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Sport: | Hurling | |
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Irish: | Lughbhadh An Lú | |
Nickname(s): | The Wee County | |
County board: | Louth GAA | |
Manager: | Trevor Hilliard | |
Captain: | Peter Fortune | |
Home venue(s): | St Brigid's Park/Darver Centre of Excellence | |
Recent competitive record | ||
Current All-Ireland status: | Nicky Rackard Cup (5th in 2024) | |
Last championship title: | 2022 Lory Meagher Cup | |
Current NHL Division: | 3A (5th in 2024; relegated to 3B) | |
Last league title: | 2021 Division 3B | |
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The Louth county hurling team represents Louth in hurling and is governed by Louth GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the Nicky Rackard Cup and the National Hurling League.
Louth's home grounds are St Brigid's Park and Darver Centre of Excellence. The current team manager is Knockbridge native and former county hurler Trevor Hilliard. [1]
The team has never won the Leinster Senior Championship, the All-Ireland Senior Championship or Division One of the National League.
As in most counties outside of the game's heartland of Munster and south Leinster, hurling has been less popular than Gaelic football in Louth. Currently, only three clubs complete in the Louth Senior Hurling Championship. They are Naomh Moninne, Knockbridge and St Fechin's.
At national level, the county's hurlers have won the former All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship twice and the Lory Meagher Cup three times. They have finished runners-up in the Nicky Rackard Cup competition on four occasions.
Aidan Kerrigan from Ballyoughter, County Wexford, has worked with the county hurling team. [2]
In 2024, the team was relegated from Division 3A of the National Hurling League to Division 3B. [3] They retained their status in the fourth-tier Nicky Rackard Cup by finishing fifth in the table. [4]
Year(s) | Name | Origin |
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1991–95 | Tony Melia | |
1995–98 | Patsy Mulholland | |
1998 | Selection committee | |
1999–2001 | John Kennedy | |
2002–04 | Joe Power | |
2005 | Pat Dunny | |
2005 | Selection committee | |
2006 | Kevin McDonnell | |
2007–09 | Pat Clancy | |
2010–11 | Paddy Kelly | |
2012–13 | Pat Clancy (2) | |
2014–16 | Diarmuid McCarthy | |
2017–18 | Philip O’Brien | |
2019–23 | Paul McCormack | |
2024– | Trevor Hilliard | Knockbridge |