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Damien Fitzhenry
Damien Fitzhenry (born 5 July 1974) is an Irish retired hurler. His league and championship career with the Wexford senior team spanned eighteen seasons from 1993 until 2010.Fitzhenry is widely regarded as Wexford's greatest ever goalkeeper. Playing career Club The Fitzhenry name has been associated with the Duffry Rovers club since the 1970s. Damien, the youngest of fifteen children, currently plays his club hurling and football with 'the Rovers' and is following in the footsteps of his brothers Mark, Tom, Séamus, John, Martin, Gerard, Noel, Paddy and Fran. As well as that three of Fitzhenry's sisters, Tina, Mary and Ann, have also played camogie with Duffry Rovers. Fitzhenry joined the senior ranks of the club in late 1991 and shared in the club's famous run of seven county football titles in-a-row between 1986 and 1992. Inter-county Fitzhenry first came to prominence in the early 1992 when he joined the Wexford minor hurling panel. He quickly moved onto the under-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duffry Rovers GAA
Duffry Rovers GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the centre of Ballindaggin, Caim and Kiltealy villages in County Wexford, Ireland. The club fields teams in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. Honours * Wexford Senior Football Championship (8): ** 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994 * Wexford Intermediate Football Championship (1) ** 1980 * Wexford Intermediate A Football Championships: (1) ** 2016 * Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championships: (2) ** 1969, 1978 * Wexford Junior Football Championships: (1) ** 1977 * Wexford Under-21 Football Championships: (5) ** 1979 (with Marshalstown), 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 * Wexford Under-21 Hurling Championships: (6) ** 1970 (with Rathnure), 1971 (with Rathnure), 1976 (with Marshalstown), 1978 (with Marshalstown), 1979 (with Marshalstown), 1980 (with Marshalstown), 1981 (with Marshalstown) * Wexford Minor Football Championships: (1) ** 1978 (with Marshalstown) * Wexford Minor Hurling Championships: (3) ** 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare GAA
The Clare County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Clare GAA is one of the 32 County board (Gaelic games), county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Clare. Clare plays its home games at Cusack Park (Ennis), Cusack Park in Ennis. The Clare county hurling team, county hurling team competes in Division 1 of the National Hurling League and in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship (SHC), the former of which it has won five times, most recently in 2024. Clare has won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) five times in its history. The county won its first title in 1914 and took another 81 years to win a second title in 1995, which remains the record wait for a successive title in Senior Championship history. Clare won All-Ireland SHC titles in 1914, 1995, 1997, 2013 and 2024. The Clare county football team, county football team contested the 1917 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. Governance Pat Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
The 1996 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 110th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The draw for the various provincial championships took place on 22 October 1995. The championship ran from 5 May to 1 September 1996. Clare GAA, Clare were the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, defending champions, however, they were beaten by Limerick GAA, Limerick in the #Munster semi-finals, Munster semi-finals. The 1996 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, All-Ireland final was played on 1 September 1996 at Croke Park in Dublin, between Wexford GAA, Wexford and Limerick, in what was their third meeting in the final overall, a first meeting in the final in 1918 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, 78 years and a first championship meeting in 1955 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship#All-Ireland semi-finals, 41 years. Wexford won the match by 1–13 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Carton
Noel Carton (born 15 April 1981 in Clonroche, County Wexford) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Cloughbawn and succeeded Damien Fitzhenry as goalkeeper on the Wexford Wexford ( ; archaic Yola dialect, Yola: ''Weiseforthe'') is the county town of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the ... senior inter-county team in 2010. But left the panel in 2011. References 1981 births Living people Hurling goalkeepers Cloughbawn hurlers Wexford inter-county hurlers 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Wexford-hurling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nowlan Park
Nowlan Park (; ), known for sponsorship reasons as UPMC Nowlan Park, is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Kilkenny, Ireland. Named after James Nowlan, the longest serving President of the GAA, the stadium hosts major hurling matches and is home to the Kilkenny hurling team. It opened in 1927, replacing St. James Park. Facilities The stadium consists of the following stands: *Old Stand (O'Loughlin Road) mainly bench-seats (uncovered, planning for a new roof submitted after storm damaged the old roof in 2014) (The new roof completed in late 2014 and opened in early 2015) *Paddy Grace Stand (New Stand, Hebron Road) mainly bench-seats (covered) *Ted Carrol Stand (country end) 4,000 plastic seats (covered) *City Terrace (covered) The target capacity under the Kilkenny GAA 2010-15 plan was 30,000. A large portion of the Old Stand's roof was blown off during a violent storm on 12 February 2014. The rest was removed for health and safety reasons. Hurling History was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin GAA
The Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Dublin GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin and the Dublin county teams. The teams and their fans are known as "The Dubs" or "Boys in Blue". The fans have a special affiliation with the Hill 16 end of Croke Park. The county football team is second to Kerry in its total number of wins of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. As of 2009, there were 215 clubs affiliated to Dublin GAA — the second highest, ahead of Antrim and Limerick, which each had 108. Governance Dublin GAA has jurisdiction over the area of County Dublin. There are 9 officers on the Board, including the Cathaoirleach (Chairperson), Mick Seavers, Vice-Chairman, Ken O'Sullivan and Treasurer, Finbarr O'Mahony. The Board is subject to the Leinster GAA Provincial Council. Notable officers The following members have also held notable positions in the GAA: * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Dooley
Shane Dooley (born 26 September 1986) is an Irish hurler who previously played as a right corner-forward for the Offaly senior team. Born in Tullamore, County Offaly, Dooley came from a strong hurling family. His paternal and maternal granduncles as well as his grandfather experienced All-Ireland JHC success with the Offaly junior team in 1923 and 1929. His father, Joe Dooley, and his uncles, Johnny and Billy Dooley, won seven All-Ireland SHC medals between them between 1985 and 1998. Dooley first played competitive inter-county hurling and Gaelic football with Tullamore College. Here he won a Leinster Vocational Schools Junior B Championship medal and an All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship medal. Dooley simultaneously came to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Tullamore club. As a dual player at senior level he won a county hurling championship medal and three senior football championship medals. While studying at the University of Limerick, Dool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colm Bonnar
Colm Bonnar (born 12 June 1964) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. He is the former manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team having served as manager from September 2021 to July 2022. He is also the former manager of the Carlow senior hurling team. Bonnar played for club sides Cashel King Cormacs and Dunhill and was a member of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 13 seasons, during which time he usually lined out at midfield. Bonnar began his hurling career at club level with Cashel King Cormacs. He broke onto the club's top adult team after championship success in the minor and under-21 grades. Bonnar enjoyed his greatest success when he captained the club to the 1991 Munster Club Championship. He later transferred to the Dunhill club in Waterford. At the inter-county level, Bonnar was part of the successful Tipperary minor team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1982. He then won back-to-back Munster Championships with the under-21 team in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterford GAA
The Waterford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Waterford GAA is one of the 32 County board (Gaelic games), county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for all levels of Gaelic games in County Waterford. The County Board is also responsible for the Waterford county teams. The county board's offices are based at Walsh Park in the city of Waterford. The Waterford County Board was founded in 1886. Hurling is the dominant sport, with the county having won the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) on two occasions: in 1948 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, 1948 and 1959 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, 1959. While Gaelic football, football is the secondary sport in the county, it is widely played nonetheless. Waterford's greatest footballing achievement was reaching the 1898 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, which the team lost to Dublin county football team, Dublin. Governance Founded in 1886, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GPA Gaelic Team Of The Year
The GPA Gaelic Team of the Year known for sponsorship reason as The Opel Gaelic Team of the Year awards were an awards ceremony to honour the performances of Gaelic Athletic Association players. The awards were judged and awarded by the Gaelic Players Association. In 2011 the GAA and Gaelic Players Association, GPA announced that their respective annual player awards schemes were to merge under the sponsorship of Opel. The first merged awards were given out in 2011. Hurling awards 2010 winners Brian Codd (Wexford), Paul Curran (hurler), Paul Curran Evan Costello (Laois), Tommy Walsh (hurler, born 1983), Tommy Walsh (Kilkenny), Michael Walsh (Waterford hurler), Michael Walsh (Waterford), Mike Whyte (Offaly), Michael Fennelly (hurler), Michael Fennelly (Kilkenny), Brendan Maher (Tipperary), Andy Kennedy (Limerick), Sean Cleary (Offaly), Lar Corbett (Tipperary), Eoin Kelly (Tipperary hurler), Eoin Kelly (Tipperary), Gearoid Burke (Laois), Aodan Keally (Offaly), Barry O'Dowd(Roscom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GAA All Stars Awards
The Gaelic Athletic Association-Gaelic Players' Association All Stars Awards (often known simply as the All Stars) are awarded annually to the best player in each of the 15 playing positions in Gaelic football and hurling. Additionally, one player in each code is selected as Player of the Year. The awards were instituted in 1971. Since 2011 they have been presented jointly by the Gaelic Athletic Association and the representative body for inter-county players, the Gaelic Players Association. Each player who receives a nomination is given a medallion marking the milestone. It is considered "the most coveted sporting award scheme in the country". Equivalent awards exist for ladies' football, rounders and camogie. History and procedure Since the 1960s there had been a tradition of annually selecting the best player in each position, in football and hurling, to create a special team of the year. Between 1963 and 1967 these players received what was known as the Cú Chulainn award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tipperary GAA
The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary and the Tipperary county teams. County Tipperary holds an honoured place in the history of the GAA as the organisation was founded in Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, on 1 November 1884. The county football team was the second from the province of Munster both to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) title, as well as to appear in a final, following Limerick. The county hurling team is third in the all-time rankings for All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (SHC) titles, behind only Cork and Kilkenny. History Governance Tipperary GAA has jurisdiction over the area that is associated with the traditional county of County Tipperary. There are 9 officers on the Board including the Cathaoirleach (Chairperson), Sean Nugent. Past presidents Four Tipperary men have s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
