O'Dempseys Gaelic Athletic Association

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 is a gaelic football

Gaelic football

Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

 club in Killenard, County Laois

County Laois

County Laois is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It was formerly known as Queen's County until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The county's name was formerly spelt as Laoighis and Leix. Laois County Council...

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The club was founded in 1951, won the Laois Junior Football Championship title in that same year and followed up by winning the Laois Intermediate Football Championship

Laois Intermediate Football Championship

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the second grade Laois Clubs. The winners of the Laois Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to...

 title the following year.

O'Dempseys went on to win two Laois Senior Football Championship titles in 1963 and 1980.

Locally well-known county players that have played for the club include Jack Kenna

Jack Kenna

Jack Kenna was a gaelic football player from County Laois in Ireland. He was born in Kilmullen.He played for many years on the Laois GAA senior football team in the forwards and was widely regarded as one of the outstanding players in Ireland of the 1950s...

, Mick Aherne

Mick Aherne

Mick Aherne was a gaelic football and hurling player from County Laois in Ireland.He played for many years on the Laois senior football and hurling teams in the defence....

, Leo Turley

Leo Turley

Leo Turley is a former gaelic football player from County Laois in Ireland.-Playing career:Leo played for the Laois senior football team from the late 1980s until the 1990s primarily as a forward...

, and current star Peter O'Leary

Peter O'Leary (gaelic football)

Peter O'Leary is a Gaelic football player from Laois in Ireland.In 2003 was part of the Laois team that won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship title for the first time since 1997....

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Pride and passion are symbolised in the club's lion which is placed on the club jersey.

O'Dempseys GAA club grounds are located at the Old Pound, near Ballybrittas

Ballybrittas

Ballybrittas is a small village in the northeast of County Laois, Ireland situated on the R445 about 5 km SE of Monasterevin, County Kildare. Formerly on the N7 Dublin - Limerick road, the village is now bypassed by the M7 motorway. Ballybrittas is the current County Laois East Division Tidy...

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