Skye Camanachd
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| Full name | Skye Camanachd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaelic name | Comann Camanachd an Eilein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Na Sgitheanaich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1895 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Pairc nan Laoch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Alasdair Morrison | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | North Division One | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 6th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Skye Camanachd is a shinty team from the Isle of Skye, Highland, Scotland. It plays in North Division One and has a reserve team in North Division Two.
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[edit] Early History
There was a Portree Club and a Bernisdale Club in existence in the 1880s. However, Skye Camanachd in its present form, came into being in 1895. Skye had a strong tradition of playing shinty on the Old Celtic New Year. The club was a founding member of the Camanachd Association and entered the Camanachd Cup despite mainland clubs trying to force them to play on the mainland. The club had to wait almost 100 years to get its hands on the Camanachd Cup.
[edit] Camanachd Cup 1990
Skye famously won the Camanachd Cup for the first time in their history in 1990 against Newtonmore in Fort William. Inspirational in this victory was player, Willie Cowie and his brother, manager Ross Cowie. Their exploits were recorded for posterity by the BBC program "Home" which filmed behind the scences on the day as well as the triumphant homecoming to Portree where they were met by a crowd of 5000 people, almost half the island's population. The celebrations are famous for the expensive trophy being lost and then found in the street at 6 in the morning the next day, the local legend being that everybody else thought that someone else was looking after it.
[edit] Recent times
Skye have never again achieved the high of winning the Camanachd Cup, however they did achieve Premier division status in the early 2000s before being relegated. The club has shown a flair for another sort of promotion however, securing lucrative sponsorship deals with Danish firms Carlsberg and Hummel. The club's ground Pairc nan Laoch (Gaelic for Park of Heroes) is in Portree, Isle of Skye.
[edit] Pride of the Summer
Skye Camanachd feature heavily in the song "Pride of the Summer" by Runrig.
- I still see the blood on the knees
- The camans swing without warning
- The lads in white
- At the speed of light
- It's good to be young and daring
[edit] External links
- Skye Camanachd Homepage
- Skye Defeat Caberfeidh, May 2008
- West Highland Free Press, Skye Shinty Reports
- Runrig Home Page
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