Liz Neary

Liz Neary
Personal information
Irish name Eibhlín Ní Náraigh
Sport Camogie
Position Full-back
Born Kilkenny, Ireland
Club(s)
Years Club
St. Paul's
Austin Stacks
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1968-1987
Kilkenny
Inter-county titles
All-Irelands 7
NHL 5
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Liz Neary (born 1951 in Kilkenny, Ireland) is a retired Irish sportsperson. She played camogie at various times with her local clubs St. Paul's and Austin Stacks and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1970 until 1987. Neary is regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time.[1][2]

In a senior inter-county career that lasted for nineteen years she won seven All-Ireland medals, five National League medals and five Gael Linn Interprovincial medals. With her two clubs St. Paul's and Austin Stack's she collected a huge haul of twenty-one county titles and six All-Ireland club medals.

Neary was also presented with a number of personal awards during her career. In 1981 and 1986 she was awarded the B&I Player of the Year Award. In 2004, she was named on the Camogie Team of the Century.

  1. ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
  2. ^ "The Camogie Team of the Century". Camogie Association of Ireland. 28 February 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2008.