St Martin's GAA (County Wexford)
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St Martin's GAA club 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 located in
Murrintown Murrintown (), also spelled Murntown, is a small village located in the southeast of County Wexford, in Ireland, close to Wexford town. It is part of the parish of Piercestown. Murrintown village contains a pub, primary school, Roman Catholic c ...
in the Parish of Piercestown,
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 1932 and fields teams in both
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 ...
and
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 ...
. The women's arm of the club fields teams in both camogie and ladies' Gaelic football.


History

The club was founded in 1932 although an earlier club bearing that name, and playing in black in white, was established in Murrintown in 1912. It lost the county junior football final of 1913 and then, in 1914, it changed jerseys to green and yellow and its name to Michael Dwyers. The current club was established at a meeting in Piercestown National School in 1932. The club experienced intermittent success in its first 70 years and had to partner on occasion with other clubs such as St. Mary’s of Rosslare and Glynn-Barntown at underage and under 21 levels up to the mid 1980s. After a peripatetic existence, the club secured a permanent home in 1962 when part of the
Johnstown Castle Johnstown Castle is a Gothic Revival castle located in County Wexford, Ireland. Location Johnstown Castle is located on the Johnstown Castle Estate, a estate, located off the road between Murntown and Rathaspeck, southwest of Wexford town ...
Estate was made available. An Act of the Oireachtas in 1980 was passed to allow the formal sale of the ground to the Club. Between 1998 and 2004, an additional 10 acres was purchased from Johnstown Castle which facilitated the development of two additional pitches and a hurling wall. The camogie wing of the club was revived in 1983 while the ladies’ football club started in 2002. 2017 was a particularly significant year for both codes as the county senior camogie title was won for the first time and the ladies’ footballers won the intermediate championship to gain promotion to senior ranks. The senior camogie team retained its county title in 2018 and also won the Leinster crown, defeating Thomastown of Kilkenny in the final in Nowlan Park, Kilkenny on Sunday 18 November 2018 by 2-10 to 1-6. The team then defeated Inniscarra of Cork in the All Ireland semi-final on 27 January 2019 at the WIT grounds, Waterford, on a scoreline of 0-11 to 0-5. The All Ireland final took place in arctic snow and temperatures in Croke Park on 3 March 2019 where the defending champions, Slaughtneil of Derry, won by 1-9 to 0-7. Later in 2019, the camogie team won its third county title in a row as they defeated Oulart-The Ballagh after a replay. The Leinster Final also went to a replay and it was won by St. Vincent's of Dublin. The senior hurling team won the county final for the fourth time ever after a tough win against the neighbouring club of St. Anne's. Defending All Ireland club champions, Ballyhale Shamrocks of Kilkenny, proved far too strong in the subsequent Leinster semi-final which took place in Nowlan Park, Kilkenny.


Honours

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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 ...
: (4) 1999, 2008, 2017, 2019 *
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 ...
(2): 1964, 1977 * Wexford Intermediate Football Championship (4): 1982, 1994, 2006, 2011 *
Wexford Senior Football Championship The Wexford Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Wexford GAA clubs. The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1886. The 2024 champions are Castlet ...
(1): 2013 *
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 ...
(3): 1948, 1963, 2002, 2020 * Wexford Junior Football Championship (3): 1938, 1957, 2017 * Wexford Minor Hurling Championship (4): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 * Wexford Minor Football Championship (2): 2015, 2016 * Wexford Under-21 Hurling Championship: (3) 2014, 2016, 2017 * Wexford Under-20 Hurling Championship: (2) 2018, 2019 * Wexford Under-21 Football Championship: (3) 2007, 2009, 2017 * Wexford Under-20 Football Championship: (2) 2018, 2019 * Wexford Senior Camogie Championship (3): 2017, 2018, 2019 * Wexford Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship (2): 2017, 2018


Notable players

* Diarmuid Lyng *
Rory McCarthy Rory McCarthy (born 4 September 1975) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St Martin's and with the Wexford senior inter-county team. He played in the half-back line. Career McCarthy first played hurling ...
* John O'Connor (Wexford hurler) * Eoin Quigley * Mags Darcy *
Áine Codd Áine Codd is a camogie player, winner of an All-Star award in 2004 and an All Ireland medal in 2007. Career She played camogie for Presentation Wexford and was UCD camogie player of the year for 2001. She was nominated for further All Star a ...
* Noeleen Lambert * Tomás Waters * Jack O'Connor (Wexford hurler) *
Rory O'Connor (hurler) Rory O'Connor (born 1998) is an Irish hurler who plays for Wexford Senior Championship club St Martin's and at inter-county level with the Wexford senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a corner-forward. Early life Born in Piercesto ...
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George O'Connor (hurler) George O'Connor (born 1959 in Piercestown, County Wexford) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St Martin's and with the Wexford senior inter-county team from 1979 until 1996. In 2002, a six-person panel incl ...
* Ciarán Lyng *
Séamus Whelan Séamus Whelan (born 1938) is an Irish former hurling, hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level, he played with St Martin's GAA (County Wexford), St Martin's and at inter-county level with the Wexford county hurling team. Career Whelan firs ...
* Tomás M.E. Finn (hurler)


References


External links


St. Martin's GAA site
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