Wicklow GAA

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For more information on Wicklow GAA see: Wicklow Senior Club Football Championship or Wicklow Senior Club Hurling Championship.

Wicklow GAA

Irish:

Cill Mhantáin

Province:

Leinster

Nickname:

The Garden County

County Colours:

Blue and gold

Grounds:

Aughrim Park, Aughrim

Dominant Sport:

Gaelic football

NFL:

Division 2

NHL:

Division 2

Football Championship:

Sam Maguire Cup

Hurling Championship:

Christy Ring Cup

Ladies' Gaelic football:

Brendan Martin Cup

Camogie:

O'Duffy Cup





Standard colours

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

1 History
2 Honours
3 Gaelic football
4 Hurling
5 External links

[edit] History

Wicklow are one of two counties never to have won a senior provincial championship (the other is Fermanagh), but Bray Emmets, the leading side of the early 1900s, won Leinster and All-Ireland honours when they were playing in the Dublin Championship.

[edit] Honours

All-Ireland Senior B Football Champions 1992, JF champions in 1936, JH twice in 1967 and 1971, 2 Vocational F in 1974 and 1983. 2 JH in 1967 and 1971. Inter H finalists in 1971, JF finalists in 1969. Women's JF in 1990. Baltinglass won Club F 1990. Leinster SF finalists in 1897. Semi-finalists 14 times (last in 1995). Leinster MF champions in 1974. O'Byrne Cup in 1986 and 1996

[edit] Gaelic football

Wicklow were twice proclaimed Leinster champions for short periods. Bray were representing Wicklow in 1889, and when they beat Newtown Blues of Drogheda by 1-7 to 1-4 they claimed that they had won the "final of Leinster" because Queens County or Kilkenny had not shown up for a final. But four days later the result was quashed. In 1897 they became Leinster champions for a week. A downpour caused Dublin to presume the Leinster final would not be played, Dublin went home, the referee awarded a walk-over to Wicklow. But the following meeting of the Central Council ordered the match to be replayed and Wicklow lost by 1-9 to 0-3. A League semi-final in frostbound 1947 came about in bizarre fashion: Wicklow were picked to represent an unfinished group in which some of the teams had not yet played. In 1954 Wicklow were leading Meath by two points after sixty minutes of play but Meath were saved by the clock. Nine minutes of lost time had elapsed before Meath scored the winning point! After surviving the "long count" Meath went on to win the All-Ireland, and Wicklow lost their best player of the decade, John Timmons, to Dublin. A near thing against Meath, just off their four-match with Dublin in 1991 (Wicklow drew 0-12 to 1-9 and lost the replay by three points) heralded a great start to the 1990s. But Wicklow's only championship wins since were against Longford and Westmeath, and a 1996 League quarter-final appearance against Donegal their nearest to a breakthrough. Laying in wait for complacent opponents, particularly in Aughrim, for unsuspecting opposition has been the Wicklow trademark since. Exploits included a 1986 win over newly crowned League champions Laois at Aughrim, and a 1981 defeat by just two points against Dublin in the Leinster quarter-final, after a miracle save in the last minute by Dublin's goalkeeper - the Wicklow--born John O'Leary.

Wicklow's biggest achievement remains the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship won by the Baltinglass club in 1990.

[edit] Hurling

Wicklow hurlers' greatest achievement was a draw with Galway in the 1971 National Hurling League. Only a late point from John Connolly saved Galway from defeat. Wicklow also won junior All-Ireland's in 1967 and 1971. Leading clubs include Carnew Emmets, Kiltegan, Arklow Rocks and Glenealy

[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 - Christy Ring Cup (2006)
Antrim \| Carlow \| Down \| Kerry \| Kildare \| London \| Mayo \| Meath \| Roscommon \| Wicklow
Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3)