The Cork team (Ann Daly, Vera McCarthy, Valerie O’Leary, Sharon Bowes, Eleanor Walsh and Siobhan Scannell) with a score of 260 successfully regained the Ladies Inter County crown with a tight two stroke victory over Kildare Bernie Dunne, Mairead O’Toole, Rose Kelly, Tara Dillon, Marian Byrne and Christine Byrne)  at a sun drenched St. Patrick’s course in Enniscorthy. It was just so close and the result in doubt right up to the end until Eleanor Walsh with a 53 and Siobhan Scannell with a 52 sealed the victory for Cork, Dublin (Linda Thompson, Barbara Furlong, Stella Sheridan, Sheila Elmes, Siobhan Keely and Geraldine Ward) finished third with a score of 467, Tipperary leaders after the foursomes finished in fourth place on 469. Other scores Offaly 491, Meath 507, Louth 509, Waterford 528