Easkey GAA

Easkey

Iascaigh
Founded:	1888
County:	Sligo
Nickname:	Sea Blues
Colours:	Blue and Yellow
Grounds:	Castletown, Easkey
Coordinates:	54°17′24″N8°58′44″W / 54.29°N 8.979°W / 54.29; -8.979
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Connacht champions Sligo champions Football: - - 5 Hurling: - - 7

Easkey is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in west County Sligo, including the principal village of Easkey and hinterlands of Rathlee, Killeenduff and Owenbeg. The club was founded in 1888.

Honours

Football

• Sligo Senior Football Championship (5): 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1966
• Sligo Intermediate Football Championship (6): 1982, 1987, 1990, 2010, 2015, ^[1] 2023 ^[2]
• Connacht Junior Club Football Championship (1): 2018 ^[3]
• Sligo Junior Football Championship (5): 1907, 1960, 1965, 1977, 2018 ^[4]
• Sligo Junior B Football Championship (1): 2000
• Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1) (7): 1947, 1951, 1952, 1967, 1969, 1994, 1998
• Sligo Intermediate Football League Division 3 (ex Div. 2) (1): 1981
• Sligo Junior Football League (Division 4) (1): 2015
• Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5) (1): 1977
• Kiernan Cup (1): 2007
• Benson Cup (1): 2011
• Sligo Under 20 Football Championship (3): 1995, 1997 (amalgamated with St. Farnan's), 2019 (amalgamated with Enniscrone)
• Sligo Minor Football Championship (3): 1931, 1980, 2016 (amalgamated with Enniscrone in 2016) ^[5]

Hurling

• Sligo Senior Hurling Championship (8): 1962, 1963, 2020, ^[6] 2021, ^[7] 2022, ^[8] 2023, ^[9] 2024, ^[10] , 2025 ^[11]
• Connacht Junior Club Hurling Championship (3) 2022, ^[12] 2023, ^[13] 2024, ^[14]
• Dermot Molloy Hurling League (3): 2018, 2019, 2022
• Sligo Minor Hurling Championship (6): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable players

• Dessie Sloyan
• Seán Calleary
• Noel McGuire - Captained Sligo to Connacht Championship win in 2007 ^[15]
• Eugene Mullen, played for Sligo in a Connacht final, captained Easkey to the 2018 Connacht Junior Club Football Championship ^[16]
• Andrew Kilcullen GAA/GPA Hurling Champions 15: 2022

References

1. "Superb Easkey annihilate neighbours to secure senior football next year". Irish Independent. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
2. "Andrew Kilcullen delighted-as Easkey win the Sligo intermediate football championship". Sligo Champion. 26 October 2023.
3. "Connacht club JFC final: McKenna the Easkey hero - HoganStand". hoganstand.com. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
4. "Easkey Win Dramatic Connacht Junior Final - Connacht GAA" . Retrieved 4 October 2023.
5. "McHugh inspires his side to Championship glory". Independent.ie. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2023.
6. "Easkey end long drought to claim Sligo hurling title". RTÉ. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
7. "Easkey retain Sligo SHC with 20-point hammering of Naomh Eoin". independent. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
8. "Classy Kilcullen stars as Easkey cruise to Sligo three-in-a-row". independent. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
9. "Andy Kilcullen hits 15 points as Easkey win fourth Sligo senior hurling championship in a row". Sligo Champion. 2 October 2023.
10. "Easkey make it five Sligo SHC titles in a row after battling win over Naomh Eoin". Sligo Champion. 26 October 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
11. "Andy Kilcullen-inspired Easkey blitz Naomh Eoin at the death to claim sixth consecutive Sligo SHC crown". www.independent.ie. 19 October 2025. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
12. "West Sligo's Easkey win club's first ever Provincial hurling title". independent. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
13. "Sligo's Easkey defeat Ballinasloe to retain Connacht Junior hurling title". Independent.ie. 25 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
14. "Easkey hurlers complete Connacht three-in-a-row". OceanFM.ie. 25 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2024.
15. "'I just turned 40 before Christmas' - the Connacht winning captain set for an All-Ireland club final". The42. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
16. "Easkey hero Mullen hangs up his boots". 17 March 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.