Ballinhassig GAA is a

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club in

Ballinhassig Ballinhassig () is a village in County Cork, Ireland, situated south of Cork City just off the N71 Bandon road and near the source of the River Owenabue (''Abhainn Bui'', meaning "Yellow River"). Traditionally an agricultural area, Ballinha ...

County Cork County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...

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. The club is affiliated to the Carrigdhoun Board and 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 in the village of

, about 10km from Cork, Ballinhassig GAA Club was founded in 1886. The new club found it difficult to field teams and sometimes joined with nearby Ballygarvan GAA Club as Owenabue Rovers, before eventually disbanding. Ballinhassig was reformed in 1945 and immediately became a dominant force in the South East JHC, winning 11 titles between 1946 and 1965. The last divisional titles was subsequently converted into a Cork JHC title following a 6-05 to 1-02 defeat of Brian Dillons in the final. Ballinhassig claimed a second Cork JHC after a 1-06 to 0-05 defeat of Meelin in 1973. This was followed two years later with a Cork IHC triumph and senior status for the first time ever. Ballinhassig regraded after just one season in the top tier and added a second Cork IHC title to their collection in 1977 but declined promotion. After eventually finding their was back to the junior ranks, Ballinhassig won a third Cork JAHC title when, in 2002, they beat Fr O'Neill's in the final. The first official Munster Club JHC soon followed before Ballinhassig beat Blacks and Whites of Kilkenny by 4–15 to 1–06 in the 2003 All-Ireland Club JHC final. Ballinhassig were one of the original 16 teams that formed the Cork PIHC in 2004, and won the title a year later after beating Aghada. The club subsequently claimed the Munster Club IHC title before being beaten by Dicksboro in the 2006 All-Ireland Club IHC final. Ballinhassig once again became a senior club after claiming their second Cork PIHC title after a 1-19 to 1-12 defeat of Bandon in 2012. The club also made a

breakthrough that year when they won the first of four South East JAFC titles.

Honours

* All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 2003 * All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (0): (Runners-Up 2006) * Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship (1): 2002 * Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2005 * Cork Premier Intermediate Hurling Championship (2):

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* Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship (2): 1975, 1977 (Runners-Up 1983) * Cork Intermediate Football Championship (0): (Runners-Up 1929) (as Owenabue Rovers) * Cork Junior Hurling Championship (3): 1965, 1973, 2002 (Runners-Up 1954, 1971, 1995, 2000, 2014) * Cork Junior Football Championship (0): (Runners-Up 2021) * Cork Under-21 Hurling Championship (0): (Runners-Up 2009) * Cork Minor A Hurling Championship (2): 2002, 1987 (Runners-Up 1998) * Carrigdhoun Junior Hurling Championship (29): 1928, 1946, 1948, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1960, 1971, 1973, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 * Carrigdhoun Junior Football Championship (5): 1928, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021 * Cork Senior Hurling League (2): 2007, 2008 * Cork Intermediate Hurling League (4): 1984, 2005, 2014, 2018 * Cork Junior Football League (1): 2019 * Cork Minor Non Exam Hurling (1): 2010 * South-East Under 21 "A" Hurling Championship (7): 1979, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2015 * South-East Under 21 "B" Football Championship (3): 2011, 2016, 2024 * * Mid Cork Under 19 "A" Hurling Championship (1): 2022

Notable players

* Martin Coleman: All-Ireland SHC-winner (

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 1970 Tonghai earthquake, Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli ...

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

) * Patrick Collins:

National Hurling League The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the l ...

-winner (

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

) * Con Cottrell: All-Ireland SHC-winner (

1941 The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million. However, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program estimates that the subsequent year, 1942, wa ...

1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 � ...

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...

1946 1946 (Roman numerals, MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th centur ...

) * Seán McCarthy: All-Ireland SHC-winner (

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

)

References

External link

Ballinhassig GAA site
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