Liz Neary
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Eibhlín Ní Náraigh | ||
| Sport | Camogie | ||
| Position | Full-back | ||
| Born | Kilkenny, Ireland | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
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St. Paul's Austin Stacks |
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| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1968-1987 | Kilkenny | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| All-Irelands | 7 | ||
| NHL | 5 | ||
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.
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 honoured with the prestigious B&I Player of the Year Award. In 2004, she was named on the Camogie Team of the Century.
Liz Neary was born in Kilkenny in 1951. She was educated locally and later attended the Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny. It was here that her camogie skills were first developed. Neary captained the school to the All-Ireland Colleges’ title in 1970.
Neary played most of her club camogie with the famed St Paul’s camogie club in Kilkenny and enjoyed much success. When the club disbanded in the early 1990s she had already collected twenty county titles. During this period Neary also won six All-Ireland club titles, the first of which came in 1970. She won the last of her six All-Ireland club medals nineteen years later in 1989. Downey later joined the Austin Stacks club in Dublin and enjoyed further success by winning yet another county medal.
Neary was still in secondary school when she first played senior camogie with Kilkenny in 1968. By 1972 she was a key member of the team and she lined out in her first championship decider. Cork provided the opposition again and it was ‘the Rebel’ ladies who captured a 2-5 to 1-4 victory.
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