Antrim GAA

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Antrim GAA
Jack McGrath Cup

The Antrim County Board of the

county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
. The county board is also responsible for the Antrim county teams.

The

1912
.

As of 2009, there were 108 clubs affiliated to Antrim GAA — the third highest, alongside Limerick.[1]

Hurling

Clubs

Further information: List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland § Antrim

Clubs contest the Antrim Senior Hurling Championship.

Antrim's first All-Star,

1989 club hurling final
and put in a great show against Buffer's Alley. Dunloy were back in the All-Ireland club final in 1995, when they lost in a replay, 1996 and 2003 when they were heavily beaten.

County team

Main article: Antrim county hurling team

Antrim is the only Ulster county to appear in an

1989.[2]

Football

Clubs

Further information: List of Gaelic games clubs in Ireland § Antrim

Clubs contest the Antrim Senior Football Championship.

County team

Main article: Antrim county football team

The county team was the first in the province of Ulster to appear in an All-Ireland final, in 1911 and repeated the feat again in 1912, losing on both occasions.

The county team has won the Ulster Senior Football Championship on ten occasions: 1900, 1901, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1946 and 1951.[3]

A drawn Ulster SFC semi-final with Derry in 2000 was one of the highlights of Antrim's football at inter-county level, alongside winning the 2008 Tommy Murphy Cup, beating Wicklow in the final and gaining revenge for losing the 2007 final to the same opponents. Antrim reached the 2009 Ulster SFC final, the first Antrim team to do so for 31 years. The team lost to the 2008 All-Ireland SFC winner Tyrone.[4]

Camogie

Antrim have won the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship six times and been runners-up ten times. Camogie arrived in 1908 with the foundation of Banba club, but the movement joined by clubs such as Crowley's, Mitchel's and Ardoyne was short-lived. A 1927 revival was more successful and in 1934 there were three adult leagues in Belfast, southwest and north Antrim.[5]

Antrim's successes include a three-in-a-row in 1945-7, with the benefit of a dispute that removed their main rivals Dublin and the arrival of a Dublin coach, Charlie MacMahon, and the fact four of their semi-finals and two of the finals were played at

Loughgiel Shamrocks to win all but a handful of the Ulster camogie championships played. They defeated Dublin in a 1956 semi-final that prevented Dublin winning 19 All-Ireland titles in a row. O'Donovan Rossa won the All-Ireland senior club championship in 2008.[7] Antrim are the 2010 All-Ireland junior champions.[8]

Notable players include

team of the century member Mairéad McAtamney, player of the year winners Sue Cashman and Maeve Gilroy, All Star award winner[9] Jane Adams and Gradam Tailte winner Josephine McClements, and All-Ireland final stars Marjorie Griffin, Marian and Theresa Kearns. Marie O'Gorman. Celia Quinn and Madge Rainey
.
Rosina MacManus, Nancy Murray and Lily Spence served as presidents of the Camogie Association
.

Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion",[10] five new camogie clubs were to be established in the county by 2015.[11]

Antrim have the following achievements in camogie.

Ladies' football

Antrim compete in the All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship.

Antrim have the following achievements in ladies' football.

References

  1. ^ "GAA clubs by numbers". Irish Independent. 9 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Flashback: 1989 All-Ireland SHC semi-final - Antrim v Offaly". GAA.ie. 24 May 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Antrim - Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Uladh". gaa.ie.
  4. ^ "Antrim Tyrone". BBC. 19 July 2009.
  5. ^ History of camogie in Antrim in Andersonstown News
  6. ISBN 978-1-903688-83-0
  7. ^ 2008 O'Donovan Rossa 2-15 Drom & Inch 1-10 Report in Irish Independent and on Camogie.ie Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Preview on Camogie.ie
  8. ^ a b 2010 junior final replay Antrim 2-10 Waterford 0-12 report in Irish Independent, RTÉ Online Archived 2010-10-07 at the Wayback Machine and on camogie.ie[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ "All-stars on camogie.ie". camogie.ie. Archived from the original on 3 December 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
  10. ^ "Final goal for camogie". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  11. ^ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie Archived 1 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine, pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site Archived 16 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship: Roll of Honour", RTÉ, 9 May 2008.
  13. ^ 2010 drawn Junior final Antrim 1-9 Waterford 1-9 report in Irish Times Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, RTÉ online Archived 2010-09-14 at the Wayback Machine and RTÉ online match-tracker Archived October 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

External links

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