Ballyfin GAA
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| Ballyfin GAA | |||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Laois | ||||||||||||||||
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| Club colours: | Green and White | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Cappinrush | ||||||||||||||||
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Ballyfin Gaelic Athletic Association club is a hurling and gaelic football club located in the village of Ballyfin in County Laois, Republic of Ireland.
The club colours are green and black for football and green and white for hurling.
The club grounds are at Cappinrush, beside Ballyfin's Roman Catholic church and locals have insisted it will always be there despite protests of newcomers into Ballyfin who insist its sectarianism.
The current Laois senior hurling player Sean Lowry is a member of the club as is Oliver Phelan who managed Laois to their 1996 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship.
In 2006, Ballyfin won the Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship to end a long spell in exile from senior ranks in Laois.
Ballyfin have won the laois Intermediate Hurling Championship on 3 occasions: 1970-defeating Ballinakill, 1985-defeating Clonaslee and most recently in 2006 overcoming Colt. In 1972 they made their one and only appearance in the Laois senior hurling championship final, losing out to Borris-in-Ossory. In 2005 Ballyfin captured the Laois U21B Hurling Championship, defeating Abbeyleix-Ballypickas at a blustery O'Moore Park to erase the memory of their 2004 defeat to Clonad.
