Fermanagh GAA

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Fermanagh GAA
Fermanagh GAA crest.svg
Irish:Fear Manach
Nickname(s):The Ernesiders
Province:Ulster
Dominant sport: Gaelic football
Ground(s): Brewster Park, Enniskillen
County colours:  Green   White
County teams
NFL:Division 3
NHL:Division 3A
Football Championship: Tailteann Cup
Hurling Championship: Nicky Rackard Cup
Ladies' Gaelic football: Brendan Martin Cup

The Fermanagh County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish : Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Fear Manach) or Fermanagh GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for the administration of Gaelic games in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

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The county football team reached an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final replay in 2004, its best performance in the competition.

Football

Clubs

Clubs contest the Fermanagh Senior Football Championship.

Lisnaskea's win against St James' in the 2010–11 All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship final meant it was the first Fermanagh GAA club to win an All-Ireland title. [1]

Fermanagh (22) has the second smallest number of clubs of any county in Ireland, behind Longford (21). 21 of the 22 offer football, while Lisbellaw St Patrick's offers hurling.

Fermanagh football clubs
ClubAs GaeligeColoursDathanna
Aghadrumsee Átha Droim SíBlack and WhiteDubh agus Bán
BelcooBéal CúLight Blue and NavyGorm agus Cabhlach
Belnaleck Béal na LeiceRed and WhiteDearg agus Bán
BrookeboroughAchadh LunRed and BlackDearg agus Dubh
CoaAn CuachBlack and GoldDubh agus Ór
Derrygonnelly Doire Ó gConailePurple and YellowCorcra agus Buí
DerrylinDoire Ó LoinnGreen, White and GoldGlas, Bán agus
Devenish DaibhinisBlue and WhiteGorm agus Bán
Ederney EadarnaighWhite and GreenBán agus Glas
Enniskillen Gaels Inis CeithleannBlue and YellowGorm agus Buí
Erne Gaels Gaeil na hÉirneYellow and BlackBuí agus Dubh
Irvinestown Na CearnaGreen and GoldGlas agus Ór
KinawleyCill NaileBlue and WhiteGorm agus Bán
KnocksNa CnoicOrange and WhiteOráiste agus Bán
Lisnaskea Lios na ScéitheRed and GreenDearg agus Glas
MaguiresbridgeDroichead Mhic UidhirRed and BlackDearg agus Dubh
Newtownbutler An Baile NuaRed and WhiteDearg agus Bán
Roslea Shamrocks Seamróga RosliathGreen and WhiteGlas agus Bán
St Patrick's (Donagh) Naomh PádraigWhite and RedBán agus Dearg
Teemore An Tigh MórGreen and WhiteGlas agus Bán
Tempo An tIompúMaroon and WhiteMarún agus Bán

County team

The county team has never won an Ulster Senior Football Championship (SFC) but has contested the final on six occasions: 1914, 1935, 1945, 1982, 2008 and 2018. [2] [3] [4] Fermanagh is the only team in its province to have never won an Ulster SFC.

In Charlie Mulgrew's first season in charge, the county team reached the 2003 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final after beating Meath [5] and Mayo in the qualifiers. The team went to a replayed 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship [6] semi-final, beating Meath, Cork [7] and Donegal [8] and most memorably of all Armagh, thanks to a late point by Tom Brewster, before losing to Mayo.

Hurling

Clubs contest the Fermanagh Senior Hurling Championship.

However, the competition has not been contested since 2013, with Fermanagh better known for providing the sport with the father of Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and featuring in a Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh quote about Ó hAilpín, as not being "a hurling stronghold". [9] [10]

Fermanagh hurling clubs
ClubAs GaeligeColoursDathanna
Lisbellaw Lios Béal ÁthaGreen and WhiteGlas agus Bán
Erne Gaels Gaeil na hÉirneYellow and BlackBuí agus Dubh

Fermanagh has the following achievements in hurling.

All-Irelands (4)

Provincials (1)


Leagues (3)

Ladies' football

Fermanagh has a ladies' football team.

Camogie

Having been established in the 1920s, Camogie was revived in Fermanagh by Father Tom Maguire in 1939 [11] around a base in Newtownbutler and they contested Ulster senior championship finals in the 1940s. Enniskillen contested the Féile na nGael camogie first division final in 1977 and Teemore won divisional honours in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion", [12] three new camogie clubs were to be established in Fermanagh and a county board formed by 2015. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Lisnaskea claim historic win". 14 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "Armagh Fermanagh". RTÉ. 20 July 2008.
  3. ↑ "USFC: Armagh make it 7 out of 10". Ulster GAA. 28 July 2008.
  4. ↑ "Energetic Donegal end Fermanagh's Ulster title dream". RTÉ. 24 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Fermanagh roast Meath in football qualifier". RTÉ. 6 July 2003.
  6. ↑ "Tipperary footballers withdraw from team". RTÉ. 10 June 2004.
  7. ↑ "Brilliant Fermanagh blitz Cork in second half". RTÉ. 17 July 2004.
  8. ↑ "Fermanagh through after extra time". RTÉ. 24 July 2004.
  9. ↑ McCoy, Niall (21 August 2023). "Green shoots emerging in barren Fermanagh hurling landscape". RTÉ. Fermanagh may not be a hurling stronghold, as Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh famously told us…
  10. ↑ "Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh's most memorable lines of commentary". RTÉ. 25 June 2024.
  11. ↑ Irish Independent (via Irish Newspaper Archives) (subscription required) 2 May 1939
  12. ↑ "Final goal for camogie". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. 29 March 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
  13. ↑ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie Archived 1 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine , pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site Archived 16 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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