Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Áine Ní Chléirigh | ||
Sport | Ladies' football | ||
Position | Midfielder | ||
Born |
1983 (age 40–41) Lavally | ||
Nickname | Clarkie | ||
Occupation | Garda[1] | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Kilkerrin-Clonberne | |||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
1997–2016[2] | Galway | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
All-Irelands | 1 | ||
All Stars | 2 |
Annette Clarke (born 1983; married name Annette Collins[3]) is an Irish sportswoman. She played ladies' Gaelic football with her local club, Kilkerrin-Clonberne, and with the Galway county team.[4][5]
Clarke won the All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship with Galway in 2002, and captained Galway to the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2004. [6]
She suffered a near-career-ending injury in 2010 and was dropped from the Galway squad in 2012. Clarke, however, returned to the Galway squad, winning a second All Star in 2013[7] and captaining her club to a Connacht Ladies Senior Club Football Championship in 2014. She retired in 2016.[8][3]
She appeared on an episode of Laochra Gael on 17 April 2016.[9]
Annette Clarke is a member of Garda Síochána, the Irish police.[10][11] She is married to Kieran Collins.[3]