Rathdowney 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 in Rathdowney, County Laois,

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. The club colours are green and red and the club grounds are called Kelly O'Daly Park. The club currently amalgamates at all levels 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 ...

with neighbouring club Errill and in 2006 the Rathdowney-Errill team won the Laois Senior Hurling Championship for the first time ever. The Rathdowney club itself holds 18 Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles and was the leader of the 'Order of Merit' in the number of Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles for a long number of years.

Achievements

* Laois Senior Hurling Championship: (18) 1888, 1889, 1898, 1899, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941 * Laois Senior Football Championship: Runner-Up 1907, 1909, 1913

References

Gaelic games clubs in County Laois Gaelic football clubs in County Laois {{Leinster-GAA-club-stub