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Clane GAA Club - Conneff Park, Home of Clane Hurling, Football and Camogie - Kildare, Leinster, Ireland. - Clanegaa.ie
Description
An Athletic/Sports Day held in Clane on 12th June 1884 unearthed a future Irish and World Champion runner, Tommy Conneff. Equally notable it led to the formation of Clane Gaelic Football Club (G.F.C) in Spring 1887. The club was originally known as William O’ Brien’s. The Club’s first chairperson was Dr. O’ Connor M.D with James Kelly the first Secretary. The club won its first senior football championship in 1887, with the actual final played in 1888. Further football championships followed in 1890, ’92, ’95, ’97, 1901, ’02, ’03 and 1916. There was a 67 year gap to our next championship win in 1967 with further championships in ’75, ’80, ’84 (Centenary Year), ’91, ’92, ’95, and ’97.
Clane also has a proud hurling tradition having won the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship nine times in a row between 1903 and 1911. The Championship was abandoned by the County Board in 1912. Clane won again in 1913 but lost on an objection, but won again in 1914, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’19 and ’22. Junior hurling titles were won in 1915 and 1983.
Clane Famous Players from the 1903 All-Ireland V Kerry (After 3 Matches) Larry “Hussy” Cribbin, William Merriman, Ned Kennedy, Joe Rafferty (Capt.), Jim Wright, Bill Bracken, William “Steel” Losty, Johnny Dunne.
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