Maeve Gilroy is a former camogie player, winner of the Cuchulainn award in 1966[1] and of All Ireland medals in 1956 and 1967.
[2] Gilroy was already regarded as one of the country's best players[3] when she scored two goals for Antrim against Dublin in the historic 1956 All Ireland semi-final, a match that prevented Dublin winning 19 All Ireland titles in a row.
She was goalscorer and lead forward on the first ever Queen's University Belfast team to defeat UCD, by a score of 3–1 to 3–0 in the Ashbourne Cup of 1959, but the cup went to UCD at the end of the round-robin series.
When the competition reverted to knock-out in 1961, she was on the QUB team that beat UCC 7–2 to 2–1 at Cherryvale in the Ashbourne Cup semi-final, alongside Margaret Treacy, Eileen Maguire and Maire O’Kane.
Playing in defence through the second half of her career, she was playmaker for the team that defeated Dublin in a 1967 replay and for the Ulster team that won their first Gael Linn Cup in 1967.