Limerick GAA
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The Limerick County Board of the
. The county board is also responsible for the Limerick county teams.The county hurling team are the current All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) title holders, and have the fourth highest total of titles, behind Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary. The county football team was the first from the province of Munster both to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), as well as to appear in the final.
As of 2009, there were 108 clubs affiliated to Limerick GAA — the third highest, alongside Antrim.[1]
Hurling
Clubs
Clubs contest the following competitions:
- Limerick Senior Hurling Championship
- Limerick Intermediate Hurling Championship
- Limerick Junior Hurling Championship
- Limerick Minor Hurling Championship
- Limerick Under-21 Hurling Championship
The senior competition's most successful club is Patrickswell, with 20 titles. Ahane has 19 titles.
County team
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Limerick's first outright success in hurling was achieved when the Kilfinane club defeated
Limerick won the 1918 All-Ireland SHC, then repeated the feat in the 1921 All-Ireland SHC when the team won the inaugural Liam MacCarthy Cup. The team that achieved those wins featured many players who contested eight consecutive Munster Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) finals (1917–1924 inclusive), a record that has never been equalled.[citation needed]
The team won five consecutive
Limerick won the 1970–71 NHL title and soon followed this by winning the 1973 All-Ireland SHC, its seventh title. Four further NHL titles followed that century: 1983–84, 1984–85, 1991–92 and, lastly, 1997.
The
.Football
Clubs
Clubs contest the Limerick Senior Football Championship. That competition's most successful club is Claughaun with 14 titles.
County team
Limerick won the very first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1887 and repeated this success in 1896, when it became the first non-Leinster team to beat the then all-conquering Dublin in a championship match.
Limerick currently play in Division 2 of the National Football League.
Between 1953 and 1964, Limerick did not play in the Munster Football Championship.
Camogie
Limerick contested the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final of 1980, losing to Cork in a replay.[3] They first contested Munster championship in 1922-4, but the game struggled and had to undergo further revivals in 1932, 1947 and 1960, when Chris O'Connell, Carrie Gillane and Eithne Neville re-established it. This culminated in the county team's appearance in the All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship of 1977 and Limerick's appearance in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship final of 1980, where they lost to Cork in a replay. Three Limerick clubs have won the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship, Granagh-Ballingarry (3), Ballyagran (1978) and Croagh Kilfinny(1975).
Notable players include All Star award winners[4] Rose Collins, Eileen O'Brien and Vera Sheehan, young player of the year for 2007 Niamh Mulcahy. and Vera Mackey, Agnes Hourigan from Ballingarry and Eithne Neville from Kilfinny who won All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship medals with Dublin in 1938 and 1957 respectively. Chris O'Connell and Agnes Hourigan served as president of the Camogie Association.
Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion",[5] five new camogie clubs were to be established in the county by 2015.[6]
Limerick have the following achievements in camogie.[7]
- All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Runners-Up 1980
- All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championship Winners 1996, 2007, 2014[8] Runners-Up 2000, 2002, 2013[9]
- All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championship Winners 1977, 1995 Runners-Up 1988, 1994, Junior A Winners 2014
- National Camogie League Runners-Up 1978, 1979, 2002
- National Camogie League Div 2/Junior Winners 1991, 1992, 1996, 2007, 2013, Div 4 Winners 2014
- All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championship A Winners 2014, B Winners 2009, 2011
- All Ireland under-16 B Winners 2001, 2002, 2011
Ladies' football
Limerick has a ladies' football team.
References
- ^ "GAA clubs by numbers". Irish Independent. 9 May 2009.
- ^ "New green wave ends 45 years of heartache for Limerick". Irish Examiner. 20 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
- ^ Moran, Mary (2011). A Game of Our Own: The History of Camogie. Dublin, Ireland: Cumann Camógaíochta. p. 460.
- ^ "All-stars on camogie.ie". camogie.ie. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "Final goal for camogie - Independent.ie". independent.ie. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ 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
- ^ "County History - Limerick Camogie". www.limerickcamogie.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- ^ "Mulcahy savours Limerick redemption". Irish Examiner. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^ "McGrath on song as Tribeswomen make amends". Irish Examiner. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
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