Innisfails GAA is a

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club in based in

Balgriffin Balgriffin ( ga, Baile Ghrífín, meaning "Griffin's town") is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It lies within southern Fingal in the traditional County Dublin and it is partly in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council and partly that of Fingal C ...

, Fingal. The club fields teams at adult men's football level and has a free nursery for children aged 4–7 years of age along with an under 8s & 9s team. During the

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, the '' Irish Independent'' published photographs of a coach-led group of

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members, including

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Brian Fenton, whom it reported had gathered at Innisfails GAA club before 7am on the previous morning. The session occurred around 12 hours after the GAA sent a note to each club and county, warning that any club or county team ignoring the collective training ban could risk putting the GAA's intentions to return to action "in serious jeopardy". That evening, after investigating the accuracy of the report, Dublin GAA suspended its own football team manager

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for 12 weeks with immediate effect. The incident provoked much public commentary from politicians and sportspeople.

Honours

Dublin Junior Football Championship The Dublin Junior Football championship is the Junior Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic football competition of Dublin. The winners of the Junior championship go on to qualify for the Dublin Intermediate Football Championship. The winners wil ...

; 1937, 1943, 1973, 2001 *

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: 1984

References

{{Dublin clubs Gaelic games clubs in Fingal Gaelic football clubs in Fingal