Ferns St Aidan'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

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County Wexford County Wexford () 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 Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. Named after the town of Wexford, it was ba ...

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. The club was founded in 1886 and fields teams in

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 ...

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 ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

Overview

Facilities

Ferns St Aidan's has three full-sized adult pitches (one of which is the exact dimensions of

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, and is regularly used by county teams for training) as well as a smaller, underage, pitch. The club also have a hurling wall for practice sessions, a clubhouse with four dressing rooms and a meeting room, two tennis courts and a walkway around the grounds.

Teams

Ferns St Aidan's field various teams in hurling, Gaelic football, and camogie at all age groups from under-8 right up to adult level. It is estimated that there are in the region of 300 players involved in the club altogether.

Achievements

Wexford Senior Hurling Championship The Wexford Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Pettitt's SuperValu Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Wexford GAA clubs. The Wexford GAA, Wexford County Board of the ...

s: 1 ** 2022 *

Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship The Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as The Courtyard Ferns Intermediate Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by mid-tier Wexford GAA clubs. It is the 2nd tier of the Wexford GAA ...

s: 6 ** 1958, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1998, 2007 *

Wexford Junior Hurling Championship The Wexford Junior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Permanent TSB Junior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by lower-tier Wexford GAA clubs. It is the 4th tier of the Wexford GAA hurling ch ...

s: 5 ** 1912, 1932, 1952, 1956, 1958 * Wexford Junior Football Championships: 2 ** 1952, 1993 * Wexford Under-21 Hurling Championships: 2 ** 2005, 2007 * Wexford Minor Football Championships: 1 ** 1958 * Wexford Minor Hurling Championships: 4 ** 1957, 1958, 1965, 2004

Notable players

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Éamonn Scallan Éamonn Scallan (born 1972) is an Irish hurling coach and former player. At club level, he played with Castletown Liam Mellows GAA, Castletown Liam Mellows and Ferns St Aidan's GAA, Ferns St Aidan's and at inter-county level was a member of the ...

1996 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winner.

References

External links

Ferns St Aidan's GAA Club
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