Camogie
(in Irish, camógaíocht) is a Celtic team
sport, the women's variant of hurling. The rules are
almost identical
to hurling with a few exceptions. One is that goalkeepers
wear the same colours as outfield players and a player
in camogie can handpass a score, which is not allowed
in the
men's game. All games last 60 minutes (senior inter-county
hurling games last 70), and dropping the camogie stick
to handpass the ball is permitted. Unlike hurling, the
referee
is not responsible for timekeeping; there is an independent
timekeeper. The All-Ireland Final is held every year
in Croke Park during September, usually the week between
the hurling
final and Gaelic football final. There are two main competitions;
the National League which is staged during the winter-spring
months and is used as a warm-up to the All-Ireland Championships
during the summer.
It is played
mainly in Ireland, the most successful counties being Dublin,
Cork, Kilkenny and in more recent times, Tipperary.
Counties
compete to win the O'Duffy Cup, awarded to the team that
wins the All-Ireland Senior Championship. Dublin have won
the most Camogie All-Ireland titles with 26, the last being
in 1984. Kilkenny hold the record for the most successive
Camogie titles with 7 victories between 1985 and 1991, their
last title to date was won in 1994.
The reigning
champions are Cork. The All-Ireland championship is now sponsored
by TG4 (an Irish television channel) on which the final is
broadcast live.
The
name "camogie"
Camogie/hurling is the only sport that uses a different name for the version
played by men and women. The reason is complicated: men play using a curved
stick called in Irish a camán. Women would use a shorter stick, called
by the diminutive form camóg. The suffix -aíocht was added to
both words to give names for the sports: camánaíocht (which became
iománaíocht) and camógaíocht. When the GAA was
founded in 1884 the English-origin name "hurling" was given to the
men's game. When an organisation for women was set up in 1904, it was decided
to Anglicise the Irish name camógaíocht to camogie.
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