Finuge GAA
Encyclopedia
Finuge is a Gaelic Athletic Association
club from Finuge
, County Kerry
, Ireland
. They currently compete in the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
. They also form part of the Feale Rangers
divisional team that play in the Kerry Senior Football Championship. Many of the players also play hurling
with Lixnaw
in the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. Being a very small club they have a proud history of supplying players to the Kerry Senior team and the Club has a a total of 14 Senior All-Ireland Football medals.
but were in the final in 2005, which they lost against Killarney Legion
and also in 2010 losing to Gneeveguilla.
in 2004 and 2002 and lost the finals of 2000 and 1998.
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 from Finuge
Finuge
Finuge is a village near Listowel in County Kerry, Ireland. Finuge is a traditional Irish crossroads village with a shop, a pub, Teach Siamsa and a G.A.A. pitch. Sheehan's Thatched House located at Finuge Cross is regarded as one of the oldest surviving authentic thatched houses in Ireland...
, County Kerry
County Kerry
Kerry means the "people of Ciar" which was the name of the pre-Gaelic tribe who lived in part of the present county. The legendary founder of the tribe was Ciar, son of Fergus mac Róich. In Old Irish "Ciar" meant black or dark brown, and the word continues in use in modern Irish as an adjective...
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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. They currently compete in the Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
This is a competition organized by Kerry GAA for clubs that are not good enough to play in the Kerry Senior Football Championship. The winners usually play Senior in the years after they win this competition. The winners also represent Kerry in the Munster Intermediate Club Football Championship....
. They also form part of the Feale Rangers
Feale Rangers
Feale Rangers is a North Kerry Divisional Gaelic football team in Kerry. The teams involved are Clounmacon, Duagh, Finuge, Gale Rangers, Listowel Emmets, Moyvane and St...
divisional team that play in the Kerry Senior Football Championship. Many of the players also play hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
with Lixnaw
Lixnaw GAA
Lixnaw are a Gaelic Athletic Association hurling club in north County Kerry, Ireland. They play in the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. The club is primarily concerned with the game of hurling but many of their players play football with Finuge. They have won 7 Kerry Senior Hurling...
in the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. Being a very small club they have a proud history of supplying players to the Kerry Senior team and the Club has a a total of 14 Senior All-Ireland Football medals.
Kerry Intermediate Football Championship
Finuge have never won the Kerry Intermediate Football ChampionshipKerry Intermediate Football Championship
This is a competition organized by Kerry GAA for clubs that are not good enough to play in the Kerry Senior Football Championship. The winners usually play Senior in the years after they win this competition. The winners also represent Kerry in the Munster Intermediate Club Football Championship....
but were in the final in 2005, which they lost against Killarney Legion
Killarney Legion
Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance Hall in High Street, Killarney .-Recent history:In the 2007 Kerry Senior Football...
and also in 2010 losing to Gneeveguilla.
Kerry Junior Football Championship
Finuge have won the Kerry Junior Football ChampionshipKerry Junior Football Championship
The Kerry junior championship is an annual Gaelic football competition played in County Kerry, Ireland by Gaelic Athletic Association clubs affiliated to Kerry GAA. It is a grade below Kerry Intermediate Football Championship and the winners move up to that grade the year after winning it...
in 2004 and 2002 and lost the finals of 2000 and 1998.
| Year | Winner | Opponent |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Finuge | Lispole |
| 2002 | Finuge | Castlegregory |
| 2000 | Gneeveguilla Gneeveguilla GAA Gneeveguilla are a Gaelic football team from east County Kerry, Ireland. They play in the Kerry Senior Football Championship, Kerry County Football League - Division 1, East Kerry Senior Football Championship. Ambrose O'Donovan was captain of the Kerry team which won the 1984 Centenary... |
Finuge |
| 1998 | Rathmore Rathmore GAA Rathmore is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Rathmore, County Kerry, Ireland. Together with 12 other football clubs they form the East Kerry Division of the GAA county of Kerry.Rathmore offer Hurling as well, but they do not play above intermediate... |
Finuge |
Inter County Players
- Paul GalvinPaul Galvin (footballer)Paul Galvin is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Finuge, his divisional side Feale Rangers and has been a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team since 2003. Galvin had the honour of being named as the 1000th All-Star.Galvin writes a weekly fashion column...
- Éamonn FitzmauriceÉamonn FitzmauriceÉamonn Fitzmaurice is a former inter-county Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland. He is the first Lixnaw man to play senior championship for Kerry. He is currently the manager of the Kerry U-21 team...
- Jimmy DeenihanJimmy Deenihan-Club:Deenihan had much success at club and divisional level with his local teams. At under-age level he won an under-14 North Kerry Championship with Finuge in 1963. Five years later in 1968 he won an under-16 North Kerry Championship with the famous Listowel Emmet's club...
- Enda Galvin
- Pat CorridanPat CorridanPat Corridan ia a Gaelic footballer from Finuge, County Kerry, in Ireland. Corrdian plays football for the Finuge GAA club, Feale Rangers divisional side and Kerry senior football team.-Club career:...
- Eamon Breen
- Maurice Corridan
- Mike Conway
- Mike Cronin
- Peter Linehan
- Aidan O' Connell
- Patrick Stackpoole
External links
- Official Fingue GAA Club website
- http://www.eastkerrygaa.com/
- http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/10/05/shead.htm
- http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/10/02/shead.htm
- http://archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2007/06/14/story24355.asp