Dicksboro GAA
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Dicksboro is a Gaelic Athletic Association
club located in Kilkenny
, Ireland
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Dicksboro entered a team in the junior championship of 1910. This they duly won and the following year the club entered the senior championship where it was to remain until 1960, winning three senior titles- 1923, 1926 and 1950 - during that period. In 1961, Dicksboro failed to field or enter a team and this remained the case until 1969 when the club was reformed and a minor team was entered. The following year a junior team took the field and from that date the club has blossomed into what it is today.
In 1980, 150 members attended a meeting in the Metropole Hotel at which the decision was taken to acquire club grounds and premises. A development committee was set up and following several years of intense fund-raising Dicksboro officially opened its new premises in Palmerstown in June 1990.
* After moving to Dublin Power
played for the Dublin senior hurling team.
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...
club located in Kilkenny
Kilkenny
Kilkenny is a city and is the county town of the eponymous County Kilkenny in Ireland. It is situated on both banks of the River Nore in the province of Leinster, in the south-east of Ireland...
, Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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History
Dicksboro GAA Club, founded in 1909, takes its name from a townsland about one mile west of the city on the Ballycallan road. According to Paddy O' Donoghue, a founder member of the club, lads and lassies from the Walkin Street known as the Kilns used to travel out to Dicksboro on Sunday evenings for a dance with young people from the Ballycallan / Kilmanagh area. While waiting for the dance to begin, a game of hurling would be played. After a number of months, somebody suggested forming and affiliating a hurling club consisting of regular attenders at the informal gatherings. This was enthusiastically received and at a meeting arranged in Lennons, the only house in the townsland, the new hurling club was formed. The decision was taken to name the club after the area and the Dicksboro Club was born.Dicksboro entered a team in the junior championship of 1910. This they duly won and the following year the club entered the senior championship where it was to remain until 1960, winning three senior titles- 1923, 1926 and 1950 - during that period. In 1961, Dicksboro failed to field or enter a team and this remained the case until 1969 when the club was reformed and a minor team was entered. The following year a junior team took the field and from that date the club has blossomed into what it is today.
In 1980, 150 members attended a meeting in the Metropole Hotel at which the decision was taken to acquire club grounds and premises. A development committee was set up and following several years of intense fund-raising Dicksboro officially opened its new premises in Palmerstown in June 1990.
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipAll-Ireland Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipThe All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship is an annual hurling tournament played between hundreds of senior hurling clubs in Ireland. The Tommy Moore Cup is awarded to the winners. The current champions are Clarinbridge...
s:- 1939,1947
- Leinster Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipLeinster Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipThe Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship is an annual Hurling tournament played between the winners of the senior club hurling championships of the counties in Leinster. The current holders of the Leinster title are Ballyhale Shamrocks from Kilkenny. The first Leinster senior club hurling...
s:- 1939,1940,1945,1946,1947
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championships: 4
- 1923, 1926, 1950, 1993
- Kilkenny Under-21 Hurling Championships:
- 1986,1991,1992,2008,2009
- Kilkenny Minor Hurling Championships:
- 1951,1952,1953,1969,1973,1990, 2006,2009,2010
- Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipLeinster Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipFor the senior hurling equivalent see: Leinster Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipThe Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship is an annual Hurling tournament played between the hundreds of Intermediate hurling clubs in Leinster...
s: 2- 2005, 2010
- All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipAll-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipThe All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship is a hurling competition between the winners of the intermediate grade championship in the strong hurling counties in Ireland. The winners of the senior county championship in weaker counties also compete for this championship.This competition...
s:1- 2006
Famous Hurlers
| Player | Era | Club titles | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-Ireland | Leinster | County | ||
| Matty Power Matty Power Matty Power was a famous Irish sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Dicksboro and Garda. Power was also a member of the Kilkenny and Dublin senior inter-county team in the 1920s and 1930s. He is regarded as one of Kilkenny’s greatest-ever... |
1920s-1930s | 1922, 1928*, 1929*, 1933, 1935 | 1922, 1923, 1927*, 1928*, 1930*, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936 | |
| Paddy Grace Paddy Grace Paddy Grace was a famous Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Dicksboro and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1939 until 1950.-Club:... |
1930s-1950s | 1939, 1947 | 1939, 1940, 1945, 1946, 1947 | |
| Dan Kennedy Dan Kennedy (hurler) Dan Kennedy was an Irish sportsman. He is best known as a hurler for several teams Thomastown, Dicksboro and Bennettsbridge clubs and was a member of the Kilkenny senior inter-county team in the 1940s and 1950s. Dan Kennedy captained Kilkenny in 1947.-Club:Kennedy first played hurling with his... |
1930s-1950s | 1947 | 1945, 1946, 1947, 1950 | 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956 |
| Michael Walsh Michael Walsh (Kilkenny hurler) Michael Walsh is a former Irish sportsperson. He was the goalkeeper on the Kilkenny senior hurling team from 1991 until 1996.-Club:... |
1980s-1990s | 1986, 1993 | 1991, 1992, 1993 | 1993 |
| Christy Walsh Christy Walsh (hurler) Christy Walsh was a hurler who played with Kerry and Kilmoyley, he also played football with Ardfert. He also played with Kilkenny side Dicksboro. He scored a goal in Kerry's 1993 Munster Hurling Championship win over Waterford. He won County Championships with Kilmoyley in 2001, 2002, 2003 and in... |
1990s | |||
Matty Power
Matty Power was a famous Irish sportsperson. He played hurling at various times with his local clubs Dicksboro and Garda. Power was also a member of the Kilkenny and Dublin senior inter-county team in the 1920s and 1930s. He is regarded as one of Kilkenny’s greatest-ever...
played for the Dublin senior hurling team.
See also
- Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship
- Kilkenny Senior Football Championship
- Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipLeinster Intermediate Club Hurling ChampionshipFor the senior hurling equivalent see: Leinster Senior Club Hurling ChampionshipThe Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship is an annual Hurling tournament played between the hundreds of Intermediate hurling clubs in Leinster...