Clane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of 17 Kildare county senior football championships, 16 county senior hurling championships and Kildare club of the year in 1975. Clane players are credited with bringing the handpass into Gaelic football.[citation needed]
Clane town sports pre-date the GAA, those of 12 June 1884 on a field opposite the Dispensary House being reported as "ayquel to Punchestown" by the Leinster Leader. A Leinster Leader report in April 1887 stated that Clane had "the honour of being the first club to be established in County Kildare". Clane were the first Kildare football champions. A Clongowes teacher member of the team, Professor Crowley, was later accredited with having invented the handpass.[citation needed] RIC records from 1890 show that Clane's William O'Briens had 50 members with officers listed as CJ O'Connor (who was also first chairman of Kildare county board) John Geoghegan, Maurice Sammon and James Archer. A set of white jerseys from a house rugby team at Clongowes, used by the club after 1901, were used for the 1903 All Ireland final leading to the tradition of Kildare wearing all white as their county colours: the Lily Whites.[citation needed]
Gaelic Football
The Clane-Roseberry duopoly between 1901 and 1910 was responsible for raising standards in Kildare.[original research?] A number of Clane players participated in Kildare's twice-replayed home final appearance against Kerry in 1903 and first All Ireland success in 1905. By the time the club was affected by the Irish Civil War, it had won eight county titles.[citation needed]
The club established a hurling section in 1903.[citation needed] Clane went on to win 16 hurling titles before 1922, including a significant comeback against Landenstown from seven points down in 1920. A split in 1922, possibly related to the civil war,[citation needed] led to the establishment of Mainham hurling club. In their most successful period, Clane had lost just two finals, to Maynooth on objection in 1913 and to Celbridge when some of their players were missing in 1921.[citation needed] They returned to senior ranks in the 1990s. The club were league champions in 2009.
Clane's minor hurling team won the Minor B league on 4 May 2012 after defeating Eire Og Choirracoill on a score of 2-15 to 2-05.
Clane also won the Kildare Junior Hurling Championship in 2013, beating Naas in the final.[citation needed]
Camogie
The camogie club was founded in 1931 when Bridie Ennis was listed as "one of the best players in the county".[citation needed] Clane won the county championship in 1939 shortly before the club lapsed and the best players joined Sallins. A Clane team won the 1953 league and championship, the 1962 senior league, but the club lapsed again 1966-1976. A team was revived in 1976 and won league and championship in 1977 wearing the green gym-slips of the local Scoil Mhuire. They won junior league and championship in 1980 but lapsed in 1983 when the best players joined Prosperous. Geraldine Dwyer and Marianne Johnson were selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century. Clane hosted the final of the 1993 Gael Linn Cup inter-provincial series.
Clane camogie won the Kildare Intermediate final on Sunday 30 September[when?] defeating Leixlip on a scoreline of 2-06 to 1-05.
The club's camogie section retained the Intermediate Championship in 2013 with a victory over Leixlip on a scoreline of 4-11 to 3-09.
In 2016, the minor camogie team won the Division 1 Minor Cup final with a score of 1-7 to 0-6 against Naas.[citation needed]
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