Ladies' Gaelic football

Between 2003 and 2017 Buckley played for the Cork county ladies' football team. Together with Valerie Mulcahy, Juliet Murphy and Briege Corkery she was a member of the Cork team that won eleven All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championships between 2005 and 2016.^{[11][13][20][21]} In 2010 Buckley captained Cork when they won the Ladies' National Football League title ^[22] and in 2012 she was captain when they won the All-Ireland title.^[23] In the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final she was named Player of the Match.^[24] In 2017 she retired from the Cork senior ladies' football team.^[21]

Camogie

Between 2004 and 2018 Buckley played for the Cork county camogie team. Together with Gemma O'Connor, Anna Geary, Ashling Thompson and Briege Corkery she was a member of the Cork team that won seven All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championships between 2005 and 2017. ^[11][20][21] She captained Cork when they won the 2017 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final.^{[4][25][26][27][28][29]} In 2018 Buckley announced she was retiring from the Cork senior camogie team.^[30][31][32]

All-Ireland Finals

Between 2005 and 2017, while playing for the Cork county ladies' football team and the Cork county camogie team, Buckley won 18 All-Ireland winners medals, making her one of the most decorated sportspeople in Gaelic games. In 2012 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship and in 2017 she captained Cork when they won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship. She was the first player to captain Cork to both All-Ireland championships and, after Mary Geaney, she became only the second player to captain a team to both All-Ireland championships. On six occasions she helped Cork win the Double, after they won both All-Ireland championships in the same year. In total she played in 22 All-Ireland finals. On four occasions she finished as a runner-up, all with the Cork senior camogie team. In 2015 Buckley and her team mate and fellow dual player, Briege Corkery, both broke the record for most individual All-Ireland medals, overtaking the 15 won by the Dublin camogie player, Kathleen Mills.^{[4][20][25][26][27][33][34]} In December 2015 Buckley and Corkery were named joint winners of the 2015 The Irish Times/ Sport Ireland Sportswoman of the Year Award in recognition of there achievement.^[20][35]

  Cork won the Double, winning both All-Ireland championships in the same year.