Laois Senior Hurling Championship | |
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Irish | Craobh Sinsir Iomáint Laoise |
Code | Hurling |
Founded | 1888 |
Region | Laois (GAA) |
Trophy | Bob O'Keefe |
No. of teams | 10 |
Title holders | Clough–Ballacolla (7th title) |
Most titles | Camross (27 titles) |
Sponsors | Laois Shopping Centre |
Official website | http://www.laoisgaa.ie |
The Laois Senior Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Laois GAA clubs. The Laois County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1888.
Clough–Ballacolla are the title holders, defeating Rathdowney–Errill by 2-22 to 0-22 in the 2024 final. [1]
The trophy presented to the winners is the Bob O'Keefe Cup.
The winners of the Laois Senior Championship qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship. They often do well there and Clough–Ballacolla were in the 2021 Leinster Final after winning the Laois Senior Hurling Championship. [2] The winners can, in turn, go on to play in the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
The 10 teams competing in the 2025 Laois Senior Hurling Championship are:
Club | Location | Championship titles | Last championship title |
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Abbeyleix | Abbeyleix | 8 | 1949 |
Ballinakill | Ballinakill | 0 | — |
Borris-in-Ossory–Kilcotton | Borris-in-Ossory | 1 | 2016 |
Camross | Coolrain | 27 | 2023 |
Castletown | Castletown | 8 | 2005 |
Clough–Ballacolla | Clough and Ballacolla | 7 | 2024 |
Portlaoise | Portlaoise | 11 | 2004 |
Rathdowney–Errill | Rathdowney and Errill | 6 | 2019 |
Rosenallis | Rosenallis | 0 | — |
The Harps | Cullohill and Durrow | 0 | — |
(r) = replay
# | Club | Wins | Years won |
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1 | Camross | 27 | 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2007, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2023 |
2 | Rathdowney | 18 | 1888, 1889, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1911, 1912, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941 |
3 | Clonad | 14 | 1930, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1950, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1970, 1992 |
4 | Portlaoise | 11 | 1928, 1943, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2004 |
5 | Kilcotton | 10 | 1904, 1905, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924, 1929 |
6 | Castletown | 8 | 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 |
Abbeyleix | 1927, 1932, 1934, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1949 | ||
7 | Clough–Ballacolla | 7 | 2009, 2011, 2015, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 |
8 | Rathdowney–Errill | 6 | 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2019 |
9 | Borris-in-Ossory | 5 | 1956, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1972 |
Ballygeehan | 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 | ||
10 | Clonaslee | 4 | 1890, 1891, 1910, 1975 |
11 | Cullohill | 2 | 1955, 1964 |
Errill | 1938, 1952 | ||
12 | Kyle | 1 | 1951 |
[Harristown | 1897 | ||
Mountrath | 1942 | ||
Borris-in-Ossory–Kilcotton | 2016 | ||
The most successful team of each decade, judged by number of Laois Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:
Top ten longest gaps between successive championship titles:
This competition has existed in various guises since 1995. [20] It was originally played as the Dick Palmer Cup up to 2009, then became a competition ancillary to the main championship. In the earlier years, clubs would qualify for the Senior B by not reaching a certain stage of the main competition.
Since 2010, it has been a proper Tier2 competition, with promotion/relegation to/from the Senior Hurling Championship and from 2015, it has been called the Senior A Hurling Championship.
Laois Senior A Hurling Championship | |
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Irish | Craobh Sinsir Iomáint Laoise |
Title holders | Rosenallis |
Sponsors | Laois Shopping Centre |
Year | Winner | Score | Opponent | Score |
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2012 | Clough–Ballacolla | 0-16 | Camross | 2-05 |
2013 | Abbeyleix | 4-12 | Ballyfin | 0-09note |
2014 | Ballinakill | 0-22 | St Fintan's, Mountrath | 1-12 |
2015 | Portlaoise | 1-14 | Clonaslee | 1-11 |
2016 | Castletown | 1–11 | Ballyfin Gaels | 0–13 |
2017 | Ballyfin Gaels | 0–15 | Colt | 0–12 |
2018 | Portlaoise | 1-13 | The Harps | 1-11 |
2019 | Rosenallis | 1-12 | The Harps | 1-11 |