Keady Lámh Dhearg Hurling Club () is a

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club located in the town of

Keady Keady () is a town and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is south of Armagh and near the border with the Republic of Ireland. It is situated mainly in the historic barony of Armagh with six townlands in the barony of Tiranny ...

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. The club, affiliated to

Armagh GAA The Armagh County Board () or Armagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in Ireland, and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The county board is resp ...

, is almost exclusively concerned with the game of

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 ...

; a sister club,

Keady Michael Dwyer's GFC Keady Michael Dwyer's Gaelic Football Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is affiliated to Armagh GAA and plays Gaelic football in the Armagh Intermediate Championship. A sister club, Kea ...

, provides for

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History

Predecessor hurling clubs in Keady were Éire Óg, which won the

Armagh Senior Hurling Championship The Armagh Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Armagh GAA clubs. Hurling has always been more popular in the north and west of the county. Camlough and Bessbrook are the only south Armagh clubs to h ...

in 1927, 1932 and 1933, and Michael Dwyer's, which won the SHC in 1935, 1936 and 1937 but has since become a football-only club. Keady Lámh Dhearg was established in 1949, and from 1990 has taken over from Cúchulainn's of

Armagh Armagh ( ; , , " Macha's height") is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All ...

city as the dominant force in Armagh hurling.

Honours

(23) **1949, 1965, 1972, 1975, 1978, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2018 *

Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship The Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the AIB Ulster GAA Hurling Intermediate Club Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Ulster GAA, Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

(1) **2007

Camogie

Keady Lámh Dhearg also fields

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 ...

teams at several age levels, however their camogie team is actually called St. Patrick's Camogie Club Keady, and are one of the most successful teams in Armagh, and Ulster. In 2015, their u14 team won the All-Ireland title.

External links

Keady Lámh Dhearg GAA site
Gaelic games clubs in County Armagh Hurling clubs in County Armagh 1949 establishments in Northern Ireland {{Ulster-GAA-club-stub