Waterville GAA is a

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

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

club in Waterville, south

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. Former

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player & manager

Mick O'Dwyer Michael O'Dwyer (born 9 June 1936) is an Irish retired Gaelic football manager and former player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager an ...

is from the club. The club grounds have gone under a major renovation in the recent years with a gym, clubhouse and state of the art floodlights.

Achievements

Kerry Senior Football Championship The Kerry Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Garvey’s SuperValu Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 188 ...

Runners-Up 1968, 1969, 1970 *

South Kerry Senior Football Championship South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

- 11 titles * Kerry County Football League – Division 1 - 1971 * All-Ireland Football Sevens hosted by Kilmacud Crokes - 1974 *

Kerry Intermediate Football Championship The Kerry Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Kerry GAA clubs. Rathmore are the title holders (2022).. Teams 2022 Teams Honours The winners can be promoted to play in the Kerry ...

- 1993

Notable players

Denis O'Dwyer Denis Dwyer is a footballer from Waterville in south County Kerry. He played Wing Forward on the Kerry team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship 1997 & was a sub on the 2000 team. He has also won All Irelands at Minor in 199 ...

Karl O'Dwyer Karl O'Dwyer is a former footballer from Waterville in South Co Kerry. He played with the Kerry team that were shocked by Clare in the final of the 1992 Munster Senior Football Championship. He later played with Kildare and had much success w ...

Mick O'Connell Michael O'Connell (born 4 January 1937) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. Throughout his 25-year club career, he played for Valentia Young Islanders GAA, Young Islanders, winning seven South Kerry Championship titles during a golden age fo ...

References

External links

Official Waterville GAA Club website
Gaelic games clubs in County Kerry Gaelic football clubs in County Kerry {{Kerry-GAA-club-stub