Fintona Pearses GAC

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Fintona Pearses GAC
Fionntamhnach Na Piarsaigh CLG
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Founded:1917
County: Tyrone
Nickname:The Pearses
Colours:Green and White
Grounds:St Lawrence's Park
Coordinates: 54°29′34.86″N7°19′43.09″W / 54.4930167°N 7.3286361°W / 54.4930167; -7.3286361
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Fintona Pearses (Irish : Fionntamhnach Na Piarsaigh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a member of the Tyrone GAA county board [1] and is named after the Irish poet and revolutionary, Patrick Pearse.

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The club primarily concentrates on Gaelic football for both men & women, with boys hurling teams fielded at youth level. Its home venue is called St Lawrence's Park, located just outside the village on the Tattymoyle Road. [2]

As of 2024, the senior Gaelic football team competes in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football League as well as the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship.

History

Fintona Pearses was founded in September 1916 and despite some stop-starts in the 1920s, the club has been continuously active since 1932. At the time of founding there was already a club in the village, Fintona Davitts , which had been in existence since 1907 and the two sides met each other in competition twice in 1917. The Davitts club however went out of existence shortly afterwards. The club won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship in 1938, defeating Cookstown in the final. The last appearance in the final was in 1979 when they lost out to Carrickmore.

A Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship title was claimed in 1978 defeating Killyclogher in the final and the Tyrone Junior Football Championship title in 1975 after beating Gortin in the decider.

In 2023 the senior men won the Junior championship, defeating neighboring parish Drumragh by a point after extra time, bridging a 45 year gap from their last championship win and meaning that they will play in the Intermediate league and championship for the first time since 2008. Subsequent to the championship win they represented Tyrone in the Ulster Junior championship, a first foray into Ulster football for the club, after wins against Ballyhegan (Armagh) and Drumaness (Down) , they were eliminated at the semi final stage by Blackhill(Monaghan). The hard work being done at youth football was rewarded in 2023 when the minor team won the grade 2 minor championship beating a gortin/Glennelly amalgamation, bridging a ten year gap from the last time the club had won silverwear at youth level.

The club has the distinction of being the only one in Tyrone to have won the Senior, Intermediate, Junior, and all three Reserve Football Championships in its existence.

Ladies Football

A separate Ladies Gaelic Football club of the same name was founded in 1996 that first competed in Tyrone competitions in 1997. In 2022 a membership vote consisting separately of the GAA & LGFA clubs both approved a merger of the two clubs into becoming one club under the Fintona Pearses GAA Club banner.

Camogie

Fintona was also home to the first camogie club in Tyrone, called Fintona Rose Kavanaghs which was founded around the same time as Fintona Davitts.

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References

  1. "Fintona Pearses - Tyrone GAA". tyronegaa.ie. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. "Fintona Pearses GAA Grounds - Google Maps". maps.google.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2021.