St Fintans Hospital GAA was a 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...

 gaelic football

Gaelic football

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 club in County Laois

County Laois

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, Ireland

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The club was founded in the late 1940s by staff members at St Fintans Hospital in Portlaoise.

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship

Laois Intermediate Football Championship

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the second grade Laois Clubs. The winners of the Laois Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship and in turn, go on to...

 was won on three occasions (1951, 1960 and 1970) and the Laois Junior Football Championship was also won on three occasions (1950, 1959 and 1964).

The club faded out of existence in the late 1970s after winning the Laois Junior "B" Football Championship in 1975.