St Brigid's GAA Club (Irish: Cumann Naomh Bríd) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in

Castleknock Castleknock () is an affluent suburb located west of the centre of Dublin city, Ireland. It is centered on the village of the same name in Fingal. In addition to the suburb, the name "Castleknock" also refers to older units of land division: ...

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, Ireland which serves

, Clonsilla, Blanchardstown and

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. Its main grounds are at Russell Park, and it also has grounds in Castleknock at Beech Park and College Fort. The club supports 70 teams, from nursery level (four- to seven-year-olds) to adults, in

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camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...

, women's football,

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and badminton. In 2003, St Brigid's GAA won their first Dublin Senior Football Championship and Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The club won their second Dublin Senior Football Championship in 2011, but lost the year's Leinster Final to Garrycastle in an injury-time free goal. St Brigid's senior hurlers lost the 2003 Senior A Hurling final to Craobh Chiarán and the 2019 final to Cuala. The team lost in the semi-finals in 2011 and 2013. St Brigid's senior hurlers won the Senior B and AHL 2 League titles in 2010 and 2014. The club has rivalries with the Castleknock GAA and Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh GAA clubs. Dual All Ireland Handball Senior Singles champion Eoin Kennedy is a club member. In 2007, Justin McNulty was manager. In 2013,

Tony McEntee Tony McEntee (born 30 June 1977) is a Gaelic football manager and former player. He has managed the senior Sligo county team since 2020. McEntee played for the Crossmaglen Rangers club and at senior level for the Armagh county team. He won A ...

was appointed as manager of the St Brigid's senior football team, succeeding Gerry McEntee and Mark Byrne. Jack Chambers, who served as Minister for Sport from 2020, is a member of the club.

Honours

* 1958:

Dublin Intermediate Football Championship ''See also Dublin Senior Football Championship'' The Dublin Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition organised by Dublin GAA between second-tier Gaelic football clubs in County Dublin, Ireland. Qua ...

* 1979: Dublin Junior Hurling League Division 2 champions * 1976: Dublin Intermediate Hurling League and

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* 1980: Dublin Intermediate Football champions * 1986: Dublin Intermediate A

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champions * 1988: Loving Cup Intermediate Football and Murphy Cup winners * 1990: Dublin Under-16 Football and Hurling League champions * 1991: Dublin Under-15 Football championship * 1993: Dublin Minor Football Premier League champions * 1994: Dublin Under-16 and Minor Football Premier League champions * 1995: Dublin Under-16 and Minor Football champions * 1996: Dublin Under-15, Ladies Under-14 and Under-18 champions and Camogie Under-14 Feile winners * 1997: World, All-Ireland and Leinster handball champions, Dublin Junior 5 Football League Sheridan Cup, Dublin Under-16 Football Championship, Dublin Minor B Football Championship, Dublin Ladies Football Under-16 and Under-18 Championships, Dublin Under-15

Hurling 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 p ...

Shield and Dublin Under-10/11/12/12/14 football and hurling league champions * 1998: Dublin Under-11 League Division 1, St. Vincent de Paul Senior Football League, and Dublin Minor B Football Shield champions * 1999: Dublin Under-12 League Division 1 champions,

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, Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 champions, Dublin Under 15-B Hurling Championship, Dublin Intermediate Camogie Championship, Under-16 South/West Region Football Championship, Dublin Minor Ladies Football Championship * 2000: Dublin Under-13 League Division 1 champions, Dublin Junior Hurling Championship, Dublin Ladies Football Minor Championship, Ladies Football Under-16 Championship * 2001: Dublin Under-14 League Division 1, Under-14 Dublin Feile Division 1, and Under-14 All-Ireland Feile Division 1 champions * 2002: Dublin Under-12 Football Championship, Dublin Under 15 Juvenile Hurling Championship, and Dublin Under-16 A and B League champions * 2003: Dublin Minor Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Football Championship, Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, Dublin AFL Division 8 champions, Dublin Junior C Football Championship, Dublin Junior C Football Championship * 2004: Dublin Under-11 and Under-12 Ladies Football champions and Dublin Junior 3 Football League title * 2005: Ladies Dublin Intermediate Championship, Dublin Junior Hurling Championship,

, Dublin Minor Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 Champions * 2006: Dublin Junior B Football Championship, Stacey Cup and Dublin AFL Division 6 winners * 2007: Dublin AFL Division 5 winners * 2008: Dublin Junior A Hurling Championship * 2009: Barney McGarrell Perpetual Cup winners, Dublin and Leinster Ladies Football Champions * 2010: Dublin Junior A Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football League Division 2 champions,

, Dublin Minor C Hurling Championship * 2011: Dublin Minor B Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Football Championship * 2012: Dublin Senior 2 and Senior 7 Camogie championships * 2013: Dublin AHL 5 League Hurling and Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 champions * 2014: Dublin Minor B hurling and

champions

Notable players

Senior inter-county men's footballers

* Dublin ** Peadar Andrews **

Kevin Bonner Kevin Bonner is a Gaelic footballer who has played for the Dublin county team. The son of Donegal footballing legend Seamus Bonner, he plays his club football for St Brigid's. Career Early years: 2006 - 2008 Bonner made his championship debut ...

** Paddy Andrews ** Barry Cahill ** Declan Lally **

Sean Murray Sean Murray may refer to: * Sean Murray (field hockey) (born 1997), Lisnagarvey player and senior Ireland international * Sean Murray (footballer, born 1993), Dundalk FC player and Irish youth international * Sean Murray (Gaelic footballer), Dubli ...

** Graham Norton **

Shane Supple Shane Supple (born 4 May 1987) is an Irish coach and former Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. In 2015, he made a return to competitive football, after initially retiring in 2009, by ...

* Laois: John O'Loughlin * Leitrim: Emlyn Mulligan

Senior inter-county hurlers

*Dublin **

Alan Nolan Alan Nolan (born 4 June 1985) is a Hurling, hurler for Dublin GAA, Dublin and St Brigid's GAA (Dublin), St Brigid's. He was named on the Dublin Blue Stars team for 2006. Career statistics Honours ;Dublin *Leinster Senior Hurling Championshi ...

Daire Plunkett Daire Plunkett (born 24 January 1990) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club St Brigid's and has been a member of the Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a ...

Andrew Dunphy Andrew Dunphy (born 2000) is an Irish hurling, hurler who plays for Dublin Senior Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Championship club St Brigid's GAA (Dublin), St. Brigid's and at inter-county level with the Dublin senior hurling team. He usual ...

** Cian O'Sullivan

Handball players

Dublin: Eoin Kennedy

Senior inter-county ladies' footballers

Dublin: Noëlle Healy

Others

Sarah Hawkshaw Sarah Hawkshaw (born 4 November 1995) is an Ireland women's field hockey international. She has also played for Railway Union in the Women's Irish Hockey League and for UMass Minutewomen in the NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship. Early ...

Ireland women's national field hockey team The Ireland women's national field hockey team is organised by Hockey Ireland and represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in international women's field hockey competitions, including the Women's Hockey World Cup and the Wom ...

References

External links

St Brigids GAA ClubRoad to 2003 Leinster Final
{{Dublin clubs Castleknock Gaelic games clubs in Fingal Gaelic football clubs in Fingal Hurling clubs in Fingal