Bríd Reid 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, captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1959, unusually (for the time) returning by air from her honeymoon in England to captain the team to victory.

Career

She won five All Ireland senior medals in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957 and 1958. She scored a dramatic last minute winning goal for Dub;in against Antrim in the 1957 final.

External links

• Camogie.ie Official Camogie Association Website

Wikipedia List of Camogie players