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Clane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in
Clane Clane (; ) is a town in County Kildare, Ireland, from Dublin. With a population of 8,152 in 2022, it is the ninth largest town in Kildare and the 66th largest in Ireland. The town is on the River Liffey. Clane gives its name to the associate ...
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, winner of 17 Kildare county senior football championships, 16 county senior hurling championships and Kildare club of the year in 1975. Clane players are credited with bringing the handpass into Gaelic football.


History

Clane town sports pre-date the GAA, those of 12 June 1884 on a field opposite the Dispensary House being reported as "ayquel to Punchestown" by the Leinster Leader. A Leinster Leader report in April 1887 stated that Clane had "the honour of being the first club to be established in County Kildare". Clane were the first Kildare football champions. A Clongowes teacher member of the team, Professor Crowley, was later accredited with having invented the handpass. RIC records from 1890 show that Clane's William O'Briens had 50 members with officers listed as CJ O'Connor (who was also first chairman of Kildare county board) John Geoghegan, Maurice Sammon and James Archer. A set of white jerseys from a house rugby team at Clongowes, used by the club after 1901, were used for the 1903 All Ireland final leading to the tradition of Kildare wearing all white as their county colours: the Lily Whites.


Gaelic Football

The Clane-Roseberry duopoly between 1901 and 1910 was responsible for raising standards in Kildare. A number of Clane players participated in Kildare's twice-replayed home final appearance against Kerry in 1903 and first All Ireland success in 1905. By the time the club was affected by the
Irish Civil War The Irish Civil War (; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Emp ...
, it had won eight county titles. The club experienced a "revival" in the 1960s and won three more titles. These included a dramatic comeback of 1967 which turned a four-point deficit into a six-point win in the final ten minutes. In the 1990s, Clane won four more titles in a six-year period. After Clane won the 1997
Kildare Senior Football Championship The Kildare Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by Kildare GAA between the top clubs in County Kildare, Ireland. The winners of the Championship qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Senior ...
with nine
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players in the line-up, they went to the
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final, eventually losing to Erin's Isle, and provided six players for the
Kildare Kildare () is a town in County Kildare, Ireland. , its population was 10,302, making it the 7th largest town in County Kildare. It is home to Kildare Cathedral, historically the site of an important abbey said to have been founded by Saint ...
team that reached the 1998
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final.


Hurling

The club established a hurling section in 1903. Clane went on to win 16 hurling titles before 1922, including a significant comeback against Landenstown from seven points down in 1920. A split in 1922, possibly related to the civil war, led to the establishment of Mainham hurling club. In their most successful period, Clane had lost just two finals, to
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on objection in 1913 and to
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when some of their players were missing in 1921. They returned to senior ranks in the 1990s. The club were league champions in 2009. Clane's minor hurling team won the Minor B league on 4 May 2012 after defeating Eire Og Choirracoill on a score of 2-15 to 2-05. Clane also won the Kildare Junior Hurling Championship in 2013, beating Naas in the final.


Camogie

The camogie club was founded in 1931 when Bridie Ennis was listed as "one of the best players in the county". Clane won the county championship in 1939 shortly before the club lapsed and the best players joined Sallins. A Clane team won the 1953 league and championship, the 1962 senior league, but the club lapsed again 1966-1976. A team was revived in 1976 and won league and championship in 1977 wearing the green gym-slips of the local Scoil Mhuire. They won junior league and championship in 1980 but lapsed in 1983 when the best players joined Prosperous. Geraldine Dwyer and Marianne Johnson were selected on the Kildare
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team of the century. Clane hosted the final of the 1993 Gael Linn Cup inter-provincial series. Clane camogie won the Kildare Intermediate final on Sunday 30 September defeating Leixlip on a scoreline of 2-06 to 1-05. The club's camogie section retained the Intermediate Championship in 2013 with a victory over Leixlip on a scoreline of 4-11 to 3-09. In 2016, the minor camogie team won the Division 1 Minor Cup final with a score of 1-7 to 0-6 against Naas.


Honours

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Leinster Senior Club Football Championship The Leinster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played on a knockout basis between the senior club championship winners of the competing counties in Leinster. The current holders of the Leinster title are K ...
Finalists 1997 *
Kildare Senior Football Championship The Kildare Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by Kildare GAA between the top clubs in County Kildare, Ireland. The winners of the Championship qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Senior ...
: (17) 1888, 1892, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1916, 1963, 1967, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997 * Kildare Under-21 'A' Football Championship: (1) 2018 *Kildare Minor A Football Championship(1) 2017 * Kildare Under-21 'A' Football Shield (1) 2013 * Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (2) 1940, 1949 * Kildare Junior Football Championship: (1) 1929 * Kildare Junior B Football Championship: (1) 1977 * Kildare Minor A Football League Winners (3) 2015, 2017, 2024 *
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship The Kildare Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the UPMC Kildare Senior Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Kildare SHC) is an annual club hurling competition organised by the Kildare GAA, Kildare County Board o ...
: (16) 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922 * Kildare Senior Hurling League Winners (1) 2009 * Kildare Junior Hurling League Winners (1) 2008 * Kildare Junior Hurling Championship: (4) 1915, 1945, 1994, 2013 *Kildare Under-21 'B' Hurling Championship: (2) 2018, 2019 * Kildare Senior Camogie Championship: (1) 1953 * Kildare Intermediate Camogie Championship (3) 2008, 2012, 2013 * Kildare Junior Camogie Championship (2) 1977, 1980 * Kildare Senior Camogie League: (2) 1953, 1962 * Kildare Junior Camogie league: (2) 1976, 1980 * Kildare Minor Camogie Division 1 Winners 2016 *Kildare Junior C Ladies Football Championship: (1) 2008 *Leinster Junior A Ladies Football Championship Finalists: 2014


Bibliography

* Clane GAA A Century - A History Of The Club And The People (Clane GAA Club) 1985, 528pp. * Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara,
1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...
, hb pb * Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000 * Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.


External links

* {{Kildare GAA clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare Hurling clubs in County Kildare Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare Clane