St. Martin's GAA (Wexford)
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Founded: | 1932 | ||||||||
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County: | Wexford | ||||||||
Colours: | Maroon and white | ||||||||
Grounds: | Piercestown | ||||||||
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St. Martin's GAA club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Murrintown in the Parish of Piercestown, County Wexford, Ireland. The club was founded in 1932 and fields teams in both hurling and Gaelic football. The women's arm of the club fields teams in both camogie and ladies' gaelic football.
Contents
1 History
2 Honours
3 Notable players
4 References
5 External links
History
The club was founded in 1932 although an earlier club bearing that name, and playing in black in white, was established in Murrintown in 1912. It lost the county junior football final of 1913 and then, in 1914, it changed jerseys to green and yellow and its name to Michael Dwyers. The current club was established at a meeting in Piercestown National School in 1932. The club experienced intermittent success in its first 70 years and had to partner on occasion with other clubs such as St. Mary’s of Rosslare and Glynn-Barntown at underage and under 21 levels up to the mid 1980s.
After a peripatetic existence, the club secured a permanent home in 1962 when part of the Johnstown Castle Estate was made available. An Act of the Oireachtas in 1980 was passed to allow the formal sale of the ground to the Club. Between 1998 and 2004, an additional 10 acres was purchased from Johnstown Castle which facilitated the development of two additional pitches and a hurling wall.
The camogie wing of the club was revived in 1983 while the ladies’ football club started in 2002. 2017 was a particularly significant year for both codes as the county senior camogie title was won for the first time and the ladies’ footballers won the intermediate championship to gain promotion to senior ranks.
Honours
Wexford Senior Hurling Championship: (3) 1999, 2008, 2017[1]
Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship (2): 1964, 1977
Wexford Intermediate Football Championship (4): 1982, 1994, 2006, 2011
Wexford Senior Football Championship (1): 2013[2]
Wexford Junior Hurling Championship (3): 1948, 1963, 2002
Wexford Junior Football Championship (3): 1938, 1957, 2017
Wexford Minor Hurling Championship (4): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Wexford Minor Football Championship (2): 2015, 2016
Wexford Under-21 Hurling Championship: (3) 2014, 2016, 2017
Wexford Under-21 Football Championship: (3) 2007, 2009, 2017
Wexford Senior Camogie Championship (1): 2017
Wexford Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship (1): 2017
Notable players
- Diarmuid Lyng
- Rory McCarthy
- George O'Connor
- Eoin Quigley
- Mags Darcy
References
^ "St Martin's upset the formbook in Wexford decider". Irish Examiner. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
^ "Martin's finally taste success". Irish Examiner. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
External links
- St. Martin's GAA site
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