The Wicklow county hurling team represents

Wicklow Wicklow ( ; , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; ) is the county town of County Wicklow in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the east of Ireland, south of Dublin. According to the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, it had ...

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 is governed by

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

, the

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of the

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. The team competes in the Christy Ring Cup and the

National Hurling League The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the l ...

. Wicklow's home ground is Echelon Park, Aughrim. The team's manager is Jonathan O'Neill. The team has never won the Leinster Senior Championship, the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League.

History

Wicklow won the All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship in 1967 and 1971. Wicklow won the

Kehoe Cup The Kehoe Cup ( ; ) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Leinster GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA) since 1977 for second- and third-tier inter county, inter-county teams in ...

on seven occasions: in 1989, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Panel

^INJ Player has had an injury which has affected recent involvement with the county team.
^RET Player has since retired from the county team.
^WD Player has since withdrawn from the county team due to a non-injury issue.

Management team

''Appointed January 2024'': *

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: Jonathan O'Neill

Managerial history

Efforts to find a manager to replace Michael Neary led the Wicklow County Board to advertise the position in the national media in early 2005. Michael Neary Dublin 2000–2004 Willie Carley Wexford 2005–2006 Michael Nearyⁱ Dublin 2006 Brendan Cuddihy 2006 John Mitchell 2006–2008 Michael Phelan 2009 Casey O'Brien 2009–2015 Martin Storey Wexford 2015–2016 Séamus Murphy Wexford 2016–2018

Éamonn Scallan Éamonn Scallan (born 1972) is an Irish hurling coach and former player. At club level, he played with Castletown Liam Mellows GAA, Castletown Liam Mellows and Ferns St Aidan's GAA, Ferns St Aidan's and at inter-county level was a member of the ...

Wexford 2018–2022 Casey O'Brien Wicklow 2022–2024 Jonathan O'Neill Wicklow 2024–

Crest and colours

Wicklow's traditional team colours are

royal blue Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue. It is said to have been created by a consortium of mills in Rode, Wiltshire (in Somerset as of 1937), which won a competition to make a robe for Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III. I ...

and gold. The kits are usually blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks with a gold trim. Wicklow's alternative jersey is white with blue shorts and blue socks. The Wicklow crest features the roundtower of

Glendalough Glendalough (; ) is a glacial valley in County Wicklow, Ireland, renowned for an Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by St Kevin. From 1825 to 1957, the head of the Glendalough Valley was the site of a galena lead min ...

in the foreground surrounded by a large 'W' standing for the name of the county. In the background of the crest is a green mountain, representing the

Wicklow Mountains The Wicklow Mountains (, archaic: '' Cualu'') form the largest continuous upland area in Ireland. They occupy the whole centre of County Wicklow and stretch outside its borders into the counties of Dublin, Wexford and Carlow. Where the mountai ...

and below is a hand holding a

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and a hurley and

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Team sponsorship

W H Scott Lifting became Wicklow's Hurling shirt sponsor ahead of the 2017 season.

Honours

National

* All-Ireland Senior B Hurling Championship ** Winners (1): 2003 ** Runners-up (2): 1995, 2002 * All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship ** Runners-up (1): 1971 * All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship ** Winners (2): 1967, 1971 * Christy Ring Cup ** Runners-up (2):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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Nicky Rackard Cup The Nicky Rackard Cup (; often referred to as the Rackard Cup) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The cup forms the fourth-tier of Hurling for senior county teams (the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champi ...

** Winners (3):

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* National Hurling League Division 2B ** Winners (2):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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* National Hurling League Division 3A ** Winners (1):

* National Hurling League Division 3B ** Winners (1):

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

* All-Ireland Under 21 B Hurling Championship ** Winners (1):

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Provincial

** Winners (7): 1989, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 * Kehoe Shield ** Winners (1):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship ** Winners (1): 1971 * Leinster Junior Hurling Championship ** Winners (5): 1954, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971

References

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