Donegal GAA
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:For more details of Donegal GAA see Donegal Senior Club Football Championship or Donegal Senior Club Hurling Championship.
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| Irish: | Dún na nGall | ||||||||||||||||
| Province: | Ulster | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s): | The Tír Conaill Men | ||||||||||||||||
| County Colours: | Gold and green | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | MacCumhail Park, Ballybofey | ||||||||||||||||
| Dominant Sport: | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||
| NFL: | Division 1A | ||||||||||||||||
| NHL: | Division 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Hurling Championship: | Nicky Rackard Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup | ||||||||||||||||
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The Donegal County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Dún na nGall) or Donegal GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Donegal. The county board is also responsible for the Donegal inter-county teams
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[edit] History
Gaelic is strongest in the south-west of Donegal, with the north-west having more of a soccer tradition (Buncrana footballers played their football on the local golf links in the 1940s). It was a remarkable Bundoran hotelier Brian McEniff who brought the county success as a player in 1972 and 1974 and as a manager in 1983 and, eventually, to the 1992 All Ireland title. Donegal also went to an All ireland semi-final in 2003.
[edit] Gaelic football
Donegal's greatest footballing accomplishment to date came on September 20, 1992 when they won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, beating Dublin in the final 0-18 to 0-14.
Donegal teams won Ulster championships and had finished strongly in 1972 and 1974 All Ireland semi-finals indicating a high level of fitness, but were beaten by Offaly and Galway respectively. A winning under-21 team in 1987 provided the basis for the success of the 1990s. Brian 1983 McEniff's Donegal, bolstered with the victorious 1982 under-21s, won the Ulster championship but a miskicked free let Val Daly through for Galway's clinching goal and fortunate victory five minutes from the end of the All Ireland semi-final.
Brian McEniff was serving in his second spell as Donegal manager in 1992 when he directed Donegal to the Sam Maguire cup. Donegal won the match in the minutes before half-time after Dublin went three points up and missed a penalty. Man of the match Manus Boyle scored 0-9 (four from play), Gary Walsh had a great save from Vinny Murphy at the end. Donegal contested five successive Ulster finals, one of them replayed, a unique achievement for the province. They then proceeded to contest the National League final three times in a four year period without success, playing another replay against Dublin in the process.
The squad on that day in 1992 was: G. Walsh, B. McGowan, M. Gallagher, N. Hegarty, D. Reid, M. Gavigan, J.J. Doherty, A. Molloy, B. Murray, J. McHugh, M. McHugh, J. McMullan, D. Bonner, T. Boyle, M. Boyle. Sub: B. Cunningham
[edit] Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 1
- 1992
- All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships: 2
- 1982, 1987
- Ulster Senior Football Championships: 5
- 1972, 1974, 1983, 1990, 1992
[edit] Hurling
There are several hurling clubs in Donegal, but there has been limited inter-county success bar 3 senior and 4 junior Ulster titles, the last senior win in 1932. Donegal has a residue of pre-GAA hurling. The Burt Hibernians brought Donegal the 1906 hurling Championship, defeating Antrim by 25 points to one. Burt later played in Derry. In 1923 Donegal fielded a team of three natives augmented with guards and customs officers from hurling counties to win their second Ulster hurling Championship. When they lined out for the semi-final, wearing blue jerseys against Limerick on a cold, miserable day in Croke Park, numbers were worn by the players for the first time to help the spectators to distinguish them. They trailed 5-4 to nil at half-time and lost 7-4 to 0-1.
Donegal currently compete in Division 3 of the NHL and in the Nicky Rackard Cup. They reached the final of the 2006 Nicky Rackard Cup where they were defeated by Derry. The game was played in Croke Park with live coverage on RTÉ. It was the first time in 83 years that Donegal hurlers had played in Croke Park.
[edit] Honours
- Ulster Senior Hurling Championships: 3
- 1906, 1923, 1932
[edit] External links
- Donegal GAA site
- Donegal on Hoganstand.com
- National and provincial titles won by Donegal teams
- Club championship winners
| Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| National Football League | ||
| Division 1 | A |
Cork | Donegal | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Limerick| Mayo | Tyrone |
| B |
Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Louth | Westmeath |
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| Division 2 | A |
Carlow | Clare | Leitrim | London | Longford | Monaghan| Offaly | Roscommon |
| B |
Antrim | Cavan | Meath | Sligo | Tipperary | Wexford| Waterford | Wicklow |
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| National Hurling League | ||
| Division 1 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 2 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 3 | A | |
| B | ||
| Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level | ||
| All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Nicky Rackard Cup (2007) | ||
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Armagh | Cavan | Donegal | Fermanagh | Leitrim | Longford | Louth | Monaghan | Roscommon | Sligo | Tyrone | Warwickshire |
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Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3) |
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