St Vincent's Hurling and Football Club is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

club based in the Blarney Street and

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parts of

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. It also includes in its catchment area Gurranabraher, Churchfield and Knocknaheeny. Teams are fielded in

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by ki ...

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of pla ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) 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 of hurling (which is played by men only ...

. The club participates in

Cork GAA The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Chorcaí) or Cork GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork and the ...

competitions and in Seandún board competitions. The greatest achievements in the club's history was winning the 1968

Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board ...

and the 2006 & 2012 Premier Intermediate Football Championship. As a result, they were promoted to senior status after both Premier Intermediate Football Championship wins but were not able to maintain senior status. The club now plays in the Premier Intermediate Football Championship and Junior A Hurling Championship.

History

In 1943 St Vincent's Hurling and Football Club was founded to promote Gaelic games in the Blarney Street and Sundays Well areas on the North West side of Cork City. Later, as the city grew, their catchment area expanded to encompass Gurranabraher, Churchfield and Knocknaheeny. From small beginnings few could have imagined that Cumman Uinsinn Naofa would develop so quickly to become such a thriving and successful club in such a short period of time. By 1946 the club had won the Junior Football County Final and boasted to being one of the first clubs in the county to own their own pitch. The grounds would be redeveloped on a couple of occasions over the decades culminating in the activities from the early nineties which have seen the building of a state of the art complex housing several dressing rooms, meeting rooms, a large training hall, 3 adult size pitches and a social club in Blarney Rd. An all-weather pitch has recently been installed and there are plans to install floodlighting on one of the adult pitches. On the playing side, the club has won numerous honours over the years at all levels including the intermediate hurling county title in 1968 and a senior hurling league in 1972. Recent years has heralded great success at underage level with various teams winning honours at the premier and A grades. The highlight of this has been the winning of the Minor Premier County in 1998. These players would go on to join with members of other successful underage teams from the 90’s to help the club win its first intermediate football title in 2006, and a second one came in quick succession in 2012. The club celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2018. The club this year is marking the centenary of the 'Ballycannon Boy's' six young Irish Volunteers killed by British Crown Forces at Kerry Pike near Clogheen Co. Cork as well as the centenary of Alderman Tadhg Barry shot and killed by a British Army sentry while interned at Ballykinlar Camp in Co. Down, St. Vincent's in years gone by had juvenile teams named after Irish patriots.

Achievements

Cork Senior Football Championship The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Premier Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork Count ...

Runners-Up 1948 *

Winners (1) 1968 Runners-Up 1959, 1960 *

Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Bon Secours Cork County Premier Intermediate Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PIFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the ...

Winners (2) 2006, 2012 Runners-Up 2008 * Munster Intermedite Club Football Championship Runners-Up 2012 *

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork County Board of ...

Winners (1) 1946 * Cork Premier Minor Football Championship Winners (1) 1998 * Cork Minor Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1957 * Cork Minor B Football Championship Winners (1) 1990 Runners-Up 1991 * Cork Minor B Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1986 * Cork City Junior Hurling Championship Winners (3) 1951, 1954, 1957 Runners-Up 1953, Runners-up 2021 * Cork City Junior Football Championship Winners (3) 1946, 1950, 1966 Runners-Up 1945, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1987, * Cork City Junior C Football Championship Winners (1) 2021

Notable Club Members

* Paddy Barry - hurling goalkeeper with Cork. 1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning captain. *

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– a Republic of Ireland international footballer * Paddy O'Shea - reserve goalkeeper on Cork football panel that won the All Ireland in 2010 and holder of Div 1 and 2 National League medals and 3 Munster Championship medals. *

Seán Óg Murphy John Francis "Seán Óg" Murphy (17 September 1892 – 11 June 1956) was an Irish hurler who played as a full-back for the Cork senior team. Born in Merchant Street, Cork, Murphy first played competitive hurling during his schooling at the N ...

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External links

St Vincent's website

Cork GAA results
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