Liam Mellows 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 ...

club located in

Renmore Renmore () is a suburb of Galway, Ireland, around 2 km east of the city centre. Renmore runs east along the coast and south of the Old Dublin Road ( R338), from the shore of Lough Atalia on its west side to Lurgan Park on its east. The ar ...

, a suburb of

Galway City Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...

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. The club is primarily concerned with the game of

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 ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...

. The club is named after IRB member

Liam Mellows William Joseph Mellows (, 25 May 1892 – 8 December 1922) was an Irish republicanism, Irish republican and Sinn Féin politician. Born in England to an English father and Irish mother, he grew up in Ashton-under-Lyne before moving to Ireland, ...

. On 12 November 2017, Liam Mellows reached their first

Galway Senior Hurling Championship The Galway Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Brooks Galway Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Galway County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the ...

final since 1970 after defeating

Cappataggle Cappataggle () is a village located between the towns of Loughrea and Ballinasloe in east County Galway. With the areas Kilrickle and Killalaghton it forms an ecclesiastical parish of the same name. The name Cappataggle is an anglicisation o ...

by 0-13 to 1-9 in Athenry. On 3 December 2017 they beat

Gort Gort ( or ) is a town of around 2,800 inhabitants in County Galway in the west of Ireland. Located near the border with County Clare, the town lies between the Burren and the Slieve Aughty and is served by the R458 road (Ireland), R458 and R460 ...

to win the

championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...

. They were defeated by the All Ireland Champions Cuala in the semi-final in

Thurles Thurles (; ''Durlas Éile'') is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is located in the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Eliogarty and in the ecclesiastical parish of Thurles. The cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Arch ...

. On 21 October 2023, Liam Mellows GAA club won their first Galway Junior A Camogie Championship. Niamh McPeake was named the "player of the game".

Hurling Titles

* Connacht Senior Club Hurling Championships: ** 1970, *

s: ** 1935, 1945, 1946, 1968, 1970,

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* Galway Minor Hurling Championship ** 1947, 2003

Notable players

* David Collins * Tadhg Haran * Jimmy Hegarty *

John Lee John Lee may refer to: Academia * John Lee (astronomer) (1783–1866), president of the Royal Astronomical Society * John Lee (university principal) (1779–1859), University of Edinburgh principal * John Lee (pathologist) (born 1961), Engli ...

* Jimmy Duggan

References

External links

Official Site
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