8]

"The idea was good, playing a major camogie fixture before a hurling match, now the ladies have upped their complement of players to fifteen a side, using a full pitch. Not so good was the fact that the hurling public did not bother to go along to Semple Stadium for a 5pm throw-in. But as the crowd began to gather in the second half, they looked up at the scoreboard that was nigh incredible to comprehend and which showed Tipp in a light no one could have anticipated. It was sheer annihilation. After only ten minutes of the hour, the result was inevitable. No matter how one looks at it, this was a very serious blow to Tipp’s camogie prospects, and yet it would be wrong to view the performance in any light other than the fact that it was one of those days when nothing went right."

The Junior National League, known since 2006 as Division Two, was won by Derry who defeated Wexford intermediates in the final.

Cork

Tipperary

Cork: GK 1 Cora Keohane (Barryroe) RCB 2 Stephanie Dunlea (Glen Rovers) FB 3 Eithne Duggan (Bishopstown) LCB 4 Mags Finn (Fr O'Neill’s) RWB 5 Paula O'Connor (Newtownshandrum) 0-1 CB 6 Denise Cronin (Glen Rovers) LWB 7 Vivienne Harris (Bishopstown) (Capt) MF 8 Linda Mellerick (Glen Rovers) 2-0 MF 9 Ursula Troy (Newtownshandrum) RWF 10 Mary O'Connor (Killeagh) 0-2 CF 11 Sinéad O'Callaghan (Ballinhassig) 2-3 LWF 12 Una O'Donoghue (Cloughduv) 3-1 RCF 13 Sarah Hayes (Rockbán) 0-1 FF 14 Lynn Dunlea (Glen Rovers) 0-7 (1 45, 2 frees) LCF 15 Fiona O'Driscoll (Fr O'Neill’s) 2-4

Tipperary: GK 1 Nora Dwan (Toomevara) RCB 2 Marie Harkin (Drom-Inch) FB 3 Una O'Dwyer (Cashel) LCB 4 Ciara Gaynor (Kilruane) RWB 5 Therese Brophy (Burgess) CB 6 Suzanne Kelly (Toomevara) LWB 7 Sinéad Nealon (Burgess) MF 8 Méadhbh Stokes (Cashel) MF 9 Emily Hayden (Cashel) 0-1 RWF 10 Eimear McDonnell (Burgess) 0-1 CF 11 Noelle Kennedy (Toomevara) 1-3 (frees) LWF 12 Angie McDermott (Knockavilla) RCF 13 Caitríona Hennessy (Drom-Inch) FF 14 Deirdre Hughes (Toomevara) 0-2 LCF 15 Niamh Harkin (Drom-Inch) [9] Substitutes: GK Louise Ryan (Holycross) for Dwan  19' FF Philly Fogarty (Cashel) for Marie Harkin  25' FF Claire Madden for Gaynor  49'

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