Coill Dubh GAA
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Coill Dubh is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA)
club in County Kildare
, Ireland
, winner of eight senior hurling championships. Three Coill Dubh players, Seamus Malone, Tony Carew and Tommy Carew were chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. The club played in every county final between 1990 and 2005 with the exception of 1992. Colm Byrne was selected on the Leinster hurling squad in 1997.
village
built in Ireland and the only one on a green field site, and shortly after construction the GAA club was established in 1957 by Tom Murtagh from Longford and Vinny O’Rourke from Leitrim. The club almost went out of existence in the early 1980s but came to dominate hurling in Kildare in the 1990s. From 1990 to 2005 the club contest the senior hurling final on every occasion bar 1992.
In 1993 they won an All Ireland under-16 competition, beating Offaly’s Kilcormac-Killoughey in the final.
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Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
club in County Kildare
County Kildare
County Kildare is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Mid-East Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county...
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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, winner of eight senior hurling championships. Three Coill Dubh players, Seamus Malone, Tony Carew and Tommy Carew were chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. The club played in every county final between 1990 and 2005 with the exception of 1992. Colm Byrne was selected on the Leinster hurling squad in 1997.
History
Timahoe participated in the reorganization of 1894. Coill Dubh was the largest Bord na MonaBord na Móna
Bord na Móna , abbreviated BNM, is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946. The company is responsible for the mechanised harvesting of peat, primarily in the Midlands of Ireland...
village
Village
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built in Ireland and the only one on a green field site, and shortly after construction the GAA club was established in 1957 by Tom Murtagh from Longford and Vinny O’Rourke from Leitrim. The club almost went out of existence in the early 1980s but came to dominate hurling in Kildare in the 1990s. From 1990 to 2005 the club contest the senior hurling final on every occasion bar 1992.
In 1993 they won an All Ireland under-16 competition, beating Offaly’s Kilcormac-Killoughey in the final.
Gaelic Football
The Gaelic football wing of the club lasted very few years. Players now play with St. Kevin'sSt Kevin's GAA
St Kevin’s is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the Kildare GAA based in Staplestown in North County Kildare, Ireland.-History:Staplestown Lord Edward Fitzgeralds affiliated in 1888 and were heavily beaten in their first two matches, 6-12 to nil by Rathcoffey and 7-12 to nil by Sallins..The...
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Hurling
The first championship was won by the under-15s in 1961, led by Tony and Tommy Carew and Willie Percival. Morris Dee, Richie Hayden, Larry Kelly and Tony Carew, who featured on the team that won the Junior Hurling championship in 1968, were on the team that won its first senior hurling championship 19 years later.Honours
- Senior H Champions 1987, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003.
- Senior H Finalists 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007
- Junior H Champions 1968.