Bantry Blues is a

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 ...

club based in

Bantry Bantry () is a town in the civil parish of Kilmocomoge in the barony of Bantry on the southwest coast of County Cork, Ireland. It lies in West Cork at the head of Bantry Bay, a deep-water gulf extending for to the west. The Beara Peninsula i ...

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 ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. The club is affiliated with

Cork GAA The Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Cork 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 Cork and the Cork county teams. It ...

and to the Carbery division. The club has always been primarily a

club, but has fielded

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 ...

teams also. In 2010, the hurling section was reformed.

History

The club was founded in 1887.

Honours

Cork Senior Football Championship The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by t ...

Winners (2) 1995, 1998 Runners Up: 1909,1981, 2001 *

Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as McCarthy Insurance Group Cork County Premier Intermediate Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PIFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition orga ...

Runners-Up (2) 2022, 2023 *

Cork Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Intermediate A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as McCarthy Insurance Group Cork County Intermediate A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the ...

Winners (6) 1912, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1975, 1993, Runners Up: 1933, 1937 *

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork County Board ...

Winners: (2) 1928, 1972, *

Cork Under-21 Football Championship The Cork Under-21 Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition in County Cork, Ireland for players under the age of 21. Clubs affiliated to Cork board compete to win this championship. All eight of the divisions in Cork organize the ...

Winners (2) 1993, 1994 * Cork Minor Football Championship Runners-Up: 1941, 1979, 2009 *

Cork Junior B Hurling Championship The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Junior B Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JBHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board of the Gaeli ...

Runners-Up 2015 *

West Cork Junior A Football Championship The Carbery Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bandon Co-op Carbery Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Carbery JAFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by the Carbery GAA, ...

Winners: (9) 1928, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1985 Runners-Up 1931, 1937, 1947, 1961, 1967, 1971 * West Cork Junior B Football Championship: Winners (1) 1974, Runners-Up: 1972, 1973 * Carbery Junior A Hurling Championship Runners Up (1) 1952 * West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship: Winners (5) 1972, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2023 Runners Up: 1961, 2011, 2021 * West Cork Junior C Football Championship: Winners (2) 1988, 2010 Runners-Up: 1980 * West Cork Junior D Football Championship: Winners (2) 2008, 2013 * West Cork Minor A Football Championship: Winners (16): 1941, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007 Runners-Up 2008,2017 * West Cork Under-21 Football Championship: Winners (10) 1972, 1978, 1979, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2012, 2024 Runners-Up: 1969, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1990

Notable players

* Declan Barron

1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The 1973 All-Ireland Football Championship was the 87th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 13 May 1973 and ended on ...

winner. Two time All-Star winner. Cork – Football Team of the Century and Millennium member. * Donal Hunt

winner. 1972

Railway Cup The GAA Interprovincial Championship () or Railway Cup (''Corn an Iarnróid'') is the name of two annual Gaelic football and hurling competitions held between the provinces of Ireland. The Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster GAA teams are co ...

winning captain. *

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All-Star winner * Philip Clifford 1999 Young Footballer of the Year and All-Star winner. *

Graham Canty Graham Canty (born 23 July 1980) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-back for the Cork senior team. Canty went on to play a key role in defence for over a decade, and won one All-Ireland medal, four Munster medals and one Nati ...

2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 124th edition of the GAA's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament, played between 31 of the 32 counties of Ireland plus London and New York. The draw for the championship took p ...

winning captain. Three time All-Star winner. * Ruairi Deane 2013

All-Ireland Junior Football Championship The All-Ireland Junior Football Championship is a Gaelic Athletic Association, GAA competition It has historically consisted of two entirely different formats before and after 2021, but has retained the same name. Since 2022, the competition ...

winning captain.

References

External links

Official Bantry Blues websiteArchived Bantry Blues website
Bantry Gaelic football clubs in County Cork Gaelic games clubs in County Cork Hurling clubs in County Cork {{Cork-GAA-club-stub