🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2023🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2018🏆 Wexford Intermediate Hurling Champions 2013⚡ Founded 1970 in Gorey, Co. Wexford🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2023🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2018🏆 Wexford Intermediate Hurling Champions 2013⚡ Founded 1970 in Gorey, Co. Wexford🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2023🏆 Wexford Senior Hurling Champions 2018🏆 Wexford Intermediate Hurling Champions 2013⚡ Founded 1970 in Gorey, Co. Wexford
Camogie revived: the 2002 restart that put hurleys back in girls' hands in Gorey — Naomh Éanna GAA, Gorey
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Camogie revived: the 2002 restart that put hurleys back in girls' hands in Gorey

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Camogie was revived at Naomh Éanna in 2002. Two decades on it is one of the three codes the club fields, with a pathway running from juvenile teams to the senior panel.

Camogie at Naomh Éanna was revived in 2002, and that single decision reshaped the club. It moved Naomh Éanna from a two-code club to the three-code club it is today: hurling, Gaelic football and camogie.

A revival is harder work than a founding. It means finding coaches, gear and pitch time for teams that did not exist the season before, and convincing a generation of girls in Gorey that the club's field belongs to them too.

Two decades on, camogie is embedded in the club calendar at Páirc Uí Shíocháin, with juvenile teams feeding an adult panel and camogie players sharing the same coaching structures and facilities as the hurlers and footballers.

For a club whose name comes from a school, it fits: the most important thing Naomh Éanna does is keep young people playing.