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2016–17 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship
The 2016–17 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the 47th annual Gaelic football club championship since its establishment in the 1970–71 season. The winning team received the Andy Merrigan Cup. The defending champion was Ballyboden St Enda's who defeated Castlebar Mitchels on 17 March 2016 to win a first title; however, Kilmacud Crokes defeated Ballyboden in the second round of the 2016 Dublin SFC. Dr Crokes won a second title, defeating Slaughtneil by 1–9 to 1–7 in the final at Croke Park on 17 March 2017 (St Patrick's Day). The winning captain was Johnny Buckley. Connacht Quarter-final Semi-finals Final Leinster First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Munster Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Ulster Preliminary round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Quarter-final Semi-finals Final Statistics Top scorers ;Overall ;In a single game References {{DEFAULTSORT:2016-17 All-Ireland Senior C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allied Irish Bank
Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. is one of the so-called Big Four commercial banks in the Republic of Ireland. AIB offers a full range of personal, business and corporate banking services. The bank also offers a range of general insurance products such as home, travel and car. It offers life assurance and pensions through its tied agency with Irish Life Assurance plc. In December 2010 the Irish government took a majority stake in the bank, which eventually grew to 99.8%. AIB's shares are currently traded on the Irish Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, but its shares were delisted from these exchanges between 2011 and 2017, following its effective nationalisation. The remainder of its publicly traded shares were listed on the Enterprise Securities Market of the Irish Stock Exchange until 23 June 2017. AIB also owns Allied Irish Bank (GB) in Great Britain and AIB (NI) in Northern Ireland. In November 2010, it sold its 22.5% stake in M&T Bank in the United States. At th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croke Park
Croke Park (, ) is a Gaelic games stadium in Dublin, Ireland. Named after Archbishop Thomas Croke, it is referred to as Croker by GAA fans and locals. It serves as both the principal national stadium of Ireland and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). Since 1891 the site has been used by the GAA to host Gaelic sports, including the annual All-Ireland finals in List of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals, Gaelic football and List of All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship finals, hurling. A major expansion and redevelopment of the stadium ran from 1991 to 2005, raising capacity to its current 82,300 spectators. This makes Croke Park the List of European stadiums by capacity, fourth-largest stadium in Europe, and the largest not usually used for association football in Europe. Along with other events held at the stadium include the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games, 2003 Special Olympics, and numerous musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusserane O'Rahilly's GAA
Gusserane O'Rahilly's club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Ballycullane, County Wexford, Ireland. The club fields teams in both hurling and Gaelic football in Wexford GAA competitions. The club is one of a number that use the "O'Rahilly's" name (after Michael Rahilly from County Kerry), with others existing in places such as Drogheda, Monaghan and Tralee. Liam Fardy, who managed the Wexford senior football team between 1991 and 1995, and who also managed the county's under-21 football team, is from Gusserane. The club won a first Wexford Senior Football Championship title for 41 years in 2016. It contested the 2021 Wexford SFC final but lost. Honours * Wexford Senior Football Championships (6): 1945, 1946, 1947, 1954, 1975, 2016 * Wexford Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1997 * Wexford Intermediate A Hurling Championship (1): 2020 * Wexford Junior Hurling Championship The Wexford Junior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aughrim Park
Aughrim County Ground, known for sponsorship reasons as Echelon Park Aughrim, is a Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA stadium in Aughrim, County Wicklow, Aughrim, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Aughrim County Ground is the name of the home of Gaelic Games for County Wicklow (Gaelic football, Hurling, Camogie, Ladies Football) team. The ground has a capacity of about 7,000. The name "O'Byrne Park" was occasionally used in the past, but this has never been the official name: this mistake that came about because of the Irish name for the local village of Aughrim, "Aughrim of the O'Byrnes" (''Eachdhruim Uí Bhroin''). Also known locally as "The Pitch", or just "The Field". See also * List of Gaelic Athletic Association stadiums * List of stadiums in Ireland by capacity References Gaelic games grounds in the Republic of Ireland Sports venues in County Wicklow Wicklow GAA {{Ireland-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán O'Mahony's GFC
Seán O'Mahony's GFC is a Gaelic football club that fields teams in competitions organized by Louth GAA. It is located in the 'Quay' area of Dundalk, County Louth, near the town's port. The clubrooms and pitch are adjacent to the Navvy Bank, a popular local landmark which affords walkers picturesque views of the Cooley Mountains. As of 2025, the club competes in the Louth Intermediate Football Championship and Division 1 of the County football Leagues. History The present-day club was established in 1938 and named after the Irish republican Seán O'Mahony. An earlier manifestation of the club was based in the Quay area during the early 1900s. Known simply as 'O'Mahony's', the original club was formed in 1903. O'Mahony's were runners-up in the final of the inaugural Louth Junior Football Championship in 1904 and lost another final two years later. They amalgamated with fellow Dundalk side John Dillons in 1907, but re-emerged on the county scene in the 1920s, winning two J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltinglass GAA
Baltinglass GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Ireland. The main sport is Gaelic football. The club participates in male and female competitions from under 8 through to Adult ages run by the Wicklow GAA county board. The club's motto is 'Belief, Attitude, Loyalty, Trust, & Optimism', or BALTO for short. History Founded in 1887, First the club played under the name of ''Maurice Davins''. The first success came in 1913 as ''Baltinglass Shamrocks'', they won the delayed 1912 Wicklow Junior title. 1927 saw a Wicklow Senior Hurling title. In 1934 a meeting was held to re-establish the football club. A minor title in 1940 was followed by a Junior title in 1943 and with this it was promoted to Intermediate ranks. More minor titles were won 1952, 53, 54 & 55. The current pitch was bought in 1957, but was not officially opened until the 1980s. 1958 saw Baltinglass win the Wicklow Senior title for the first time. Four titles in the sixt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Neilan
Paddy Neilan is a Gaelic football referee. He has refereed several All-Ireland Finals and the Connacht and Munster Senior Football Championship Finals. Career He was a controversial selection to referee the 2017 National League final. But he refereed the game very well and then got booed and dissected on TV the night of a qualifier between Armagh and Tipperary in Thurles went wrong. Another escort from the pitch a Guard either side of him followed after Meath and Tyrone played out a 2018 All Ireland Qualifier. He refereed the 2017 Munster Senior Football Championship final. Dublin manager Jim Gavin criticised him after Kerry won. By 2019, he had refereed in every county except Waterford, Wexford, and Westmeath. He was referee for the Donegal and Kerry Super 8s game in the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. He is considered the top referee in Connacht (including Roscommon). He refereed the 2022 Munster Senior Football Championship semi-final, which Limeric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corofin GAA (Galway)
Corofin GAA is a Gaelic football club based in Corofin, County Galway, Ireland. It is a member of the Galway branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The club serves the two parishes of Cummer and Kilmoylan and the village of Belclare. Corofin are the 2019–20 All-Ireland Club Champions, after winning their third-successive All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final by defeating Kilcoo of Down in January 2020. History The club has had a long association with the GAA dating back as far as its inception. Corofin born and long time local parish priest, Dr Patrick Duggan, who was then Bishop of Clonfert was Michael Cusack's first choice to be the clerical patron of the new association in 1884. However, the Bishop (then 71 years of age) declined the invitation on health grounds, and directed the delegation to the more youthful Dr Croke the Archbishop of Cashel. The current club was formed in 1925 as a result of an amalgamation between Corofin and Belclare. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada
Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada () is a GAA stadium in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland. It is the home of Leitrim GAA's football and hurling teams. It was named for the Irish revolutionary Seán Mac Diarmada, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising. (As there was in the early 1960s some debate among Irish scholars as to whether the genitive case should be used in commemorative namings, the nominative form was used and has been retained, rather than what would now be generally regarded as the grammatically correct form, Páirc Sheáin Mhic Dhiarmada.) The stadium, opened in 1964, had a capacity of 17,000, with 3,000 seats. Following a national review of health and safety at GAA stadiums, that was reduced in 2011 to 9,331. In 2006–07, a major renovation created a 3,000-seat covered stand providing an unrestricted view of the football field. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aughawillan GAA
Aughawillan GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football club in Lower Drumreilly parish, County Leitrim, Ireland. Grounds Aughawillan is located near the County Cavan border, northeast of Ballinamore. History Aughawillan claim their origins from the Rory O'Donnells club which played in 1890. A team from the locality played under the names Kiltyhugh and Lower Drumreilly, winning the 1923 Leitrim Senior Football Championship. A ladies' Gaelic football club was founded in the 1970s and has won nineteen county championships. The current grounds opened in 1982. Aughawillan have won 12 senior football county titles and have reached the final of the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship on two occasions, in 1992 and 1994. Achievements * Connacht Senior Club Football Championship: Runner-Up 1992, 1994 * Leitrim Senior Football Championship: Winners (12) 1923, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2014, 2016, 2018 * Leitrim Ladies' Senior Football Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Brigid's GAA (Roscommon)
St Brigid's GAA Club (''Naomh Bríd'') is a Gaelic football club located in the parishes of Kiltoom and Cam in County Roscommon, Ireland. The club was founded in 1944 and is a member of the Roscommon GAA branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association. As well as senior, intermediate and junior teams, the club fields underage teams from under-8 to under-21 and caters for ladies' Gaelic football at all ages. St Brigid's' home pitch is at Newpark, Kiltoom. The team plays in green and red colours. On 25 November 2012, St Brigid's secured a third consecutive Connacht Senior Club Football Championship (SFC) title, defeating Ballaghaderreen by 1–12 to 0–6, and becoming the second club team in Connacht to achieve this. St Brigid's won the 2012–13 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship title, defeating Dublin GAA club Ballymun Kickhams GAA, Ballymun Kickhams in the 2012–13 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship#Final_5, final at Croke Park on Saint Patrick's day, St Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McHale Park
MacHale Park () is a GAA stadium in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. It is the home of the Castlebar Mitchels GAA and Mayo GAA Gaelic football teams. Built in 1931, the ground currently has a capacity of 28,000 and is named after John MacHale, Catholic Archbishop of Tuam from 1831 to 1881. It is the twelfth-biggest sports stadium in the Republic of Ireland by capacity and the second-biggest in the province of Connacht after Pearse Stadium in Galway. History Discussions with the owners of the land where MacHale Park now stands commenced in 1929 and the deal was concluded on 7 March 1930. In early 1931, development of the pitch took place at a cost of IR£1,700. The first competitive matches took place in MacHale Park on 22 March 1931 when Castlebar Mitchels minors played Balla and Ballina and Cloonacastle played a junior championship match. The first inter-county match was a National Football League match between Mayo and Sligo on 19 April 1931, Mayo winning by 0–7 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
