St Brigid's Gaelic Athletic Club ( Irish: ) is a

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club from the

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area in

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. It was founded in 1998 by Dermot Dowling and Conor McSherry in the parish hall of St Brigid's Church. There was a strong need for a local GAA club to be set up as there were a huge potential number of people keen to get into the GAA in the Malone area.

History

The club has teams participating in Ladies GAA, Hurling & Football. The Senior football team participate in the ACL Division 1 and Senior Championship. In 2007, the club fielded their first senior

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 ...

team and won their 1st underage football championship against Gort na Móna at Under-14 level. In 2008 they saw the opening of Musgrave Park, by former GAA President

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Notable players

Senior inter-county players

Men's Gaelic football

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Antrim * James Loughrey, Deaghlan O'Hagan, Mark Sweeney, Ryan Daly, Dara Edwards, Patrick Finnegan, Ronan Boyle, Joseph Finnegan, Jack Dowling, Oran Downey, James Smith, John Morgan ; Colours of Cork

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* James Loughrey Colours of Cork

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* Shea Downey * Matthew Downey

External links

St Brigid's GAC
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