St Sylvester's is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...

club based in Malahide,

Fingal Fingal ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which ...

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. The club was founded in 1903 and last won the Dublin Senior Football Championship in 1996. The club plays

hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...

, Camogie and Men's and Women's

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

. In 1996, they became the only Fingal to win the Dublin Senior Football championship when under former Galway midfielder, Brian Talty, they defeated Erins Isle in the final.

Notable players

Senior inter-county men's footballers

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Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

* Keith Galvin * John Leonard * Niall Guiden * Glen O'Neill * Shay Keogh * Declan Barnes * Micheal Shiel ; Down colours

* Declan Rooney ; Colours of Cork

Louth * Darren Clarke * Benny Gaughran ; Galway colours

Galway Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...

* Niall Finnegan * Ray Silke * Brian Talty ; Limerick colours

Limerick Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...

* Tim Cummins

Senior inter-county ladies' footballers

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* Sinéad Aherne, Dublin County Captain * Niamh McEvoy *Nicole Owens *Kate Sullivan *Dannielle Lawless *Clodagh Fox

Achievements

References

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/fingal/the-year-it-all-came-right-for-st-sylvesters/40008104.html

External links

Official Club Website
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