Renee Fitzgerald

{{Short description|Camogie player}}

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| code = Camogie

| county = Cork

| province = Munster

| name = Renee Fitzgerald

| irish = Ríona Nic Gearailt

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| sport = Camogie

| position = Full Forward

| club = Old Aloysius

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| birth_place = Cork, Ireland

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Renee Fitzgerald is a former camogie player,{{cite book | last = Moran | first = Mary | authorlink = Mary Moran (camogie) | title = A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie | publisher = Cumann Camógaíochta | year = 2011 | location = Dublin, Ireland | pages = 460}} captain of the All Ireland Camogie Championship winning team in 1939, scoring four of Cork's six goals in the final.{{cite news|title=Camogie Archive |url=http://www.camogie.ie/AboutCamogie/ChampionshipHistory/tabid/61/Default.aspx=Camogie.ie |publisher=Camogie.ie |date=30 June 2010 |accessdate=30 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128172120/http://www.camogie.ie/AboutCamogie/ChampionshipHistory/tabid/61/Default.aspx=Camogie.ie |archivedate=28 January 2012 }}

Career

She won a further All Ireland senior medal in 1940, scoring two goals in Cork's 4-1 to 2–2 defeat of Galway.[http://www.facebook.com/album.php?page=1&aid=143043&id=217157391491 Historic newspaper reports of All Ireland finals] She scored a goal and had another controversially disallowed in Cork's 1942 All Ireland final draw against Dublin, before Cork lost the replay. She reportedly scored six goals in Cork's 11-4 to 1–0 defeat of Limerick in the 1942 Munster final.{{fact|date=July 2021}}

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