St Michael's Gaelic Football Club is a

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club in

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. The club was formed in 1951 after a discussion in The Leaping Salmon Public House in

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near Cork. At that time some of the

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played

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with different city teams and it was decided to enter a football team from Blackrock, thus keeping the players together. A formal meeting was held and St Michael's Gaelic Football Club was established.

Current Championship grades

History

St Michael's first match was against Crosshaven, with Jimmy Furlong as captain. The club's first success was in 1956 when St Michael's took their first

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title, and as there was no Intermediate Championship or League the club took the decision to go Senior in 1957. The club failed to win a Senior County Title in 1976, 1977, and 1978, but competed in finals during these years against St Finbarr's and

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, and won two Kelleher Shield Titles. Eventually the decision was made to drop down to Intermediate level. 1964 and 1965 saw the first honours to the younger members of the club with Minor titles in the county championships, and the best result at this level was in 1974 when the club won city and county league and championships. In 1998, the club won the

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, beating St Finbarr's in the final for their second Intermediate title (after their first in 1969), returning the club to the Senior ranks. St Michael's underage section began in the 1960s, led by Eamonn O'Donoghue with assistance from the chair of this age group, Bernard Hurley.

Achievements

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 Count ...

Runners-Up 1976, 1977, 1978 *

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Winners 2022 , Runner-Up 2021 * Kelleher Shield (Senior Football League Champions 1976, 1978 * Kelleher Shield Div 3 Champions 2009 *

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] Runners-Up 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

Winners (2) 1969, 1998 *

Winners (1) 1956 * Cork Minor Football Championship Winners (7) 1938 (as

), 1964, 1965, 1974, 2006, 2008 & 2018 * Cork Junior Football Championship#Junior B Inter-Divisional Football Championship, Cork Junior B Inter-Divisional Football Championship Winners (1) 2019 * Cork City Junior Football Championship Winners (4) 1952, 1953, 1956, 1987 Runners-Up 1954, 1955, 1983 * Munster Club Division 2 Championship Winners (1) 2005 * Cork City Under-21 Football Championship Winners (2) 1976, 2006 *

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Winners (2) 1976, 2019 * City Minor Premier Football Championship Winners 1974 * City Minor A City Football Championship Winners (3) 1999, 2002, 2009 * Minor A Football League Winners (1) 1999

Famous players

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* Billy Field

References

External links

Official St Michael's Gaelic Football Club website
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