Trumera GAA is 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...

 hurling

Hurling

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 and gaelic football

Gaelic football

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 club in County Laois

County Laois

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, Ireland

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The present Trumera GAA Club was formed at a meeting in Trumera National School in winter 1968.

An earlier version of Trumera was set up at a gathering of interested people in the 1920s. The team reached a county Junior semi-final against Mountmellick

Mountmellick GAA

Mountmellick GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football and hurling club in the town of Mountmellick in County Laois, Ireland.In 2006, Mountmellick bridged a 38 year gap to win the Laois Intermediate Football Championship for just the second time ever, beating Annanough in the...

 in 1927. They lost that game and the team faded out soon afterwards.

All through the seventies and eighties the club competed in the Laois Junior Hurling Championship without any great success. The nineties brought a change of fortune with the club reaching its first league

Laois All-County Football League

The Laois All-County Football League is a Gaelic football competition run annually by Laois GAA as a secondary competition to the local championships....

 final in 1990.

Since then the club has won Junior C, Junior B, Junior A ,and in 2004 the Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship

Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship

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

 and also reached the Leinster junior club hurling final narrowly losing out to Galmoy.the club competed in the Laois Senior Hurling Championship for 2 years 2005-2006 and had some good results before losing out to Clonad in the relegation final of 2006.

In 2004 Trumera won the Laois Junior "C" Football Championship and also reached the Division 5 ACFL

Laois All-County Football League

The Laois All-County Football League is a Gaelic football competition run annually by Laois GAA as a secondary competition to the local championships....

Final.