Éanna Basketball Club is an Irish
basketball
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club based in
Dublin
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. The club's senior men's representative team,
Griffith College Éanna, is currently a member of Ireland's top national league, the
Super League
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.
History
Éanna Basketball was set up by ex
Coláiste Éanna
Coláiste Éanna is a secondary school for boys under the trusteeship of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust in Ballyroan, Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1967 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers to serve the needs of the Ballyroan and adjace ...
players in the division two Dublin Men's Basketball League in 2005. In 2009, Éanna amalgamated with the highly successful underage club Notre Dame, adding a junior programme which grew the club to 13 teams including the senior teams.
The 2014–15 season saw the club enter a senior men's team into the National League for the first time; the team placed third in its first season.
In 2015, the team was elevated into the
Premier League
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. In 2018, the team was demoted to Division One. After winning the National League Division One in 2018–19, the team was promoted back into the Super League.
In January 2020, the Super League team made it to the National Cup final, where they lost 78–68 to
Templeogue
Templeogue is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south.
Geography Location
Templeogue is from Dublin city centre t ...
. In January 2023, the Super League team returned to the National Cup final, where they lost 74–69 to Maree. They went on to finish on top of the Northern Conference ladder for the 2022–23 season before losing to Ballincollig in the quarter-finals.
In April 2024, the club won their first men's Super League championship with a 93–61 win over
Killester
Killester () is a small residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland on the Northside of the city in the Dublin 3 and Dublin 5 postal districts. It was the site of a church and convent or monastery centuries ago, and later a small village developed. ...
in the final.
References
External links
Official website
{{Irish Super League
Super League (Ireland) teams
Basketball teams in County Dublin