Fintona Pearses
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| Founded: | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| County: | Tyrone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Pearses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club Colours: | Green & White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | St.Lawrence's Park | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fintona Pearses (Irish: Fionntamhnach Na Piarsaigh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and is named after the Irish poet and revolutionary, Patrick Pearse.
The club primarily concentrates on Gaelic football and there is also a Ladies Gaelic football club of the same name. CLG Setanta is another local club that provides for Hurling teams. All three clubs play at the same grounds, Saint Lawrence's Park.
The senior team currently competes in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and will play in the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship in 2007.
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[edit] History
Fintona Pearses was founded in early 1917 and despite some stop-starts in the 1920s, the club has been continuously active since 1932. At the time of founding there was already a club in the village, Fintona Davitts, which had been in existence since 1907 and the two sides met each other in competition twice in 1917. The Davitts club however went out of existence shortly afterwards.
Fintona was also home to the first Camogie club in Tyrone, called Fintona Rose Kavanaghs which was founded around the same time as Fintona Davitts.
Since the formation of the club, other past clubs in the local area have included Fintona Pearse Og, Aughafad and Carnlea.
[edit] Honours
The club won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship in 1938, defeating Cookstown in the final. The Davitts club also won the 1913-14 championship. The last appearance in the final was in 1979 when they lost out to Carrickmore.
An Intermediate Football Championship title was claimed in 1978 defeating Killyclogher and the Junior Football Championship title in 1975 after beating Gortin.
The Ladies Gaelic football club won the Tyrone Junior Ladies Football Championship in 2005, defeating Cill Iseal in the final. In the Ulster Junior Ladies Club Football Championship a win against Derry champions Claudy was recorded in the quarter-final before losing out to the eventual Ulster Champions, Clones from Monaghan.
[edit] Notable Players
Club player Aidan McCarron played for Tyrone in the 2006 and 2007 Dr McKenna Cup competitions. McCarron also played for New York in the Preliminary Round of the Connacht Senior Football Championship 2006 where they lost to Roscommon 1-14 to 0-9 with McCarron contributing 0-4.
Other Fintona players who have played Gaelic football for Tyrone in the recent past include Ted Garrity, Dermot King & Liam Grugan.
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| Tyrone Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| Affiliated Clubs | ||
| All-County Football League Division 1A | ||
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Aghyaran - Ardboe - Carrickmore - Coalisland- Cookstown- Donaghmore- Dromore- Errigal Ciarán - Galbally - Killeeshil - Killyclogher - Omagh |
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| All-County Football League Division 1B | ||
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Clann na nGael - Clonoe - Derrylaughan - Dungannon - Edendork - Gortin - Kildress - Loughmacrory - Moy - Pomeroy - Stewartstown - Trillick |
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| All-County Football League Division 2 | ||
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Aghaloo - Augher - Brocagh - Drumquin - Eglish - Eskra - Fintona - Greencastle - Killyman - Moortown - Strabane - Urney |
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| All-County Football League Division 3 | ||
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Beragh- Brackaville - Castlederg - Clogher - Derrytresk - Dregish - Drumragh - Errigal Ciarán Thirds - Glenelly - Newtownstewart - Owen Roes - Rock - Tattyreagh |
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| Hurling Clubs | ||
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Beragh - Clonfeacle - Camowen Gaels - Éire Óg, Carrickmore - Eoghain Rua, Dungannon - Naomh Colmcille - Naomh Eoin, Dromore - Setanta, Fintona - Shamrocks, Strabane |
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