St Michael's Gaelic Football Club is a Gaelic football club in Cork City, Ireland. The club was formed in 1951 after a discussion in The Leaping Salmon Public House in Blackrock near Cork. At that time some of the Blackrockhurlers played football with different city teams and it was decided to enter a football team from Blackrock, thus keeping the players together. A formal meeting was held and St Michael's Gaelic Football Club was established.
St Michael's first match was against Crosshaven, with Jimmy Furlong as captain. The club's first success was in 1956 when St Michael's took their first Cork Junior Football Championship title, and as there was no Intermediate Championship or League the club took the decision to go Senior in 1957. The club failed to win a Senior County Title in 1976, 1977, and 1978, but competed in finals during these years against St Finbarr's and Nemo Rangers, and won two Kelleher Shield Titles. Eventually the decision was made to drop down to Intermediate level.
1964 and 1965 saw the first honours to the younger members of the club with Minor titles in the county championships, and the best result at this level was in 1974 when the club won city and county league and championships.[citation needed]
St Michael's underage section began in the 1960s, led by Eamonn O'Donoghue with assistance from the chair of this age group, Bernard Hurley.[citation needed]
^"At last some silverware for St. Michael's". Irish Examiner. 6 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
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Official St Michael's Gaelic Football Club website
December 01, 2023
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