Sarsfield's GAA (Kildare)
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| Founded: | 1897 | ||||||||||||||||
| County: | Kildare | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | `"The Sash" | ||||||||||||||||
| Club Colours: | Green jersey and white sash | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Richardstown | ||||||||||||||||
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Sarsfields is a GAA club based in Newbridge in County Kildare, winner of 12 Kildare county senior football championships. However, they also claim credit for nine Kildare senior titles won by Roseberry prior to 1915. These titles are disputed by many Kildare GAA pundits, as the Roseberry team was basically a grouping of players from other existing GAA clubs (including Moorefield GAA). The club name is linked to Patrick Sarsfield’s castle in the area and the colours, green with white sash, were based the colours allegedly worn by Sarsfield’s men. Paddy "Boiler" White was a member of the Kildare Gaelic football team of the millennium. Niall Buckley was an All Stars Award winner at midfield in 1997. Dermot Earley was an All Stars Award at left half forward winner in 1998.
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[edit] History
Newbridge always had two and sometimes three GAA clubs. Newbridge 'Hare and Hounds' drew with Moorefield in the 1888 championship. RIC records from 1890 show that Hare and Hounds had 47 members with officers listed as James Farrell, Pat Cox, John Quinn and Edward Wallis. An application from a third club based in the CYMS, St. Conleth's, was rejected in January 1891 because membership was confined to Catholics. A St Conleth’s team successfully affiliated in the 1900s.
[edit] Roseberry & Marble Arch
Roseberry, based near Newbridge College a mile outside the North-Eastern end of the town was founded by W. P. O'Sullivan in 1897. The club was an amalgamation of players from other GAA clubs who decided to group togther and form a stonger team to take on the challange of the 'mighty' Clane who dominated Kildare GAA at the time. The early Roseberry team consisted of many Moorefield GAA players. Roseberry beat Naas in the 1904 county finals and won nine titles in succession, losing just five of their 47 championship ties in that period. St Conleth’s fielded a football team after several Roseberry players defected to them in 1919. Another club, Marble Arch was founded in the 1920s, swept through the Junior Championship and lost the infamous 1932 Intermediate final to Castledermot. In 1933 Marble Arch won the Intermediate and Roseberry the Junior championships. In 1936 Roseberry and Marble Arch merged to form Sarsfields.
[edit] Gaelic Football
Nine Roseberry players played on the Kildare team that reached the All Ireland final in 1903, Jack and Mick Fitzgeralds, Jim and Mick Murray, Jack Gorman, Matt Donnelly, Jim Scott, Mick Kennedy and Frank ‘Joyce” Conlan. A nephew of the team captain Jack Murray was Mick Geraghty who featured in the emergence of the new Sarsfields club that won five titles in seven years after 1945, including a three-in-a-row 1950-2. Roscommon star Dermot Earley featured on the Sarsfields team that regained the title in 1982, his son Dermot played on the team that won five county titles after 1993. Sarsfields’ closest to a Leinster title came in 2005, when they beat Éire Óg of Carlow and Mattock Rangers of Louth but lost the Leinster final to Kilmacud Crokes 0-9 to 0-10, having trailed 0-8 to 0-3 at half-time and fought back bravely in the second half. The club enjoys a particularly bittersweet rivalry with town neighbours Moorefield, and as their respective fortunes rise and fall each side can be trusted to support the other, and indeed enjoy each others fortune.
[edit] Hurling
St Conleth’s hurling club (sometimes referred to as Newbridge College) won the Kildare senior championship in 1900 and 1901 and the junior championship in 1936 and 1938. Sarsfield’s intend to set up a hurling club.
[edit] Camogie
Newbridge Irish Ropes club affiliated briefly to Kildare camogie board in 1956 with their colours registered as kingfisher (turquoise), blue and white.
[edit] Ladies Football
Sarsfields were Kildare junior champions in 2003 and intermediate champions in 2004. They also won the Leinster Intermediate Chmpionship in 2004.
[edit] Honours Roseberry
- Kildare Senior F Champions 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1912, 1915.
- Junior F Champions 1924, 1933.
[edit] Honours Sarsfields
- Leinster Club F Finalists 2005.
- Kildare Senior F Champions 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1982, 1986, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2005.
- Junior F Champions 1924, 1933.
- Jack Higgins Cup 1985.
[edit] Bibliography
- Sarsfields GFC 86 Golden Years 1897 To 1983 by Tommy O'Hanlon, Sarsfields GAA 1983, 108pp.
- Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
- Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
- Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
[edit] External links
| Kildare Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| Affiliated Clubs | ||
| Senior Football Championship | ||
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Allenwood - Athy - Carbury - Celbridge - Clane - Confey - Ellistown - Kilcock - Kilcullen - Leixlip - Maynooth - Moorefield - Naas - Round Towers - Sarsfield's - St Laurence’s |
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| Intermediate Football Championship | ||
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Ardclough - Ballymore - Ballyteague - Castledermot - Castlemitchell - Eadestown - Grange - Johnstownbridge - Kill - Monasterevin - Nurney - Raheens - Rathangan - Rheban - Sallins - St Kevin’s - Suncroft |
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| Junior Football Championship | ||
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Athgarvan - Ballykelly - Cappagh - Caragh - Clogherinkoe - Kildangan - Milltown - Rathcoffey - Robertstown - Straffan - Two Mile House |
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| Senior Hurling | ||
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Ardclough - Celbridge - Clane - Coill Dubh - Confey - Éire Og/Corrachoill - Kilcock - Leixlip - Maynooth - Naas |
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| Other Hurling clubs | ||
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Athy - Broadford - Broadford - Ros Glas - Moorefield - Naomh Bríd - St Laurence's - Sallins |
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| Underage Amalgamations | ||
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Cill Éide - Geraldines - Na Fianna - St Coca's - St Edward's |
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