Portroe GAA is a 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...

 gaelic football

Gaelic football

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

 and 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...

 club located in the village

Village

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 of Portroe

Portroe

Portroe is a village in North Tipperary, Ireland. The village is located on the R494 regional road about from the eastern shore of Lough Derg...

, eight miles outside Nenagh

Nenagh

Nenagh is the county town of North Tipperary in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of North Tipperary and in 2011 it had a recorded population of 7,995. It is a civil parish in the historical barony of Ormond Lower...

 in North County Tipperary

County Tipperary

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, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The club is affiliated with the North Division of Tipperary GAA

Tipperary GAA

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History

Portroe is in the center of a traditional slate quarrying district of Northwest Tipperary that sent many emigrants to the Vermont

Vermont

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 USA slate belt in the 19th century, where to this day their descendents continue to receive honours in American football, basketball, baseball, soccer, athletics and distance running. The local school side being the Fair Haven "Slaters" Many other natives of this area emigrated to Australia

Australia

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2006 North Tipperary U 12 B Football Champions

Justin Conroy-Selector, Ian O'Donnell , Stephen Flynn, Joey Knight, Nigel Flood , Niall Gleeson, Shane Ryan, Conor Leo, Shane Cody, Michael Malone, Sean Nightingale, Ciaran Quilligan, Padraig Hickey-Selector, Michael Quilligan, Andrew Duggan, Conor Byrne, Greg O'Brien, Kevin O'Halloran, Jack Keating-Captain, Michael O'Connor, Corm Keating, Ciaran O'Donnell, Robert Byrne, David Lumbroso, Corey Mulrooney, John Riggs-Miller, Michael Donnellan-Manager

2006 Tipperary Hurling Champions U 16 B

Dinny Quinn-Selector, Sean McKennedy, Darragh McLoughlin, Cormac Shouldice, Adrian Donovan, Thomas Knox, Adrian Lewis, Mark Gennery, Andrew McCloskey, James Ryan, Michael Dillon, Paudy Hanley, John Sheedy, Noel O'Halloran-Selector, Adrian O'Halloran, Barry O'Sullivan, Cathal O'Brien, Stephen Kennedy, Michael Sheedy-Captain, Fionan Lawlor, Shane O'Brien, Brian Molamphy, Christopher Riordan, Joe Sexton-Manager
This club always have to live in the shandow of neighbours Burgess.