John Mitchel GFC

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John Mitchel GFC was established in Newry, Co Down in 1956 and is called after the Irish Patriot John Mitchel. The Club had the audacious ambition of winning the Down County Championship in 5 years and actually succeeded in 4 years, winning its first in 1960 and repeating the feat 3 more times in that decade in 1964, 1967 and 1968. Newry Mitchel's star forward Sean O'Neill also won 3 All-Ireland Championships with Down and was picked on the Gaelic Athletic Association's teams of the Century and Millennium.