Enniskillen Gaels is a

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club in based in

Enniskillen Enniskillen ( , from , ' Ceithlenn's island') is the largest town in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the middle of the county, between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne. It had a population of 14,086 at the 2011 censu ...

County Fermanagh County Fermanagh ( ; ) is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of six counties of Northern Ireland. The county covers an area of and had a population of 63,585 as of 2021. Enniskillen is the ...

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History

The club completed a six-in-a-row of Fermanagh titles between 1998 and 2003. Gaels reached the final of the

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament organised by Ulster GAA. It is played between the Senior championship winners from each of the nine counties of Ulster. The competition was first held in 1968 an ...

twice during this period, losing to

Crossmaglen Rangers Crossmaglen Rangers Gaelic Athletic Club () is a GAA club in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. They cater for Gaelic football and camogie. Their home football ground is St. Oliver Plunkett Park, which was opened in 1959. In 1971 the ...

in 1999 and to Errigal Ciarán in 2002. The bid for seven championships in a row was ended by Derrygonnelly Harps in the 2004 county final. That great team went on to win one further county title in 2006. The club went into decline over the next decade, and by 2016, were on the brink of relegation to Junior football, scraping through a relegation play-off. Backboned by the 2017 Ulster Minor winning team, the club would claim the Fermanagh Intermediate crown in 2020. In the team's first year at senior, they reached the county final. A youthful Gaels team lost by nine points to Derrygonnelly. The Gaels reached their second consecutive final in 2022, facing Erne Gaels Belleek. Enniskillen were comfortable winners and ended a 16-year wait for the New York Cup.

Notable players

Raymond Curran Raymond Curran is a former Gaelic footballer who played for Enniskillen Gaels and the Fermanagh county team. He won an All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship in 1996, when – towards the end of the first game – he was fouled for a free, ...

Kieran McKenna Kieran McKenna (born 14 May 1986) is a professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player who is the manager of club Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town. Born in England, McKenna was raised in Nor ...

– former underage player * Jim Cleary

Honours

Football

: (0) ** Runners Up 1999, 2002 *

Fermanagh Senior Football Championship The Fermanagh Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Gaelic football clubs in Fermanagh. The winners of the Fermanagh Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Se ...

: (13) ** 1930, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006,

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* Fermanagh Intermediate Football Championship (5) ** 1971, 1977, 1984, 2013, 2020 * Fermanagh Junior Football Championship (3) ** 1989, 1998, 2004 *

Ulster Minor Club Football Championship The Ulster Minor Club Football Championship (), often referred to as the St. Paul's Tournament, an annual Gaelic football tournament organised and hosted by the St Paul's club in Belfast. It is played between the Minor championship winners from ea ...

: (2) ** 1988, 2017

Hurling

* Fermanagh Senior Hurling Championship: (2) ** 1979, 1990

References

External links

Official Enniskillen Gaels club website
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