Sligo GAA

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:For more details of Sligo GAA see Sligo Senior Club Football Championship or Sligo Senior Club Hurling Championship.

Sligo GAA

Irish:

Sligeach

Province:

Connacht

Nickname:

The Yeats County

County Colours:

Black and White

Grounds:

Markievicz Park, Sligo

Dominant Sport:

Gaelic football

NFL:

Division 2

NHL:

Division 3

Football Championship:

Sam Maguire Cup

Hurling Championship:

Nicky Rackard Cup

Ladies' Gaelic football:

Brendan Martin Cup

Camogie:

O'Duffy Cup





Standard colours

The Sligo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Sligeach) or Sligo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Sligo. The county board is also responsible for the Sligo inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.

1 History
2 Gaelic football
3 Hurling
4 External links

[edit] History

With a much smaller population than either Galway or Mayo, the two dominant forces in the province, together with competing interests of soccer in the county's capital town, Sligo has never been able to break free of the shackles inherent in the provincial championship format and has a paltry two Connacht championships to its name (1928 and 1975). Since the introduction of the "back-door" system in All Ireland championship in 2001, Sligo football has enjoyed noteworthy if modest success. The new format together with a prolonged period of competing in Division 1 of the national league saw an upward turn in the county's fortunes. In 2002, having narrowly lost the Connacht final to then All-Ireland Champions Galway, Sligo went on to defeat Tyrone in Croke Park turning over a seven point deficit in one of the matches of the decade. A similar comeback against eventual All-Ireland champions Armagh two weeks later set the county and the championship alive and after Sligo had legitmate claims for a penalty in injury time of the replay turned down^{[citation needed]}, Armagh went on to win the 2002 championship. Despite its poor historical record, the new championship format has seen Sligo achieve the status of respectability on the national stage in the past 7-10 years with improvement noticeable across all grades in the county.

Three sligo players have won All-Stars - Mickey Kearins (1971 - St. Pats), Barnes Murphy (1974 - Castleconnor) and Eamon O Hara (2002 - Tourlestrane) while arguably their most revered player of the last half century ^{[citation needed]} due to his natural talent and scoring ability, Paul Taylor (Eastern Harps) was nominated once in the late 1990s.

Sligo club football is not dominated by any single team with no back to back winners for more than 10 years.

[edit] Gaelic football

Club football

St. Marys are Sligos most successful club team with 3 Connacht titles to their name (1977, 1980 and 1983). They also won the All-Ireland sevens title in 1983. Despite being the most celebrated club in the county they remain one of the worst supported sides due to the dominance of soccer in Sligo town and because of their reputation for 'importing' players from other clubs and counties^{[citation needed]}. In recent years St. Mary's has lost their strangehold on the county championship with Eastern Harps, Curry, Bunninaden, Coolera and Tourlestrane with all legitmate claims of being the top team of the 2000s^{[citation needed]}. Other notable Senior teams in the next tier include Easkey, Castleconnor and Shamrock Gaels.

In 2005, Coolera won its first ever Senior title having narrowly lost the 2000 final to Buninaden who at that time had not won a title for more than 100 years.

[edit] Hurling

[edit] External links

Gaelic Athletic Association (2006)
National Football League
Division 1	A	Cork \| Dublin \| Fermanagh \| Kerry \| Mayo \| Monaghan \| Offaly \| Tyrone
Division 1	B	Armagh \| Derry \| Down \| Galway \| Kildare \| Laois \| Meath \| Wexford
Division 2	A	Carlow \| Clare \| Donegal \| Leitrim \| London \| Longford \| Roscommon \| Westmeath
Division 2	B	Antrim \| Cavan \| Limerick \| Louth \| Sligo \| Tipperary \| Waterford \| Wicklow
National Hurling League
Division 1	A	Clare \| Cork \| Down \| Offaly \| Waterford \| Wexford
Division 1	B	Antrim \| Galway \| Kilkenny \| Laois \| Limerick \| Tipperary
Division 2	A	Carlow \| Derry \| Dublin \| Meath \| Roscommon \| Wicklow
Division 2	B	Kerry \| Kildare \| London \| Mayo \| Westmeath
Division 3	A	Donegal \| Leitrim \| Louth \| Monaghan \| Sligo
Division 3	B	Armagh \| Cavan \| Fermanagh \| Longford \| Tyrone
Connacht \| Leinster \| Munster \| Ulster \| Third level

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Nicky Rackard Cup (2006)
Armagh \| Cavan \| Derry \| Donegal \| Fermanagh \| Leitrim \| Longford \| Louth \| Monaghan \| Sligo \| Tyrone \| Warwickshire
Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3)