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Séamus Coughlan
James J. Coughlan (27 March 1953 – 9 February 2013), known as Séamus Coughlan, was an Irish Gaelic footballer and coach. At club level he played with Nemo Rangers and was also a member of the Cork senior football team. Early life Born and raised in Cork, Coughlan first played with Ballyphehane side Joseph Plunkett's that won city under-13 hurling and football titles, however, following an objection to an overage player, were not awarded medals. He was a contemporary of Carl Humphries and briefly played schoolboy soccer with Everton as a centre-forward. Coughlan attended Coláiste Chríost Rí and was a member of the school's senior football team that won the Corn Uí Mhuirí title in 1970 before later claiming the Hogan Cup after a defeat of a St Malachy's College team that featured Martin O'Neill. Club career After his juvenile playing days with the Ballyphehane outfit came to an end, Coughlan joined the Nemo Rangers club. His underage career began as a dual play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemo Rangers
Nemo Rangers Hurling & Football Club is a Cork-based Gaelic Athletic Association club on the southside of Cork city, Ireland. The club was founded in 1922 and is involved in Gaelic football, hurling, Ladies football and Camogie. History Nemo Rangers Hurling & Football Club was founded in 1922 following the amalgamation of two Cork clubs – Nemo and Rangers. Within six years the new club made their mark by winning the county Intermediate Hurling and Football Championships in 1928, a feat that has never been equalled. Since then Nemo have become notable as a football club, having won seven All-Ireland club football titles. Nemo have established close links with nearby secondary school, Coláiste Chríost Rí. Notable players Footballers * Billy Morgan * Dinny Allen * Frank Cogan * Jimmy Barrett * Brian Murphy * James Masters * Colin Corkery * Jimmy Kerrigan * Tony Nation * Mickey Niblock * Derek Kavanagh * Joe Kavanagh * Martin Cronin * Steven O'Brien * Shea Fahy * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Double (Gaelic Games)
The Double is a term in Gaelic games that refers to a county winning the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship in the same year. Other major trophies won in combination in the same year at minor or under-21 levels are also often referred to as doubles. Similarly, the winning of the All-Ireland and the National League titles in the same year may also be referred to as the Double, albeit an inferior one. The Double Historically it has been unusual for counties to be strong in both codes simultaneously. Indeed, historically many counties have tended to favour one code over the other long term. Dublin and Kerry, for example, have historically dominated football, but been weaker in hurling, while Kilkenny and Limerick are powerful in hurling, but much weaker in football. Only two counties have achieved this rare distinction at List of Gaelic games terminology#S, Senior level, both on two separate occasions; only Cork have done so in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dohenys GAA
Dohenys is a Gaelic Athletic Association club, fielding Gaelic football and Hurling teams in the town of Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. It won its only Cork Senior Club Football Championship in 1897. Other titles won include 2 Cork Intermediate Football Championships in 1972 and 1995, and 3 Cork Junior Football Championships in 1935, 1966, and 1993. In 2007, the club won its first ever county hurling championship when it won the Cork Junior B Hurling Championship. The club is part of the Carbery division of Cork. The Sam Maguire Cup which is presented to the All-Ireland winning football team each year is named after Dunmanway's most famous son, Sam Maguire who is buried in St. Mary's Graveyard. History Dohenys GAA club was founded in 1886. The first chairman of the club was a local national school teacher, John McCarthy. The club attended the first meeting of the Cork County Board and became the first affiliated club in west Cork. The official name adopted by the club was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCD GAA
UCD GAA or University College Dublin Gaelic Athletic Association club is a Dublin based Gaelic games club in University College Dublin. The UCD hurling club was founded in 1900 and boasted the mottos "Ad Astra" and "Cothrom Féinne". The first team was an amalgamation of students from UCD and Cecilia St. Although UCD had been playing Gaelic football unofficially since 1900, the official club history began in the season of 1911/1912. The football club competes in the Sigerson Cup and Higher Education Leagues as well as in the Dublin Senior Football Championship and the O'Byrne Cup. The hurling club competes in the Fitzgibbon Cup and Higher Education Leagues and occasionally in the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship and the Walsh Cup. The Camogie Club competes in the Ashbourne Cup. The ladies Gaelic football team competes in the O'Connor Cup. Former Dublin footballer Brian Mullins is the director of sport at UCD. Ger Brennan & Josh Warde are currently in charge of all Gaelic ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1974 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 86th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 27 January 1974. The championship began on 7 April 1974 and ended on 6 October 1974. University College Cork entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by St. Nicholas' in the first round. On 6 October 1974, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 2-08 to 1-08 defeat of Carbery in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1972. Carbery's Tony Murphy was the championship's top scorer with 0-22. Team changes To Championship Promoted from the Cork Intermediate Football Championship * Canovee From Championship Regraded to the Cork Intermediate Football Championship * Newcestown Newcestown () is a small village located 35 km from the city of Cork in the western part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Vincents GAA
St Vincents is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Marino, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland. The club was founded in 1931 in Marino, instrumental in the founding of the club were Rev Dr William Fitzpatrick (St Vincent de Paul Church, Marino) and Bro. Ernest Fitzgerald (Scoil Mhuire CBS, Marino). Although its club grounds were in Raheny for a number of years, it moved to its home back into Marino in 1987. St Vincents merged with Marino Camogie Club in 1997 to form the St Vincents Hurling, Football and Camogie Club. They have won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship on three occasions, most recently in 2014. They are the most successful side in the Dublin Senior Football championship having won the title 29 times. The club has also won 14 Dublin Senior 1 camogie titles (6 as Marino) and completed a three in a row in 2015–2017. Playing Grounds As well as using their own pitches at their clubhouse and ''Páirc Naomh Uinsionn'', the club uses pitches beside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972-73 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Cork Senior Football Championship
The 1972 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 84th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 30 January 1972. The championship ran from 7 April to 19 November 1972. Carbery entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were beaten by Muskerry in the quarter-finals. The final was played on 19 November 1972 at the Athletic Grounds in Cork between Nemo Rangers and University College Cork in what was their first ever meeting in the final. Nemo Rangers won the match by 2-09 to 0-08 to claim their first ever championship title. Dinny Allen was the championship's top scorer with 1-18. Team changes To Championship Promoted from the Cork Intermediate Football Championship * Newcestown Results First round Second round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Championship statistics Top scorers ;Top scorers overall ;To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCC GAA
UCC is a football and hurling club associated with University College Cork. UCC teams play in the Cork Senior Football Championship and Cork Senior Hurling Championship as well as the two main third-level competitions namely the Sigerson Cup in football, the Fitzgibbon Cup in hurling and the Ashbourne Cup in camogie. They also compete against inter-county sides in the pre-season McGrath Cup (football) and Waterford Crystal Cup (hurling). The piratical skull and crossbones logo on the team shirt, which first appeared on the rugby team of what was then known as Queen’s College Cork (composed mostly of medical students, hence the bones) was appropriated in the mid-1910s by the GAA clubs, and in 1929 by the UCC hockey club. Notable players ;Football * Johnny Buckley * Maurice Fitzgerald * Paul Galvin * Moss Keane * Billy Morgan * Séamus Moynihan * Ken O'Halloran * Jamie O'Sullivan ;Hurling * Pat Heffernan * Joe Deane * James "Cha" Fitzpatrick * Ray Cummins * Nicky English * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cork Senior Football Championship
The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association and contested by the top-ranking senior clubs and amalgamated teams in the county of Cork in Ireland, deciding the competition winners through a group and knockout format. It is the most prestigious competition in Cork Gaelic football. Introduced in 1887 as the Cork Senior Football Championship, it was initially a straight knockout tournament open only to senior-ranking club teams, with its winner reckoned as the Cork county champion. The competition took on its current name in 2020, adding a round-robin group stage for clubs and limiting the number divisional entrants to the championship proper. In its present format, the Cork Premier Senior Championship begins with a preliminary qualifying rou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship
The 1971 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 62nd staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 30 January 1972. The championship began on 11 April 1971 and ended on 7 November 1971. On 7 November 1971, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 4–11 to 2–03 defeat of Carrigtwohill in a final replay. This was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, J .... Team changes To Championship Promoted from the Cork Junior Hurling Championship * Cloughduv Entered their second team * Blackrock From Championship Promoted to the Cork Senior Hurling Championship * Cloyne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
