Clara GAA is a GAA club based in Clara,

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. It participates in competitions organized by the

Offaly GAA The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Offaly 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 Offaly. Separate county boards are ...

county board. The club fields both

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 ...

and

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.

History

The club was founded in 1884 and is the oldest GAA club in Offaly. Clara was the first club outside of

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to affiliate to the newly-formed GAA, joining with eighty members.

Achievements

* Offaly Senior Football Championship Winners (6) 1960, 1964, 1991, 1993, 2003, 2009 ** Runners-Up 1923, 1957, 1958, 1966, 1981, 1987, 1995, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017 * Offaly Intermediate Football Championship Winners (1) 1956 * Offaly Intermediate Hurling Championship Winners (3) 1934, 2003, 2019 * Offaly Junior Football Championship Winners (6) 1911, 1919, 1928, 1954, 1999, 2007 * Offaly Junior A Hurling Championship Winners (6) 1920, 1926, 1941, 1983, 1996, 2015 * Leinster Special Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 2014

Notable players

Brian Cowen Brian Bernard Cowen (born 10 January 1960) is an Irish former politician who served as Taoiseach and Leader of Fianna Fáil from 2008 to 2011. Cowen served as a TD for the constituency of Laois–Offaly from 1984 to 2011 and served in several ...

References

External links

Offaly GAA Roll of Honour

Clara GAA website
Gaelic games clubs in County Offaly Gaelic football clubs in County Offaly Hurling clubs in County Offaly {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub