Fethard GAA is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...

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 located in the medieval town of

Fethard, County Tipperary Fethard (; ) (archival records) is a small town in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Dating to the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Defensive wall, town's walls were first laid-out in the 13th century, with some sections of these ...

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. The club is affiliated to the

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Division of

Tipperary GAA The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary and the Tipperary county teams. County Tippe ...

. They have been Tipperary Senior Football champions on a record twenty one occasions.

History

The Tipperary county footballers that were attacked at

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on Bloody Sunday of 1920 wore the

Grangemockler Grangemockler () is a village, civil parish and townland in southeastern County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located southwest of Ninemilehouse on the N76 national secondary road. As of the 2011 census, Grangemockler townland had a population of ...

colours. At that time the county wore the colours of its county champions, not having an official jersey. Fethard were the then county champions but, instead of Fethard's blue and white, Grangemockler's white and green was worn instead. The county footballers wore a white and green commemorative jersey for the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship final - a replica of the jersey colours worn in 1920. The club grounds is "Fethard GAA Park", or the Barracks field as it's known as locally, Due to the fact it was once part of the army drill grounds. In 1931 upon arrival in Fethard Br Leo Slattery, the thorny process of acquiring the field began. However it took another Brother, Br Albert Small to sort all the legal matters. On Sunday ninth July 1974, the field and grounds were officially opened by Fr Cunningham, local curate. On 11 May 1982, following improvements to the grounds, it was officially opened as Fethard GAA Park. The medieval Town Wall circumnavigating Fethard runs along the southern boundary of the grounds. The facilities present include a full sized field, a patrons stand, two tennis courts, two covered handball courts, dressing rooms and an Astro turf facility completed in 2017.

Honours

* Tipperary Senior Football Champions (21) 1887, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928, 1938, 1942, 1954, 1957, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2001 * Tipperary Minor A Football Championship Winners (4) 1957, 1985, 1989, 1999 * South Tipperary Senior Football Championship Winners (27) 1914, 1917, 1918, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1938, 1942, 1943, 1950, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2005 * South Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (3) 1919, 1937, 1938 * South Tipperary Minor A Football Championship Winners (10) 1932, 1933, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1972, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1999 *

Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship The Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised since 1974 by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association for the second-tier Gaelic football clubs in County Tipperary in I ...

(1) 2016 * South Tipperary Intermediate Football Championship (2) 2016, 2025 * Tipperary Junior Football Championship Winners (2) 1926 (with Annervale Rovers), 1999 * South Tipperary Junior Football Championship Winners (10) 1913, 1919, 1923, 1926 (with Annervale Rovers), 1929, 1984, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2008 * Tipperary Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1998, 2012 * South Tipperary Junior B Football Championship Winners (2) 1998, 2012 * South Tipperary Junior Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1978 * Tipperary Under-21 Football Championship Winners (2 (8) 1966, 1967, 1968, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002 * South Tipperary Under-21 Football Championship (10) 1966, 1967, 1978, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 * South Tipperary Under-21 B Football Championship (1) 2007 * South Tipperary Under-21 B Hurling Championship (4) 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001 * South Tipperary Minor B Football Championship (1) 2007 * South Tipperary Minor Hurling Championship (2) 1932, 1941 * South Tipperary Minor B Hurling Championship (3) 1987, 1996, 2007

Notable players

* Glen Burke

References

External links

fethardgaa.com
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