St Brigid's GAA (Dublin)

St Brigid's GAA Club (Irish: Cumann Naomh Bríd) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland which serves Castleknock, Clonsilla, Blanchardstown and Corduff. Its main grounds are at Russell Park, and it also has grounds in Castleknock at Beech Park and College Fort. The club supports 70 teams, from nursery level (four- to seven-year-olds) to adults, in hurling, football, camogie, women's football, handball and badminton.

St Brigid's GAA Club

Cumann Naomh Bríd
Founded:	1932
County:	Dublin
Nickname:	The Redmen
Colours:	Red and white
Grounds:	Russell Park
Coordinates:	53°22′39.09″N 6°21′04.55″W / 53.3775250°N 6.3512639°W / 53.3775250; -6.3512639
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster champions Dublin champions Football: 0 1 2

In 2003, St Brigid's GAA won their first Dublin Senior Football Championship and Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The club won their second Dublin Senior Football Championship in 2011, but lost the year's Leinster Final to Garrycastle in an injury-time free goal.

St Brigid's senior hurlers lost the 2003 Senior A Hurling final to Craobh Chiarán and the 2019 final to Cuala. The team lost in the semi-finals in 2011 and 2013. St Brigid's senior hurlers won the Senior B and AHL 2 League titles in 2010 and 2014. The club has rivalries with the Castleknock GAA and Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh GAA clubs.^[1] Dual All Ireland Handball Senior Singles champion Eoin Kennedy is a club member.^[2]

In 2007, Justin McNulty was manager. In 2013, Tony McEntee was appointed as manager of the St Brigid's senior football team, succeeding Gerry McEntee and Mark Byrne.^[3]

Jack Chambers, who served as Minister for Sport from 2020, is a member of the club.^[4]

Honours

• 1958: Dublin Intermediate Football Championship
• 1979: Dublin Junior Hurling League Division 2 champions
• 1976: Dublin Intermediate Hurling League and Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship
• 1980: Dublin Intermediate Football champions
• 1986: Dublin Intermediate A Camogie champions
• 1988: Loving Cup Intermediate Football and Murphy Cup winners
• 1990: Dublin Under-16 Football and Hurling League champions
• 1991: Dublin Under-15 Football championship
• 1993: Dublin Minor Football Premier League champions
• 1994: Dublin Under-16 and Minor Football Premier League champions
• 1995: Dublin Under-16 and Minor Football champions
• 1996: Dublin Under-15, Ladies Under-14 and Under-18 champions and Camogie Under-14 Feile winners
• 1997: World, All-Ireland and Leinster handball champions, Dublin Junior 5 Football League Sheridan Cup, Dublin Under-16 Football Championship, Dublin Minor B Football Championship, Dublin Ladies Football Under-16 and Under-18 Championships, Dublin Under-15 Hurling Shield and Dublin Under-10/11/12/12/14 football and hurling league champions
• 1998: Dublin Under-11 League Division 1, St. Vincent de Paul Senior Football League, and Dublin Minor B Football Shield champions
• 1999: Dublin Under-12 League Division 1 champions, Dublin Under 21 Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 champions, Dublin Under 15-B Hurling Championship, Dublin Intermediate Camogie Championship, Under-16 South/West Region Football Championship, Dublin Minor Ladies Football Championship
• 2000: Dublin Under-13 League Division 1 champions, Dublin Junior Hurling Championship, Dublin Ladies Football Minor Championship, Ladies Football Under-16 Championship
• 2001: Dublin Under-14 League Division 1, Under-14 Dublin Feile Division 1, and Under-14 All-Ireland Feile Division 1 champions
• 2002: Dublin Under-12 Football Championship, Dublin Under 15 Juvenile Hurling Championship, and Dublin Under-16 A and B League champions
• 2003: Dublin Minor Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Football Championship, Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, Dublin AFL Division 8 champions, Dublin Junior C Football Championship, Dublin Junior C Football Championship
• 2004: Dublin Under-11 and Under-12 Ladies Football champions and Dublin Junior 3 Football League title
• 2005: Ladies Dublin Intermediate Championship, Dublin Junior Hurling Championship, Dublin Intermediate Football Championship, Dublin Minor Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 Champions
• 2006: Dublin Junior B Football Championship, Stacey Cup and Dublin AFL Division 6 winners
• 2007: Dublin AFL Division 5 winners
• 2008: Dublin Junior A Hurling Championship
• 2009: Barney McGarrell Perpetual Cup winners, Dublin and Leinster Ladies Football Champions
• 2010: Dublin Junior A Football Championship, Dublin Senior Football League Division 2 champions, Dublin Intermediate Football Championship, Dublin Minor C Hurling Championship
• 2011: Dublin Minor B Hurling Championship, Dublin Senior Football Championship
• 2012: Dublin Senior 2 and Senior 7 Camogie championships
• 2013: Dublin AHL 5 League Hurling and Dublin Senior Football League Division 1 champions
• 2014: Dublin Minor B hurling and football champions

Notable players

Senior inter-county men's footballers

• Dublin
  • Peadar Andrews
  • Kevin Bonner
  • Paddy Andrews
  • Barry Cahill
  • Declan Lally
  • Sean Murray
  • Graham Norton
  • Shane Supple
  • Philip Ryan
• Laois: John O'Loughlin
• Leitrim: Emlyn Mulligan^[5]

Senior inter-county hurlers

• Dublin
  • Alan Nolan
  • Daire Plunkett
  • Andrew Dunphy
  • Cian O'Sullivan

Handball players

Dublin: Eoin Kennedy

Senior inter-county ladies' footballers

Dublin: Noëlle Healy

Others

Sarah Hawkshaw: Ireland women's national field hockey team

References

1. Meagher, John (31 August 2019). "Lattes and lineballs: How the GAA conquered the Dublin suburbs". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
2. Fitzpatrick, Paul (7 September 2019). "A final serve for an iconic venue in Irish handball". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
3. "Tony McEntee appointed as St Brigid's (Dublin) football manager". The42.ie. 13 December 2013.
4. "Maria Kinsella hails 'a landmark day across women's sport'". RTÉ. 10 May 2021.
5. "Mulligan transfers to Sligo club". Irish Independent. 21 January 2021.

External links

• St Brigids GAA Club
• Road to 2003 Leinster Final