Ballyporeen GAA

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Ballyporeen GAA
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Ballyporeen GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parish of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary in Ireland. The club plays Gaelic football at Senior level as part of the South division of Tipperary GAA. The handball section of the club has also had considerable success.

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The club fields Minor, Under-21 and Senior football teams. At juvenile level the Ballyporeen club also takes in footballers from, and provides hurlers for the hurling club in the neighbouring townland of Skeheenarinky, part of the same parish.

History

The club was founded in 1887, just three years after the formation of the GAA.

Historically the club has played under various names including Templetenny Rangers, [1] Western Rangers [2] and the Brian Borus, a team made up of members from Ballyporeen and Clogheen. Currently (2016) the team is closely linked with the hurling club in Skeheenarinky. Their common home ground is in Ballyporeen where there is access to modern dressing rooms and floodlighting.

Ballyporeen's most notable victories at county level to date were in 1992 and 2013, when it secured the Intermediate titles. The club advanced to the county's Senior championship, and retained that rank in a relegation play-off in October 2015.

Ballyporeen took part in the fourth series of the reality television show, Celebrity Bainisteoir, which was broadcast in Autumn 2011. Model Gillian Quinn was the club's celebrity mentor. [3] After losing the "swim off" against the Laois club Killeshin, the latter got home advantage and went on to eliminate Ballyporeen in the first round.

Honours

Notable players

The following Ballyporeen clubmen have played at county Senior level in at least two seasons:

Handball

Ballyporeen's first handball court was built in 1908 and the club was formed the following year, in its history producing 21 All-Ireland Champions and numerous County and Provincial Champions. Con "Shine" Moloney (1906-1963) and Paddy Ormonde brought the first Senior All Ireland Hardball Doubles Handball Championship to Ballyporeen in 1929, and again in 1931. [4] In 1930 Tommy Moloney (1908-1943) and Ned O'Gorman won the All Ireland Junior Hardball Doubles Handball Championship for Ballyporeen. [4] Eddie Corbett from Ballyporeen has won the United Sports Panel Award for Handball in 1987, 1993 and 1994 and shared it with John O'Donoghue in 1990 and 1991. Today Ballyporeen Handball & Racquetball Club has one glass backwalled 40 X 20 court and one 60 X 30 court.

Ballyporeen Handball Titles

World Champions

United States Champion

All Ireland Champions

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References

  1. Bassett, George Henry, The Book of Tipperary; Bassett's Directory, Dublin (1889)
  2. Irish Tourism Report (1942), available at the Tipperary Local Studies library, Thurles
  3. "Celebrity Bainisteoir (Official RTE website)". Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  4. 1 2 Murphy,Sean (ed.) 1884-1984 A History of Handball in Munster Munster Handball Council; Pallaskenny (1984), p179