Clonad
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| County: | Laois | ||||||||||||||||
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| Club Colours: | Green with gold sash, white shorts | ||||||||||||||||
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Clonad Gaelic Athletic Association Club is a hurling club in County Laois, Ireland.
The club was founded in 1915 by Lar Brady and Jim Bergin to promote hurling in the country area to the south of Portlaoise. Clonad was promoted to the senior grade in 1927 and won its first Laois senior hurling title in 1930.
The club has added 13 Laois Senior Hurling Championships since then, the most recent being in 1992. Other years are as follows; 1930, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1970.
Clonad has also won the O'Bradaigh Cup twice, the Centenary Cup in 1984 and U-21 and minor hurling titles.
The captain of the last Laois team to win the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship in 1949 was a Clonad player, Paddy Ruschitzko.
While Clonad GAA club has successfully fielded underage and adult gaelic football teams in the past, football is not played in the club at present.
In the 1950's Clonad won the Laois Junior Football Championship and Laois Intermediate Football Championship. Despite this success the emphasis was always on hurling and football has only featured infrequently since then.
These days, club members interested in football usually play with the neigbhouring football clubs at The Heath and Ballyroan.
The club colours are green with a gold sash.
