The Randal Óg Gaelic Athletic Association

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 was founded in 1953,and is located in Ballinacarriga, County Cork

County Cork

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, Ireland

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, just outside Dunmanway

Dunmanway

Dunmanway is a town in County Cork, in the southwest of Ireland. It is the geographical centre of the region known as West Cork. It is probably best known as the birthplace of Sam Maguire, an Irish Protestant republican, for whom the trophy of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship is...

 in the South West of Cork

Metropolitan Cork

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. The club currently competes at Junior B in both hurling

Hurling

Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

 and Gaelic football

Gaelic football

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. A book entitled "Finding Fifteen, The History of Randal Og Hurling and Football Club" was published in 2007 to mark the fifieth anniversary of the founding of the club. The club combines with Dohenys

Dohenys

Dohenys is the Gaelic football and Hurling Club in the town of Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. It won its only Cork Senior Club Football Championship in 1897....

 at underage levels of competition. Randal Og is part of the Carbery

Carbery GAA

Carbery GAA are a divisional team from the south-west division of County Cork, Ireland, in ancient Carbery. They compete in the Cork Senior Football Championship. They competed in the Cork Senior Hurling Championship up to and including 2010. They did not enter a hurling team in 2011...

 division of Cork GAA.

History

The club was founded in 1953, and the club's first major success came in that year with the winning of the Junior B Football title. The club's under-age team was to the forefront in 1956 when they won the West Cork Schools Shields title, and this team was trained by Dennis Cotter NT who continued to foster and train the youth of the area until his retirement in 1982. The Junior B Football title was won again in 1958 with what is reputedly the best tem ever fielded by the club. In 1959 the club was unlucky to be defeated in the semi-final of the A grade championship. In 1966, the club entered a hurling team for the first time and since then both hurling and football have been played in the club. In 1973, the club recorded its first double victory, winning the West Cork Under-21 B Football and Hurling championships. In 1976, the Junior B football title was won once again.
In 1979, the Junior B hurling title was won for the first time. At the County Convention of Cork GAA in 1984, the cub successfully put forward a motion to set up a County Junior B Hurling and Football competition.

Honours

• Cork Junior B Hurling Championship
  Cork Junior B Hurling Championship
  The Cork Junior B Hurling Championship is a hurling competition played by Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Cork. This is the fourth and lowest tier of county hurling competitions organized by Cork. The competition is confined to clubs who play solely at this level. Thus the second and third...
  
  : Winner 1992, 2000 Runner-Up 1987, 2009
• Cork Junior B Football Championship
  Cork Junior B Football Championship
  The Cork Junior B Football Championship is a Gaelic football competition held annually between teams playing in the lowest grade possible in Cork, Ireland. The competition, organized by Cork, involves teams from all eight divisions in the county, Avondhu, Beara, Carbery, Carrigdhoun, Duhallow,...
  
  : Runners Up 1999
• Millennium Cup (Cork) Junior B Hurling Championship: 2000
• West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship: Winners 1979, 1987, 1991, 1992, 2000, 2010. Runner Up: 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 2009.
• West Cork Junior B Football Championship: Winners 1953, 1958, 1976, 1999, 2010. Runner Up 1966, 1985, 1986
• West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship: Winners 1973, 1990, 1997 Runners-Up: 1972, 1975, 1985, 1987, 2001
• West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship: Winners 1973 Runners-Up: 1972
• West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship: Winners 2000, 2003, 2011 Runners-Up: 2002
• West Cork Under-21 C Hurling Championship: Winners 2000, 2003, 2011 Runners-Up: 1996, 2010

External links

• Official Randal Óg Club website