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Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship
The Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Offaly GAA clubs. The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1907. The national media covers the competition. History The junior championship dates back to 1907. It was the second hurling championship to be established in Ofaly, and was originally seen as a second tier championship for teams that were too weak for the senior hurling championships. Kinnitty defeated Kilcormac–Killoughey in the 2020 championship decider, played in the summer of 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gaelic games. Format The series of games are played during the summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at O'Connor Park in late autumn. The championship includes a group stage which is followed by a knock-out phase for the top teams. Honours There is promotion involving the Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edenderry GAA
Edenderry GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Edenderry, County Offaly, Ireland. It participates in competitions organised by the Offaly GAA county board. The club fields both Gaelic football and hurling teams. Paul O'Kelly, who was a selector under Tommy Lyons when the Offaly county team won the 1997 Leinster Senior Football Championship and the 1997–98 National Football League, is from the Edenderry club. O'Kelly later served as manager of the county team himself. Notable players * Gerry Carroll * Finbarr Cullen * Seán Evans * Cillian Farrell * Seán Foran Achievements * Offaly Senior Football Championship (11 titles): 1936, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1985, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2011, 2015 * Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (0 titles): Runners-Up 1911, 1913, 1940 * Offaly Intermediate Football Championship (1 title): 2007 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship (3 titles): 1935, 1954, 1963 * Offaly Junior Football Championship (3 titles): 1925, 1933, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara GAA (Offaly)
Clara GAA is a GAA club based in Clara, County Offaly, Ireland. It participates in competitions organized by the Offaly GAA county board. The club fields both Gaelic football and Hurling teams. History The club was founded in 1884 and was the first club outside of Dublin to affiliate to the newly formed Gaelic Athletic Association. It is thus the oldest club in Offaly. Achievements * Offaly Senior Football Championship Winners (6) 1960, 1964, 1991, 1993, 2003, 2009 ** Runners-Up 1923, 1957, 1958, 1966, 1981, 1987, 1995, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 * Offaly Intermediate Football Championship Winners (1) 1956 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners (2) 1934, 2003 * Offaly Junior Football Championship Winners (6) 1911, 1919, 1928, 1954, 1999, 2007 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship Winners (6) 1920, 1926, 1941, 1983, 1996, 2015 * Leinster Special Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2014 Notable players * Brian Cowen Brian Bernard Cowen (born 10 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurling Competitions In County Offaly
Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of players and much terminology. The same game played by women is called camogie ('), which shares a common Gaelic root. The objective of the game is for players to use an ash wood stick called a hurley (in Irish a ', pronounced or ) to hit a small ball called a ' between the opponent's goalposts either over the crossbar for one point or under the crossbar into a net guarded by a goalkeeper for three points. The ' can be caught in the hand and carried for not more than four steps, struck in the air or struck on the ground with the hurley. It can be kicked, or slapped with an open hand (the hand pass), for short-range passing. A player who wants to carry the ball for more than four steps has to bounce or balance the ' on the end of the sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brosna Gaels GAA
Brosna Gaels GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parish of Leamonaghan, which includes Ballycumber, Doon and Pullough, in County Offaly, Ireland. The club is exclusively concerned with the game of hurling. Honours * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship (2): 2009, 2011 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship The Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Offaly GAA clubs. The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1907. The national media covers the competitio ... (1): 2007, 2021 * Offaly Junior B Hurling Championship (2): 2005, 2010 Notable players External links History of Brosna Gaels GAA Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly Hurling clubs in County Offaly {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birr GAA
Birr GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. The club is almost exclusively concerned with the game hurling and is one of the most successful hurling clubs in the country. While a number of teams represented Birr in the 1880s and 1890s, the current club was formally founded in 1909. St Brendan's Park, located on the south side of the town on Railway Road, is the home ground of the club. Honours * All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships: 4 ** 1995, 1998, 2002, 2003 * Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championships: 7 ** 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2007 * Offaly Senior Hurling Championships: 22 ** 1912, 1913, 1915, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1971, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championships: 4 ** 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championships: 1 ** 1985 * Offaly Junior Football Championships: 5 ** 1918, 1946, 1992, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracefield GAA
Gracefield GAA ( ga, Pairc de Grás) is a Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football club in Gracefield, County Offaly, Ireland. Their most notable period was in 1970, when they won the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. Honours *Leinster Senior Club Football Championship The Leinster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played on a knockout basis between the senior club championship winners of the competing counties in Leinster. The current holders of the Leinster title are Ba ...: 1 **1970 * Offaly Senior Football Championship: 4 **1961, 1970, 1972, 1984 * Offaly Junior Football Championship: 2 ** 1930, 1958 Current Panel * Conor Sheedy * Aaron Whelan * Óisín O'Dea * Niall Parker * Mark Ward * Tristan Lambe * Gavin Smyth * Jamie Evans * Niall Smith * Patrick Hurley * Philip Hurley * Jason Slattery * Jack Walsh * Craig Dunne * Stephen Flanagan * Declan Hennessy * James Flanagan * Pauric Duffy * Caoimhghin Murphy * Conor Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lusmagh GAA
Lusmagh GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the townland of Lusmagh, County Offaly, Ireland. The club is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling. Honours * Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1989 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship (2): 2012, 2015 * Leinster Junior Club Hurling Championship Runner-Up 2015 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship (1) 1973 Notable players * Brendan Bermingham * Brendan Kelly * Eoin Kelly * Joachim Kelly Joachim Kelly (born 2 December 1955) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He is manager of the Offaly senior hurling team. Kelly played for club side Lusmagh and was a member of the Offaly senior hurling team for 19 seasons, during ... * Jim Troy * John Troy References External links Lusmagh GAA on GAA Info website Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly Hurling clubs in County Offaly {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Rynagh's GAA
St Rynagh's ( ga, Naomh Raghnach) is the name of two Gaelic Athletic Association sister clubs that encompass the towns of Cloghan and Banagher in County Offaly, in Ireland. The St Rynagh's Football Club is based in Cloghan and wear green and white hooped jerseys; the St Rynagh's Hurling Club is based in Banagher and wear blue and gold jerseys. Formed in 1961, to represent the parish of Cloghan and Banagher, the club gained almost immediate success - winning the senior hurling championship in 1965. The St Rynagh's Hurling Club went on to appear in three All-Ireland club hurling finals during the next 30 years. St Rynagh's has also supplied three of Offaly's four All-Ireland Hurling Championship winning captains, namely Padraig Horan, Martin Hanamy and Hubert Rigney. Other noted players in the club's history include RTÉ pundit Michael Duignan, Pad Joe Whelahan, Aidan Fogarty and Declan Fogarty, David Hughes, Tom and Mícheál Conneely, and first ever all-star goalkeeper Dam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballyskenagh GAA
Ballyskenagh GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Ballyskenagh, County Offaly, Ireland. The club is almost exclusively concerned with the game of hurling. History Achievements * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship (3) 1979, 1995, 2008 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship (3) 1961, 1977, 1994 Notable players * Pat Cleary Pat Cleary (born 15 January 1962) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a right corner-forward for the Offaly senior team. Cleary made his first appearance for the team during the 1981-82 National Hurling League and became a regular playe ... * David Franks * Paddy Kirwan * Brendan Murphy References External links Ballyskenagh GAA on Facebook Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly Hurling clubs in County Offaly {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferbane GAA
Ferbane/Belmont GAA is a football club in the Gaelic Athletic Association located in Ferbane in County Offaly, Ireland, 13 miles from Birr. The Ferbane GAA field is located in the town of Ferbane on the Ballycumber Road. Ferbane play in the Offaly championship. Ferbane holds the record for the club with the longest continuous sponsorship deal in Gaelic football. Honours Football Ferbane enjoyed most of their success in the '80s and start of '90s where they won a 5 in a row of Offaly Senior Football Championship titles from 1986–90 and also a Leinster Senior Club Football Championship title in 1986 beating Portlaoise. Gallen community school also brought the senior all-Ireland vocational schools title to Ferbane where they beat Clonakilty cc in Croke Park. all Ireland runners up 2012. More recently Gallen community school have won the 2016 post primary schools B football title beating Mountbellew in the final. In 2019 the club bridged a 25-year gap by defeating Rhode in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballinamere GAA
Ballinamere GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Ballykimurray, Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland. Honours * Leinster Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 2013 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship (3) 1945, 1953, 2013 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship The Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Offaly GAA clubs. The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1907. The national media covers the competitio ... (5) 1944, 1950, 1959, 1980, 2010 * Offaly Junior Football Championship (2) 1983, 1998 References External links Ballinamere GAA Club Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly Hurling clubs in County Offaly Gaelic football clubs in County Offaly {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tullamore GAA
Tullamore GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the town of Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland. The club is concerned with both hurling and Gaelic football and competes in Offaly GAA competitions. History Honours * Offaly Senior Football Championships: (28) ** 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1941, 1946, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1963, 1973, 1977, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2021 * Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship: (0) ** Runner- Up 2009 * Offaly Senior Hurling Championships: (10) ** 1909, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1959, 1964, 2009 * Offaly Intermediate Football Championship (3) ** 1953, 1999, 2004 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championships: (3) ** 1929, 1933, 1989 * Offaly Junior Football Championship (8) ** 1907, 1930, 1942, 1949, 1972, 1984, 1993, 2013 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship The Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
