Cora Staunton
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Ladies Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born | 1983 (age 33–34) | ||
| Height | 5'8 | ||
| Occupation | HSE Liaison Officer | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Carnachon | |||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 2004- | Mayo | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| All-Irelands | 4 | ||
| All Stars | 10 | ||
Cora Staunton is an Irish women's footballer. She is best known as a Ladies Gaelic footballer, winning four All-Irelands and three Ladies' National Football League titles with Mayo. She has also been an All Star on ten occasions. In addition to playing Gaelic football, Staunton has also played three other football codes at a senior level. In 2006, as an association footballer, she won an FAI Women's Cup winner's medal with the Mayo Ladies League representative team. In 2013, she began playing rugby union for Castlebar Ladies in the Connacht Women's League. She has also played for the Ireland women's international rules football team. Staunton works as a HSE liaison officer, working with women from the Irish Travellers community.
Staunton was raised in Carnacon, County Mayo. Her father was a farmer and her mother worked in the catering department of a local hospital. She has four brothers and three sisters and is the second youngest amongst her siblings. In 1995, her mother, Mary, was diagnosed with cancer. She died in 1998 when Staunton was 16.
Staunton began playing Gaelic football at the age of seven in her local school in Carnacon. She later played with boys' teams in nearby Ballinrobe. Among her earliest team mates was Alan Dillon. Staunton made her debut for the Mayo senior ladies' football team in 1995 aged just 13. She made her first appearance in an All-Ireland final in 1999. However, she played just 90 seconds of the game because she had broken her collarbone in training a week before the final. The team elected to start her anyway, as a ceremonial gesture. She made her second All-Ireland appearance in 2000, scoring 2:2 as Mayo defeated Waterford. Staunton's third All-Ireland appearance in 2001 ended in disappointment after a mix-up over a last minute kick-out saw Mayo lose by a single point to Laois. However Staunton and Mayo then won two successive All-Irelands in 2002 and 2003. Staunton played in a sixth All-Ireland in 2007. Staunton has also won five All-Ireland Ladies Club Football Championships with her club, Carnacon.
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