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1989–90 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship
The 1989–90 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the 20th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county club hurling tournament. The championship began on 24 September 1989 and ended on 17 March 1990. Buffer's Alley were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify for the championship. On 17 March 1990, Ballyhale Shamrocks won the championship following a 1-16 to 0-16 defeat of Ballybrown in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title overall and their first in six championship seasons. Results Connacht Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-final Final Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship First round Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-final Final All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ger Fennelly
Ger Fennelly (born 22 January 1954) is an Irish people, Irish retired hurling, hurler who played as a centre-forward and as a midfielder for the Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny senior team. Born in Piltown, County Kilkenny, Fennelly first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Kilkenny minor team before later joining the under-21 side. He joined the senior panel during the 1974 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, 1974 championship. Fennelly subsequently became a regular member of the starting fifteen and won three All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, All-Ireland medals, six Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, Leinster medals and three National Hurling League medals. The All-Ireland-winning captain of 1979, he was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions. Fennelly was a member of the Leinster GAA, Leinster inter-provincial team on a number of occasions, however, he never won a Railway Cup medal. At club level he is a three-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athleague
Athleague () is a village and a parish in the Diocese of Elphin on the River Suck in the west of Ireland in County Roscommon, near the town of Roscommon. The village is in a townland and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of the same name. As of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, the village population was 296. Its church was founded sometime around 500 by Manchán of Athleague, Maenucan Atha Liacc ('Maonagán of Athleague'). The name is derived from ''Áth Liag'' ('the ford of the flagstones'), indicating its use as a crossing point between the kingdoms of the Uí Maine and Uí Briúin. The village is 8 km south-west of Roscommon town, at the junction of the N63 road (Ireland), N63 National secondary road, national route and the R362 road (Ireland), R362 Regional road (Ireland), regional road. The R357 road (Ireland), R357 leaves the N63 south of the village. The town has a gristmill, mill and a restored church. The church is the local parish for the surroundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomh Moninne H
In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland. The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent. The exact number of Irish saints is not known but the Martyrology of Donegal lists 1000 saints, male and female. For this reason, Ireland in a 19th-century adage is described as "the land of saints and scholars".''The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church'', Volume 3, John and Charles Mozley (1852)p. 215 Christianity was introduced into Ireland toward the end of the 4th century. The details of the introduction are obscure, though the strict ascetic nature of monasticism in Ireland is said to be derived from the practices of the Desert Fathers. Although there were some Christians in Ireland before Patrick, who was a native of Roman Britain, he playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athy
Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 11,035 (as of the 2022 census) made it the sixth largest town in Kildare and the 45th largest in the Republic of Ireland, a growth of 82% since the 2002 census. Name Athy or is named after a 2nd-century Celtic chieftain, Ae, who is said to have been killed on the river crossing, thus giving the town its name "the town of Ae's ford". The ''Letters of the Ordnance Survey'' (1837) note that "The town is now called by the few old people who speak Irish there and in the Queen's County /nowiki>Laois">Laois.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Laois">/nowiki>Laois/nowiki>, , pronounced Blahéé", where ''éé'' stands for English 'ee' [i:] as clarified by a note written in pencil in Irish as ''Blá thí''. History According to Elizabethan historian William Camden, Ptolemy's map of Ireland circa 150 AD names the Rheban d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Park
Geraldine Park is a GAA stadium in Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. It is the main ground of Athy GAA's Gaelic football and hurling teams and has also hosted inter-county fixtures. History First rented from the Kildare Agricultural Society in 1905, Athy GAA grounds was quickly developed in order to stage the 1906 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, the replay of the 1908 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, the Leinster football finals of 1907, 1908, 1942 and 1944, and the Leinster hurling final of 1907. Geraldine Park was opened in 1930 and developed under the guidance of Fintan Brennan. It was also the venue for the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final. To the seating of the 1940s was added a stand in 1984. The dressing rooms, built in 1964 (now replaced), had a holy water font near the exit for use of teams running on to the pitch. Geraldine Park hosted the first leg of the Shinty/Hurling International Series in 2011, Ireland de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trim GAA
Trim GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Trim, in County Meath, Ireland. The club fields Gaelic football, hurling teams, Camogie teams and Peil na mBan (Ladies' Gaelic football) teams. It competes in Meath GAA competitions. Trim is known as the home of hurling in Meath and the Meath Senior Hurling Championship final was held there each year until the redevelopment of its facilities meant it was moved to Pairc Tailteann. 2011 season Trim finished at the bottom of Group A, with 3 points from 5 games and point difference of -30, the lowest of any team that year. Trim's only win was a 1-15 to 1-10 defeat of Blackhall Gaels on 7 August 2011. Trim's first relegation play-off was against Nobber on 20 August, Trim were beaten 3-8 to 1-16. On 9 September 2011, Trim were beaten 1-11 to 2-9 by Duleek/Bellewstown in Páirc Tailteann in their second relegation play-off and were relegated to the Intermediate Football Championship. Trim were promoted to Senior Level fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castledermot GAA
Castledermot GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Castledermot, County Kildare, Ireland. The club has won three Kildare Senior Hurling Championships and teams representing the club were the first winners of the Intermediate Football Championship and Senior Camogie Championship. The club, which was named "Kildare club of the year" in 2004, is the home club of All-Ireland football finalist of 1935, Pat Byrne, who played for the club 1925–1942. Jimmy Curran was goalkeeper on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. History Castledermot GAA was founded at a meeting, attended by a dozen people, on 17 February 1889. Royal Irish Constabulary records from 1890 show four clubs in the area. Castledermot had 40 members, Ballyhade Pallatine had 70 members, Graney had 50 members, and Kilkea Geraldines had 40 members. The Castledermot club played at Barnhill, moved to Abbeyland and to their current grounds at Woodlands in 1970. Gaelic football Pat Byrne played in two A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longford
Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It had a population of 10,952 at the 2022 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meeting of Ireland's N4 and N5 roads, which means that traffic travelling between Dublin and County Mayo, or north County Roscommon passes around the town. Longford railway station, on the Dublin-Sligo line, is used heavily by commuters. History The town is built at a fording point on the banks of the River Camlin (), which is a tributary of the River Shannon. According to several sources, the name Longford is an Anglicization of the Irish , referring to a fortress or fortified house. The area came under the sway of the local clan which controlled the south and middle of the County of Longford (historically called or ) and hence, the town was known as (fort/stronghold of O'Farrell). A Dominican priory was founded there in 1400. St. John's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuala CLG
Cuala GAA club (or ''Cuala GAC'', ) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Dalkey in the south of County Dublin, Ireland. It fields teams in Dublin GAA competitions. Cuala is primarily based in a sports and social centre in Dalkey, and also has playing facilities in Glenageary, Meadow Vale/Clonkeen Park, Shankill, Dublin, Shankill and Sallynoggin. The club name derives from Cualu or Cuala, an ancient kingdom of Ireland that stretched roughly from the River Liffey, Liffey to Arklow. History The club was founded as a result of a merger between Dalkey Mitchels and Cuala Casements in 1974. The club won consecutive All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championships in 2017 and 2018. The club won their first Dublin Senior Football Championship title in 2024 after defeating reigning champions Kilmacud Crokes 0-14 to 1-10 in the final and then went on to win the Leinster SFC and All Ireland SFC becoming only the second club ever to win All Irelands in both codes The club repla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longford Slashers
Longford Slashers is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Longford, County Longford, Ireland. The club is based at Michael Fay Park in Longford Town. The club has won the Longford Senior Football Championship 16 times, and during the 2010s was the only club in the county to field teams at football, hurling, ladies football and Camogie. History The Longford Slashers club was formed in 1954 when Longford Wanderers and Whiterock Slashers clubs merged to form a new club.They decided to take Longford from Wanderers and Slashers from Whiterock hence Longford Slashers came into existence. The club has won the Longford Senior Football Championship 16 times, with victories in 1954, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1971, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2010, 2011, and 2013. The club has won the Longford Senior Hurling Championship 12 times, with victories in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2001, and 2021. The hurling club was called the Slashers Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aughrim, County Wicklow
Aughrim (; ) is a small town in County Wicklow, Ireland. It lies in a scenic valley in the Wicklow Mountains in the east of Ireland where the Ow and Derry rivers meet to form the Aughrim River. Aughrim is on the R747 road between Arklow and Baltinglass, and the R753 regional road. Architecture The Rednagh Bridge south of the village was the site of an engagement during the 1798 rebellion between Crown forces and the rebels. A plaque on the bridge commemorates Anne Devlin, who was employed by and supported Robert Emmet, a revolutionary who was hanged in 1803 for his leadership of an aborted uprising. There are a number of unusual granite terraced houses throughout the village, constructed - along with a forge, and town hall - at the behest of the Earl of Meath. Aughrim was a granite mining village, and this material is widely used, giving the village a distinctive and coherent architecture. Aughrim has won the Irish Tidy Towns Award for the tidiest village in County Wick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aughrim County Ground
Aughrim County Ground, known for sponsorship reasons as Echelon Park Aughrim, is a GAA stadium in Aughrim, County Wicklow, Ireland. Aughrim County Ground is the name of the home of Gaelic Games for County Wicklow (Gaelic football, Hurling, Camogie, Ladies Football) team. The ground has a capacity of about 7,000. The name "O'Byrne Park" was occasionally used in the past, but this has never been the official name: this mistake that came about because of the Irish name for the local village of Aughrim, "Aughrim of the O'Byrnes" (''Eachdhruim Uí Bhroin''). Also known locally as "The Pitch", or just "The Field". See also * List of Gaelic Athletic Association stadiums * List of stadiums in Ireland by capacity The following is a list of sports stadiums on Ireland. This includes stadiums in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. They are ordered by their Seating capacity, capacity. The capacity figures are permanent total capacity as author ... References Gael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
