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Eoin Quigley
Eoin Quigley (born 13 October 1981) is an Irish hurler who played as a centre-forward for the Wexford senior team. Born in Piercestown, County Wexford, Quigley first played competitive hurling whilst at school at Wexford CBS. He first made his mark on the inter-county scene when he first linked up with the Wexford under-21 team. He made his senior debut in the 2004 championship. Quigley went on to play a key part for Wexford for almost a decade and won one Leinster medals and one National Hurling League (Division 2) medal. As a member of the Leinster inter-provincial team at various times, Quigley won one Railway Cup medal in 2009. At club level he is a two-time championship medallist with St Martin's, before later transferring to Sarsfields where he won another championship medal. Throughout his career Cloonan made 30 championship appearances. He announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 28 January 2014. His father, John, as well as his uncles, Dan, Martin an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin's GAA (Wexford)
St Martin's GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Murrintown in the Parish of Piercestown, County Wexford, Ireland. The club was founded in 1932 and fields teams in both hurling and Gaelic football. The women's arm of the club fields teams in both camogie and ladies' Gaelic football. History The club was founded in 1932 although an earlier club bearing that name, and playing in black in white, was established in Murrintown in 1912. It lost the county junior football final of 1913 and then, in 1914, it changed jerseys to green and yellow and its name to Michael Dwyers. The current club was established at a meeting in Piercestown National School in 1932. The club experienced intermittent success in its first 70 years and had to partner on occasion with other clubs such as St. Mary’s of Rosslare and Glynn-Barntown at underage and under 21 levels up to the mid 1980s. After a peripatetic existence, the club secured a permanent home in 1962 when part of the Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Quigley (hurler)
John Quigley (born 1949) is a former Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Rathnure and with the Wexford senior inter-county team in the 1960s and 1970s. Playing career Club Quigley played his club hurling with the famous Rathnure club and enjoyed much success. He won his first county title in 1967 before winning a four-in-a-row in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974. These wins were converted into Leinster club titles in 1971 and 1973. Quigley won further county medals in 1977, 1979 and 1980. He continued his club hurling well into the 1980s, winning both county and Leinster titles in 1986. Inter-county Quigley first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Wexford minor hurling team in the 1960s. He won both Leinster and All-Ireland honours at this level in 1966 and added a second Leinster minor medal to his collection in 1967. Quigley later joined the county under-21 team where he won Leinster title in 1969. By this stage he had alread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wexford Inter-county Hurlers
Wexford () is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The town is linked to Dublin by the M11/N11 National Primary Route; and to Rosslare Europort, Cork and Waterford by the N25. The national rail network connects it to Dublin and Rosslare Europort. It had a population of 20,188 according to the 2016 census. History The town was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD. They named it ''Veisafjǫrðr'', meaning "inlet of the mudflats", and the name has changed only slightly into its present form. According to a story recorded in the ''Dindsenchas'', the name "Loch Garman" comes from a man named '' Garman mac Bomma Licce'' who was chased to the river mouth and drowned as a consequence of stealing the queen's crown from Temair during the feast of Samhain. For about three hundred years it was a Viking town, a city-state, largely indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Martin's (Wexford) Hurlers
St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to: Places * St. Martins, Missouri, a city in the USA * St Martin's, Isles of Scilly, an island off the Cornish coast, England * St Martin's, North Yorkshire, England * St Martins, Perth and Kinross, Scotland * St Martin's, Shropshire, a village in England * St Martin's, Guernsey, a parish in the Channel Islands * St Martins (ward), a former electoral ward of Trafford, Greater Manchester, from 1973 to 2003 * Saint Martins Parish, New Brunswick, Canada ** St. Martins, New Brunswick, a village therein * St Martins, New Zealand, a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand * St. Martin's Island, a coral reef island of Bangladesh in Bay of Bengal * Saint Martin's Island Saint Martin Island ( bn, সেন্টমার্টিন দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 3 km2) in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and fo ... a small island at the mouth of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
