Ahane GAA is a

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club located in the Ahane,

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and Montpelier areas of east

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. The club fields teams in both hurling and football and historically is regarded as one of the great clubs of Limerick. Some other class players were the Mackey brothers, Mick and John and Jackie Power among others. A few of the Ahane players won the All-Ireland Senior hurling championship in 1934, 1936 and 1940 with

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, their leader being the peerless Mick Mackey, regarded as one of Ireland's greatest hurlers of all time. They won 15

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s in the 1930s and 1940s and also won 5

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s during this era.

History

Hurling

Honours

: 19 ** 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1955, 1998, 1999, 2004 *

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: 2 ** 1928, 1930 * Limerick Minor Hurling Championship: 4 ** 1930, 1940, 1991, 2014

Gaelic football

Honours

: 5 ** 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939

Bibliography

"Come on Ahane The Spuds are Boiling" by Sean Murphy, 2002.

Footnotes and sources

External links

Ahane GAA site
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