Killester Basketball Club is an Irish
basketball
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club based in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...
. Established in 1967 by Michael Casey, Killester is one of the oldest and most successful civilian basketball clubs in Ireland. The club's senior men's and women's representative teams both play in Ireland's top national leagues.
Killester have training and playing facilities at St. David's CBS in
Artane and
St. Fintan's High School in
Sutton
Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
England
In alphabetical order by county:
* Sutton, Bedfordshire
* Sutton, Berkshire, a location
* Sutton-in-the-Isle, Ely, Cambridgeshire
* S ...
. The Super League teams play their home games at the
IWA Sports Hall in
Clontarf.
History
In 1973, Killester BC entered a men's team into the Irish
National League
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for the competition's inaugural season. Between 1975 and 1977, Killester won three championships in a row. In 1978, a women's competition was established, and a Killester women's side won the competition's first two titles.
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Between 2001 and 2014, the Killester men won five championships and three National Cup titles.
Achievements
* 8× Irish Men's National League champions: 1975, 1976, 1977, 2001, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2014Roll of Honour 1973 - 2014
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* 5× Irish Men's National Cup champions: 1987, 2001, 2008, 2010, 2019
* 2× Irish Women's National League champions: 1979, 1980
* 3× Irish Women's National Cup champions: 2002, 2005, 2020
Notable past players
* Michael Bonaparte
* Mario Elie
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* Michael Goj
* Kenny Perkins
* Kelvin Troy
*/ Jermaine Turner
References
External links
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{{Irish Super League
Killester
Super League (Ireland) teams
Basketball teams in County Dublin