Seán McDermott's GFC is a

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club in Mountrush, a townland in the civil parish of

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, County Louth, Ireland, which fields teams in competitions organised by

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. 'The Seán's' compete in the Louth Junior Championship and Division 3 of the all county football League. Bryan Sharkey is the senior team

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History

The club is named after

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republican

Seán Mac Diarmada Seán Mac Diarmada (27 January 1883 – 12 May 1916), also known as Seán MacDermott, was an Irish republican political activist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, which he helped to organ ...

, who was executed for his participation in the

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of 1916. Players are drawn from the neighbouring Ardee townlands of Cookstown and Mountrush. In 1974, the club won the county Junior 'Double' of League and

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titles. Dundalk Young Irelands were defeated in the MacArdle Cup final, while in the Championship title match, the Sean's triumphed over

neighbours St Mary's, on a scoreline of 0–07 to 0–05. The club has reached the final of the Louth Intermediate Championship twice and lost both times, to Stabannon Parnells in 1989 and Naomh Fionnbarra of Togher in 2001, after a replay. In 2022, the club reached the final of the Kevin Mullen Plate competition, only to be beaten by Stabannon Parnells.

Inter-county players

*Éamonn and Noel Cluskey – brothers who represented

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in the

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during the 1980s. Noel won a Leinster Under-21 Championship medal in 1981 as part of the county team that defeated

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in the provincial final. *Tony Breen

Honours

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(1): 1974 * Louth Junior A Football League (3): 1974, 2000, 2005 * Kevin Mullen Shield (2): 2000, 2005 * Louth Junior 2A Football Championship (1): 1958 * Louth Junior 2A Football League (1): 1952 * Louth Junior 2 Football League (Division 4C) (1): 2004 * Louth Junior 2 Football League (Division 4D) (1): 2003

References

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