| Championship details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 1 June — 14 September 2008 |
| Teams | 7 |
| All-Ireland champions | |
| Winners | Cork (22nd win) |
| Captain | Cathriona Foley |
| Manager | Denise Cronin |
| All-Ireland runners-up | |
| Runners-up | Galway |
| Captain | Sinéad Cahalan |
| Manager | Liam Donoghue |
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The 2008 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 2008 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Galway by a five-point margin in the final. [1] [2] The 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.
Group stages
Substitute Lourda Kavanagh’s late goal helped Galway spring a surprise against Cork in the group stages by 1-9 to 0-8 at Páirc Ui Rinn. Cork went on to gain revenge when the same teams med again in the All-Ireland final, the second time a group result had been reversed in the final in the three years since the round-robin format had been introduced into the championship in 2006.
Results
Group stage
The cross table below summarises the group stages, which were played from June 1 to August 3, 2008. Away results are italicised.
| Team | C | G | W | T | K | D | L | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork | - | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Galway | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Wexford | 0 | 0 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Tipperary | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Kilkenny | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Dublin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Limerick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 |
Final stages
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Galway
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References
- ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5
- ^ 2008 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner, Irish Independent, Irish Times and Reaction in Irish Examiner
External links
- Reports of 2008 All Ireland final in Independent, Irish Times Examiner, Reaction in Examiner
- Video highlights of 2008 championship Part One, Part Two and Part three
- Video of 2008 All Ireland finals preview
- Video of 2008 All Ireland semi-final Wexford v Galway
- Results on camogie.ie (MS Excel document)
- Official Camogie Website
- Review of championship in On The Ball Official Camogie Magazine