1999 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 1999
Championship details
Dates3 June — 5 September 1999
Teams8
All-Ireland champions
WinnersTipperary (1st win)
CaptainMeadhbh Stokes
ManagerBiddy Phillips
All-Ireland runners-up
Runners-upKilkenny
CaptainGillian Dillon
1998
2000

The 1999 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship—known as the Bórd na Gaeilge All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship for sponsorship reasons—was the high point of the 1999 season and the first final to be played with 15 players a side. The championship was won by Tipperary who defeated Kilkenny by a single point margin in the final. It was Tipeprary's first success after seven previous final losses. The attendance, a then record of 15,084, included President Mary McAleese and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern[1][2]

  1. ^ 1999 All Ireland final reports in Irish Examiner Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, Irish Independent and Irish Times also comment on reversal of League final result
  2. ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460. 978-1-908591-00-5