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Sligo County Football Team
The Sligo county football team ( ) represents Sligo in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Sligo GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Connacht Senior Football Championship and the National Football League. Sligo's home ground is Markievicz Park, Sligo. The team's manager is vacant. The team last won the Connacht Senior Championship in 2007, but has never won the All-Ireland Senior Championship or the National League. According to Martin Breheny, Sligo routinely has a ranking within the bottom sixteen of county football teams. 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 WD Player has since withdrawn from the county team due to a non-injury issue.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 * Manager: Vacant Crest and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 by kicking or palming the ball into the other team's Goal (sport), goal (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goal and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. Two points are awarded if the ball is kicked over the crossbar from a 40 metre range marked by a D-shaped arc, signalled by the umpire raising an orange flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calry–St Joseph's GAA
Calry–St Joseph's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Calry and the northern ward of Sligo, Éire. The club was formerly known as Calry Gaels until it became Calry-St Joseph's in 1987 after a re-organisation of the GAA structures in the Sligo urban area. They have won the last 7 Sligo Senior Hurling Championships and played in 12 of the last 13 finals, winning in 2005 until 2009 and again from 2011 to 2017 (minus 2010). In 2009 they won the Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship beating Galway side Skehana 1-09 to 0-10 in the final having lost to them the year before and they repeated that feat again in 2012 by beating the same opposition from before, Skehana. They followed up that victory with a double double by winning both Provincial and County Championships in 2013. The club's most recent victory in the Connacht Junior Hurling Championship came in 2016. Reduced to 13 men, with two players sent off, they clawed back a deficit of 5 points to tie the match and go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Farnan's GAA
St Farnan's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in west County Sligo, Ireland. It was formed from the amalgamation of two local clubs, Dromore West and Templeboy in 1964. As of 2022, it was competing as a Sligo Senior Football Championship club, for the first time since the 2012 season. Honours * Sligo Intermediate Football Championship Sligo Intermediate Football Championship is an annual second tier Gaelic Athletic Association competition between Gaelic football clubs organised by Sligo GAA. The winning club qualifies to represent its GAA county in the Connacht Intermediate ...: (2) ** 2007, 2021 * Sligo Junior Football Championship: (4) ** 1972, 1983, 1997, 2005 * Sligo Under 20 Football Championship: (2) ** 1995, 1997 (amalgamated with Easkey) * Sligo Intermediate Football League Division 3 (ex Div. 2): (1) ** 2011 * Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5): (3) ** 1982, 1986, 1997 * Benson Cup: (5) ** 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2016, 2019 References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easkey GAA
Easkey is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in west County Sligo, including the principal village of Easkey and hinterlands of Rathlee, Killeenduff and Owenbeg. The club was founded in 1888. Honours Football *Sligo Senior Football Championship (5): 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1966 *Sligo Intermediate Football Championship (6): 1982, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2015, 2023 * Connacht Junior Club Football Championship (1): 2018 * Sligo Junior Football Championship (5): 1907, 1960, 1965, 1977, 2018 * Sligo Junior B Football Championship (1): 2000 * Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1) (7): 1947, 1951, 1952, 1967, 1969, 1994, 1998 * Sligo Intermediate Football League Division 3 (ex Div. 2) (1): 1981 * Sligo Junior Football League (Division 4) (1): 2015 *Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5) (1): 1977 *Kiernan Cup (1): 2007 *Benson Cup (1): 2011 * Sligo Under 20 Football Championship (3): 1995, 1997 (amalgamated with St. Farnan's), 2019 (amalgamated with Enniscrone) *Sligo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomh Molaise Gaels GAA
Naomh Molaise Gaels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club covering much of the northern area of County Sligo, comprising Cliffoney (Ahamlish) and part of the Drumcliffe/ Maugherow parishes. The club is a combination of a number of older clubs, including Grange, Cliffoney and Maugherow, and had fielded as Grange–Cliffoney before adopting the present name in 2003. Currently the champions of the Dr Taheny Cup for the minor A championship, a first-time achievement for the club. Cyril Haran played for the club when it was known as Grange and was later a coach and club president. Notable players * Cyril Haran (as Grange) *Mattie Hoey, former Sligo captain who won a Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1975, played for Connacht in the Railway Cup and listed as number 12 in a 2020 ''Irish Independent'' list of top players over the previous 50 years (ahead of Dessie Sloyan) Haran (president) and Hoey (chairman) were both still involved with the club, as of 2011. Honours N.B. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain (Gaelic Games)
A captain of a Gaelic games team, sometimes known as a ''skipper'', is a player who, during the course of a match as well as before and after it, has several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of his teammates. Tradition means that some teams rotate the captaincy annually, though others may adopt a permanent captain. As well as being an onfield leader, a captain takes the coin toss and raises the trophy when this is the game's prize. Responsibilities The captain leads the team out onto the pitch. Before the start of a match, a coin toss between captains of the opposing teams is used to determine which end of the ground each team will kick to. Ahead of the All-Ireland final, the captain is the first member of the team to shake the hand of dignitaries who may be attending the game, for example the President of the Gaelic Athletic Association, president of the GAA or the president of Ireland. He then proceeds along the red carpet and introduces the oth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolera–Strandhill GAA
Coolera–Strandhill is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Coolera Peninsula, comprising the parish of Strandhill and Ransboro in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club often contests Sligo Senior Football Championship finals. Coolera Strandhill are Connacht Senior Football Champions 2024. Honours * Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, Connacht Senior Football Championship (1): 2024 * Sligo Senior Football Championship (4): 1907, 2005, 2023, 2024 * Sligo Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2018 * Sligo Intermediate Football Championship (2): 1989, 1995 * Sligo Junior Football Championship (4): 1916, 1949, 1971, 2007 * Sligo Under 20 Football Championship (2): 2002, 2009 * Sligo Minor Football Championship (3): 1932, 1939, 1964 * Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1) (5): 1939, 1942, 1946, 1953, 2022 * Sligo Senior Football League (Division 2) (3): 2005, 2007, 2012 * Sligo Intermediate Football League Division 3 (ex Div. 2) (2): 1989, 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castleconnor GAA
Castleconnor GAA are a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in rural western County Sligo along the Sligo-Mayo border in Ireland. Castleconnor play in the Sligo Intermediate Championship and in Sligo League Division 2 and field underage football teams. Notable players * Seán Carrabine *Kevin McDonnell, Sligo senior captain at the age of 23 Honours * Sligo Intermediate Football Championship Sligo Intermediate Football Championship is an annual second tier Gaelic Athletic Association competition between Gaelic football clubs organised by Sligo GAA. The winning club qualifies to represent its GAA county in the Connacht Intermediate ...: ** 1998 * Sligo Junior Football Championship: ** 1980, 1985, 2002 * Sligo Superleague Championship: ** 2004 (First Sligo county final under floodlights v Bunninadden) * Sligo Senior Football League (Division 2): ** 1990, 1992, 1998, 2004, 2018 * Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5): **1985 *Sligo U21 B Championship: **2016, 2014 R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seán Carrabine
Seán Carrabine is a Gaelic footballer who plays for Castleconnor and at senior level for the Sligo county team. A midfielder, he scored a goal away to New York in the 2022 Connacht Senior Football Championship; Sligo won the game by four points, with Carrabine's goal worth three. He helped Sligo past Leitrim and into Croke Park in the 2022 Tailteann Cup and was named on the Team of the Week afterwards. In October, he was named on the Tailteann Cup The Tailteann Cup is a Gaelic football competition held annually since 2022 and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is contested by those county teams, which, in the given year, have not otherwise qualified for the All-Ireland ... Team of the Year; teammates Evan Lyons and Aidan Devaney were also included, giving Sligo three out of the total of fifteen positions. Honours ;Individual * Tailteann Cup Team of the Year (1): 2022 References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Castleconno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Mary's GAA (Sligo)
St Mary's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the western ward of Sligo, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. History The club was formed in 1976 from the amalgamation of the Craobh Rua and Muire Naofa clubs. It was the first Sligo club to win the Connacht Senior Club Football Championship, winning three titles. As well as that, they are the only team to have won the county minor, U-21 and senior championship in Sligo in the same season, having done so in 1985 and 2015. They have also won eleven senior county titles. Notable players *Tommy Breheny – led Sligo as manager to a rare Connacht Senior Football Championship in 2007 *Mark Breheny – younger brother of Tommy Breheny, Tommy, was one of Sligo's main players at that time *Peter Ford (Gaelic footballer), Peter Ford *Emlyn Mulligan *Barnes Murphy – All Star: 1974 Notable managers * Cyril Haran Honours * Connacht Senior Club Football Championship: (3) ** 1977, 1980, 1983 * All-Ireland Footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coolaney/Mullinabreena GAA
Coolaney/Mullinabreena is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parishes of Killoran/Coolaney and Achonry/Mullinabreena in County Sligo, Ireland. The club has links to Nace O'Dowd and its home ground, which opened in 1994, is named after him. Honours * Sligo Senior Football Championship: (1) ** 1958 * Sligo Intermediate Football Championship: (2) ** 2005, 2011 * Sligo Junior Football Championship: (5) ** 1910, 1957, 1968, 1984, 1988 * Sligo Under 20 Football Championship: (2) ** 1992, 1993 (as St Nathy's, amalgamated with Bunninadden Bunnanadden, Bunnanaddan or Bunninadden () is a small village in south County Sligo, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is on the R296_road_(Ireland), R296 road, 9 km from Tubbercurry and 8 km from Ballymote. The village contains the p ...) * Sligo Minor Football Championship: (2) ** 1957, 2010 * Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5): (1) ** 1984 * Benson Cup: (1) ** 1991 References Gaelic games clubs in County S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's GAA (Sligo)
St John's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Carraroe and the eastern ward of Sligo, Ireland. It is one of the newer clubs in the county, having been formed in 1987 after a re-organisation of the GAA structures in the Sligo urban area. The club's grounds, formerly known as Cuilbeg, have been renamed Stenson Park in memory of former Sligo player and Curry/St John's club man Johnny Stenson, and were formally opened in October 2012 by GAA President Liam O'Neill. In 2013, St John's seniors won ten games out of a possible eleven and contested the Division One League final for the very first time in their short history against Tourlestrane but lost. Currently the club fields Senior, Intermediate and Junior A teams and traditionally draws its players from Carraroe, Cairns Hill, Cranmore, Garavogue and Mail Coach Road which are predominantly areas from Sligo town. St John's are yet to make an appearance in the Sligo Senior Football Championship final, but have made four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
