Doon GAA club is a

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club, founded in 1888. It is based in the village of Doon in

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. The club is part of the East Division of the

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and has a tremendous record at underage level, but has yet to win a County Senior Hurling Championship. The club only plays hurling, but footballers in the parish play with neighbouring

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. The manager is Austin Buckley.

Location

The club is located in the parish of Doon, mostly in

but also containing a few townlands in

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; these can play with the other club in the parish, Glengar, which is affiliated to the Tipperary GAA County Board. As Oola is only a football club, hurlers from the parish play with Doon. The club is roughly 30 km east of Limerick City. Bordering clubs include

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, Pallasgreen and Doon's sister club

in Limerick, and Seán Treacy's,

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and Solohead in Tipperary.

History

The club was founded in 1888; it is one of the oldest clubs in the county. The club took part in competitions both in east Limerick and also in west Tipperary during the later years of the 19th century. The club's senior hurling team defeated Ahane on Sunday 18 November 2007 in Caherconlish, to become East Limerick Senior Hurling Champions, 2007. They once again received the Sean Cunningham Cup. Doon have twice reached the final of the

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, losing to Ballybrown in 1989 and

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(by only one point) in 2000. In 1973 a Doon player, Willy Moore, was present in the Limerick team which beat

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to win the

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. Doon GAA's under-21 team reached the final of the Limerick Under-21 Hurling Championship in 2004 and lost, but returned to the final in 2005 and beat Adare to take the championship for the first time. Doon's success at an underage level is outstanding, winning every county "A" title at each grade.

Grounds

The GAA pitch is located just off the main street on the Toher road. The grounds were opened in 1994 and dressing rooms were completed in 2002. The facilities include a full-sized pitch with nets behind each goal, an underage sized pitch with nets behind each goal, a covered stand, four dressing rooms and a hurling wall.

Honours

Runners-Up (3): 1989, 2000, 2018, 2020 * Limerick Senior Hurling League (4): 1993, 2003, 2005, 2008 * Limerick Senior Hurling Cup (2): 1993, 2010 * Limerick Junior A Hurling Championship (2): 1937, 1941 * Limerick Junior A Hurling League (3): 2003, 2009, 2014 * Limerick Junior A Football Championship (1): 1928 * Limerick Junior B Hurling Championship (2): 1994, 2014 * Limerick Junior B Hurling League (4): 1994, 1995, 2009, 2014 * Limerick Under-21 Hurling Championship (7): 1966, 1967, 1982, 2005, 2019, 2020, 2021 * Limerick Minor Hurling Championship (12): 1946, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1970, 1976, 1979, 1995, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2015

Notable players

Richie English Richard English (born 1995) is an Irish hurler who plays as a left corner-back for club side Doon and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. Early life English was born in Doon, County Limerick. His cousin, Darragh Fi ...

* Willie Moore *

Darragh O'Donovan Darragh O'Donovan (born 1995) is an Irish hurler who plays as a midfielder for club side Doon and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. His partner is well known Cork All-Ireland Winning Camogie Captain Ashling Thompson ...

* Pat Ryan *

Adam English Adam English (born 2003) is an Irish hurler who plays for Limerick Senior Championship club Doon and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a forward. Career English first played hurling at ju ...

- Limerick U-21 2015 and Current senior player *

- Limerick U-21 2015 * Barry Murphy - Limerick U-21 2017 * Pat Ryan - Limerick U-21 2015 *

Mikey O'Brien Michael O'Brien (born 1999) is an Irish hurler who plays for the Limerick Senior Championship club Doon and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a left wing-back. Honours ;Doon *Limerick Premi ...

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