Munster vs Ulster (hurling) - Railway Cup 2008

The Limerick County Board of the

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, and is responsible for Gaelic games in

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. The county board is also responsible for the Limerick county teams. The county hurling team are the current All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) title holders, and have the fourth highest total of titles, behind Kilkenny,

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. The county football team was the first from the

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of Munster both to win an

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(SFC), as well as to appear in the final. As of 2009, there were 108 clubs affiliated to Limerick GAA — the third highest, alongside Antrim.

Hurling

Clubs

Clubs contest the following competitions: *

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* Limerick Intermediate Hurling Championship * Limerick Junior Hurling Championship * Limerick Minor Hurling Championship * Limerick Under-21 Hurling Championship The senior competition's most successful club is

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, with 20 titles. Ahane has 19 titles.

County team

Limerick's first outright success in hurling was achieved when the Kilfinane club defeated Kilkenny GAA club

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of the

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(SHC). At that time, counties were represented by champion clubs. Limerick won the 1918 All-Ireland SHC, then repeated the feat in the 1921 All-Ireland SHC when the team won the inaugural

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. The team that achieved those wins featured many players who contested eight consecutive Munster Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) finals (1917–1924 inclusive), a record that has never been equalled. The team won five consecutive National Hurling League (NHL) titles during the 1930s, a record still unequalled. Those titles were won in 1933–34, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1936–37 and 1937–38. Limerick also won four consecutive Munster SHC titles, and remains the only team other than

to have done so. After winning All-Ireland SHC titles in 1934 and in 1936, another All-Ireland SHC title followed in 1940. The team from this era did much to raise the profile of the sport: whereas around 30,000 people attended the 1930 All-Ireland SHC Final, attendances had risen to 50,000 by the 1940 final and players such as the Mackeys (

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), Ryans (

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and

), Clohesseys (

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and Paddy),

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and Paddy Scanlon were recalled for decades afterwards. Victory in 1940 left Limerick with six All-Ireland SHC titles and as the only team from outside the "big three" (Cork,

and Kilkenny) to have won more than one All-Ireland SHC title.

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had at that stage also six All-Ireland SHC titles but no native of that county had played on any of its winning teams. Limerick won a sixth NHL title in 1946–47 but success soon became a rarity. Limerick won the 1970–71 NHL title and soon followed this by winning the 1973 All-Ireland SHC, its seventh title. Four further NHL titles followed that century: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1991–92 and, lastly,

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. The 2018 season concluded with Limerick winning the 2018 All-Ireland SHC, the team's first since 1973, with a 3–16 to 2–18 point defeat of Galway in

. The team built on this success, winning the NHL in

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and

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, the Munster SHC in

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and

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and the All-Ireland SHC again in

and

Football

Clubs

Clubs contest the

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. That competition's most successful club is Claughaun with 14 titles.

County team

Limerick won the very first

in 1887 and repeated this success in 1896, when it became the first non-

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team to beat the then all-conquering

in a championship match. Limerick currently play in Division 2 of the

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. Between 1953 and 1964, Limerick did not play in the Munster Football Championship.

Camogie

Limerick contested the

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final of 1980, losing to Cork in a replay. They first contested Munster championship in 1922-4, but the game struggled and had to undergo further revivals in 1932, 1947 and 1960, when Chris O'Connell, Carrie Gillane and Eithne Neville re-established it. This culminated in the county team's appearance in the

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of 1977 and Limerick's appearance in the

final of 1980, where they lost to Cork in a replay. Three Limerick clubs have won the

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, Granagh-Ballingarry (3), Ballyagran (1978) and Croagh Kilfinny(1975). Notable players include All Star award winners Rose Collins, Eileen O'Brien and Vera Sheehan, young player of the year for 2007 Niamh Mulcahy. and

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, Agnes Hourigan from Ballingarry and Eithne Neville from Kilfinny who won

medals with Dublin in 1938 and 1957 respectively. Chris O'Connell and Agnes Hourigan served as

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of the

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. Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion", five new camogie clubs were to be established in the county by 2015. Limerick have the following achievements in camogie. *

Runners-Up 1980 *

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Winners 1996, 2007, 2014 Runners-Up 2000, 2002, 2013 *

Winners 1977, 1995 Runners-Up 1988, 1994, Junior A Winners 2014 *

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Runners-Up 1978, 1979, 2002 *

Div 2/Junior Winners 1991, 1992, 1996, 2007, 2013, Div 4 Winners 2014 *

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A Winners 2014, B Winners 2009, 2011 * All Ireland under-16 B Winners 2001, 2002, 2011

Ladies' football

Limerick has a ladies' football team.

References

External links

Limerick GAA site

Limerick
on Hoganstand.com
National and provincial titles won by Limerick teams

Fr. Casey's GAA Club, Abbeyfeale

Milford GAA Club, Castletroy, Limerick

Mountcollins Gaa Club
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