St Vincent's Hurling and Football Club 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 based in the Blarney Street and

Sundays Well Sunday's Well () is a suburb of Cork city in Ireland. It is situated in the north-west of the city, on a ridge on the northern bank of the River Lee. Sunday's Well is part of the Dáil constituency of Cork North-Central. The area's former 19th ...

parts of

Cork city Cork ( ; from , meaning 'marsh') is the second-largest city in Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the county town of County Cork, the largest city in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the List of settlements on the island of Ireland ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. It also includes in its catchment area

Gurranabraher Gurranabraher () is a residential suburb on the north western side of Cork City. Its bounds range from the North Cathedral to Bakers Road to Blarney Street. Gurranabraher is located in Cork North-Central Dáil Éireann constituency. Amenities ...

, Churchfield and

Knocknaheeny Knocknaheeny () is a working class suburb of Cork city, Ireland. It is on a hill about 2 km north of the city centre. The area is mainly residential, consisting of many terraced council housing estates. Knocknaheeny contains Apple's Europe ...

. Teams are fielded in

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 ...

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 participates in

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

competitions and in Seandún board competitions. The greatest achievements in the club's history was winning the 1968

Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship The Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Cork Intermediate A Hurling Championship and abbreviated to the Cork IAHC) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Cork County Board ...

and the 2006 & 2012 Premier Intermediate Football Championship. As a result, they were promoted to senior status after both Premier Intermediate Football Championship wins but were not able to maintain senior status. The club now plays in the Premier Intermediate Football Championship and Junior A Hurling Championship.

History

In 1943, St Vincent's Hurling and Football Club was founded to promote Gaelic games in the Blarney Street and Sundays Well areas on the North West side of Cork City. Later, as the city grew, their catchment area expanded to encompass Gurranabraher, Churchfield and Knocknaheeny. By 1946, the club had won the Junior Football County Final and was one of the first clubs in the county to own their own pitch. The grounds were redeveloped on a couple of occasions over the decades culminating in the activities from the early 1990s which saw the building of a modern complex housing several dressing rooms, meeting rooms, a large training hall, 3 adult size pitches and a social club in Blarney Road. An all-weather pitch was also installed. On the playing side, the club has a number of honours over the years at all levels including the intermediate hurling county title in 1968 and a senior hurling league in 1972. The club won the Minor Premier County in 1998. The club went on to win its first intermediate football title in 2006, and a second one came in 2012. The club celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2018.

Honours

Cork Senior Football Championship The Cork Premier Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the McCarthy Insurance Group Cork Premier Senior Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PSFC) is an annual club Gaelic football competition organised by t ...

(0): (runners-up in 1948) *

(1): 1968 *

Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship The Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as McCarthy Insurance Group Cork County Premier Intermediate Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork PIFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition orga ...

(2): 2006, 2012 *

Munster Intermediate Club Football Championship The Munster Football Intermediate Club Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 2003 for the top intermediate clubs in the province of Munster in Ireland. It i ...

(0): (runners-up in 2012) *

Cork Junior Football Championship The Cork Junior A Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Bon Secours Cork Junior A Football Championship and abbreviated to the Cork JAFC) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Cork GAA, Cork County Board ...

(1): 1946 * Cork Premier Minor Football Championship (1): 1998 * Cork Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1957 * Cork Minor B Football Championship (1): 1990 * Cork Minor B Hurling Championship (1): 1986 * Cork City Junior Hurling Championship (3): 1951, 1954, 1957 * Cork City Junior Football Championship (3): 1946, 1950, 1966 * City Junior C Football Championship (1): 2021

Notable club members

* Paddy Barry – hurling goalkeeper with Cork.

1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship The 1970 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 84th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament. The championship began on 3 May 1970 and ended on 6 S ...

winning captain *

Miah Dennehy Jeremiah Dennehy (29 March 1950 – 10 November 2023) was an Irish footballer whose teams included Cork Hibernians, Nottingham Forest, Walsall and Bristol Rovers. In 1972, he became the first-ever player to score a hat-trick in an FAI Cup final. ...

– a Republic of Ireland international footballer *

Seán Óg Murphy John Francis "Seán Óg" Murphy (17 September 1892 – 11 June 1956) was an Irish Hurling, hurler who played as a full-back for the Cork GAA, Cork senior team. Born in Cork (city), Merchant Street, Cork, Murphy first played competitive hurling ...

– winner of several All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medals in the 1920s *

Amy O'Connor Amy O'Connor (born ) is an Irish camogie player who plays for her club, St Vincent's GAA, in Cork and at inter-county level with the Cork Senior camogie team. Since her senior inter-county debut in 2014, she has won six Senior All-Ireland Camog ...

– Cork camogie player and captain of

2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship The 2023 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, known for sponsorship reasons as the Glen Dimplex Senior All-Ireland Championship, was the premier inter-county competition of the 2023 camogie season. Twelve county teams from Ireland competed. ...

winning team *

Paddy O'Shea Paddy O'Shea (born 12 April 1981 in Cork, Ireland) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays 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 ...

– reserve goalkeeper on Cork football panel that won the All Ireland in 2010 and holder of Div 1 and 2 National League medals and 3 Munster Championship medals

References

External links

St Vincent's website
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History

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Notable club members

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