Banner GAA 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

Ennis Ennis ( , meaning 'island' or 'river meadow') is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland. The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary. Ennis is the largest town in Cou ...

County Clare County Clare () is a Counties of Ireland, county in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster in the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern part of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council ...

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. The club 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 ...

History

Located on the Shanaway Road on the outskirts of

, Banner GAA Club was founded in 1977. The club has spent most of its existence operating in the junior grade. Banner GAA Club celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2017 by claiming a

double Double, The Double or Dubble may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Multiplication by 2 * Double precision, a floating-point representation of numbers that is typically 64 bits in length * A double number of the form x+yj, where j^2=+1 * A ...

of junior titles. Further success was claimed in 2020 when the club claimed another double. The winning of the Clare JAFC title that year secured intermediate status for the club for the first time in their history. Banner also represented

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in the 2022 Munster Club JHC.

Honours

* Clare Junior A Football Championship (1): 2020 *Clare Junior B Hurling Championship (1): 2020 *Clare Junior B Football Championship (1): 2017 *Clare Junior C Hurling Championship (1): 2017

Notable player

Shane Meehan Shane Meehan (born 2002) is an Irish hurler who plays for Clare Senior Championship club Banner GAA and at inter-county level with the Clare senior hurling team. Career A member of the Banner club in Ennis, Meehan first came to prominence ...

References

External link

Banner GAA website
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