Cavan GAA

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See also: Cavan Senior Club Football Championship or Cavan Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Cavan GAA
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Irish: An Cabhán
Province: Ulster
Nickname(s): The Breffni Men
County colours: Blue and white
Ground(s): Kingspan Breffni Park, Cavan
Dominant sport: Gaelic football
Competitions
NFL: Division 3
NHL: Division 4
Football Championship: Sam Maguire Cup
Hurling Championship: Lory Meagher Cup
Ladies' Gaelic football: Brendan Martin Cup
Camogie: Nancy Murray Cup
Standard kit

The Cavan County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael, Coiste an Chabháin) or Cavan GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Cavan. The county board is also responsible for the Cavan inter-county teams

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[edit] History

Cavan were the first county to organise in Ulster, dominating that championship and even competing in Leinster in 1895, lining out against Louth .

[edit] Gaelic football

Cavan (blue) in action against Queens University Belfast in the 2009 Dr. McKenna Cup

Cavan's five All Ireland titles were won in a 19-year period: they foiled Kerry's five-in-a-row bid with a last minute goal from Vincent McGovern at Breffni Park in 1933, beat Galway and Kildare in the 1933 and 1935 finals, won the famous 1947 final in the Polo Grounds in New York City, followed it up with an extraordinary win over Mayo in 1948 on the day of the "big wind" (Cavan led 3-2 to nil at half-time and won by 4-5 to 4-4) and beat Meath in a replay in 1952 through a free-taking display by Mick Higgins.

They became famous for their handpass, perfected by players such as Simon Deignan, and were involved in several handpass controversies. In 1928 Kildare's Paddy Loughlin almost certainly threw the winning goal into the Cavan net in the All-Ireland final. Cavan got revenge in 1935, but when Packie Boylan handpassed what would have been the winning point against Kerry in the All-Ireland final it was disallowed, and Cavan lost the replay, if not before the celebration bonfires were lit because the Radio Éireann commentator had not noticed the referee's decision.

Controversy was never far from Cavan in the early days of the Association.[citation needed] In 1917 they proposed a new province of Tara, comprising Meath, Louth, Westmeath, themselves and Longford, because of a series of disputes with the Ulster Council, and also tried to play in Connacht instead. They staged a famous rebellion before the 1930 Ulster final over the venue. Cavan official Barney Fay gathered up a rebel team, they lost the final, and Fay was suspended by his own County Board.

[edit] Famous players

[edit] All-Ireland Senior Football Championships:5

Year Squad Opponent
1933 W. Young, M. Denneny, J. Smith, W. Connolly, Tom O'Reilly (Mullahoran), P. Lynch, P. Phair, H. O'Reilly, T. Coyle, L. Blessing, P. Devlin, D. Morgan, J. Smallhorn, V. McGovern, M. Magee. Subs: T. O'Reilly, T. Crowe, P. Connolly Cavan:2-5
Galway:1-4
1935 W. Young,, W. Connolly, J. Smith, M. Denneny, T. Dolan, T. O'Reilly (Mullahoran), P. Phair, H. O'Reilly, T. O'Reilly, D. Morgan, P. Devlin, J. Smallhorn, P. Boylan, L. Blessing, M. Magee Cavan:3-6
Kildare:2-5
1947 V. Gannon, W. Doonan, B. O'Reilly, P. Smith, J.P. Wilson, J. J. O'Reilly, S. Deignan, P. J. Duke, P. Brady, A. Tighe, M. Higgins, C. McDyer, J. Stafford, P. Donohoe, T.P. O'Reilly. Cavan:2-11
Kerry:2-7
1948 J.D. Benson, W. Doonan, B. O'Reilly, P. Smith, P. J. Duke, J.J. O'Reilly, S. Deignan, P. Brady, V. Sherlock, A. Tighe, M. Higgins, J.J. Cassidy, J. Stafford, P. Donohoe, E. Carolan. Sub: O.R. McGovern Cavan:4-5
Mayo:4-4
1952
Draw		 S. Morris, J. McCabe, P. Brady, D. Maguire, P. Carolan, L. Maguire, B. O'Reilly, T. Hardy, V. Sherlock, S. Hetherton, M. Higgins, E. Carolan, J.J. Cassidy, A. Tighe, P. Fitzsimons Cavan:2-4
Meath:1-7
Replay S. Morris, J. McCabe, P. Brady, D. Maguire, P. Carolan, L. Maguire, B. O'Reilly, T. Hardy, V. Sherlock, S. Hetherton, M. Higgins, E. Carolan, J.J. Cassidy, A. Tighe, J. Cusack. Sub: P. Fitzsimons Cavan:0-9
Meath:0-5

[edit] All-Ireland Junior Football Championships:1

Year Squad Opponent
1927 J. Morgan, J. Martin, T. Crowe, G. Malcolmson, F. Fitzpatrick, L. Flaherty, H. O'Reilly, P. Devlin, T. Corr, F. Reid, P.J. O'Reilly, L. Mallon, A. Conlon, P. Lynch, J.P. Dolan Cavan:0-7
Kildare:0-3

[edit] All-Ireland Minor Football Championships:2

Year Squad Opponent
1937 J.J. Brady, M. Argue, B. Cully, T. Cully, P. Clarke, M. O'Reilly, T.P. O'Reilly, P. O'Reilly, D. Brady, P. Conaty, H. Bouchier, P. McDonnell, J. McCormack, M. Farrell, P. Fay Cavan:1-11
Kerry:0-8
1938 J.D. Benson, W. Doonan, B. Cully, P. Galligan, M. Reilly, P. Coyle, S. Deignan, J. Maguire, J. McCormack, K. O'Reilly, P. Conaty, M. Fitzsimons, F. Coyle, J. Johnson, P. Doyle Cavan:3-3
Wexford:1-5

[edit] National Football League:2

Year Squad Opponent
1947/48 J.D. Benson, W. Doonan, B. O'Reilly, P. Smith, P. J. Duke, J.J. O'Reilly, S. Deignan, P. Brady, V. Sherlock, A. Tighe, M. Higgins, J.J. Cassidy, J. Stafford, P. Donohoe, E. Carolan (probable team) Cavan:5–9
Cork:2–8
(replay)
1949/50 S. Morris, W. Doonan, B. O'Reilly, P. Smith, O.R. McGovern, J.J. O'Reilly, S. Deignan, P. J. Duke, P. Brady, A. Tighe, M. Higgins, J.J. Cassidy, J. Stafford, P. Donohoe, E. Carolan. Sub: T.P. O'Reilly Cavan:2-9
Meath:1-6
  • Ulster Senior Football Championships: 39
    • 1891, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1969, 1997
Year Squad Opponent
1997 Paul O’Dowd, Philip Kermath, Ciarán Brady, Terry Farrelly, Gerry Sheridan, Bernard Morris, Patrick Shiels, Stephen King, Dermot McCabe, Peter Reilly, Ronan Carolan (10pts), Ray Cunningham (1pt), Larry Reilly (2pts), Fintan Cahill, Damien O'Reilly. Used Suds: Philip Smith, Jason Reilly (1-1), Mickey Graham, Antony Forde. Cavan:1-14
Derry:0-16

[edit] Hurling

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[edit] Honours

  • Ulster Senior Hurling Championships: 0
    • Represented Ulster in the 1908 All-Ireland series. Lost the delayed Ulster final for that year when it was played (the following year) to Derry.

National League Division 4 1984

Famous Players

Finbarr Noonan John Wall PJ Kelly Martin Butler Enda Sheridan Cecil O Reilly

[edit] Ladies' Gaelic football

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[edit] Honours

[edit] Camogie

The high point in Cavan’s camogie history was their Ulster senior titles of 1940 and 1941, when they beat Antrim 2-3 to 1-2 after a wrangle over getting permits to travel to war-time Belfast. They lost to Galway by 4-4 to 0-3 in the 1940 All Ireland semi-final, but drew with Dublin in the 1941 semi-final 4-0 to 3-3, thanks to a last-minute goal from Rita Sullivan, losing the replay 3-4 to 1-1. The team was captained by Mollie O’Brien from Killygarry (née Donohoe) who helped revive the game in Cavan in 1968.[1] All Cavan’s scores in both matches were scored by Rita Sullivan.[2] Cavan won the second division of the National Camogie League in 1981 and reached the 1994 junior final only to lose to Cork. They won the Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup in 2009. Agnes O'Farrelly and Agnes Hennessy served as presidents of the Camogie Association).

Under Camogie’s National Development Plan 2010-2015, “Our Game, Our Passion,”[3] Carlow, Cavan, Laois, Louth and Roscommon are to get a total of 17 new clubs by 2015.[4]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Players' honours

[edit] All Stars

Since the 1960s there has been a tradition of annually selecting the best footballer in each position, to create a special team of the year. Between 1963 and 1967 these players received what was known as Cú Chulainn awards. In 1971 these awards were formalised into the annual All Star Awards.

Player Awards Years
Gabriel Kelly 3 1963,1964,1967
Ray Carolan 2 1966, 1967
Charlie Gallagher 1 1964
Ollie Brady 1 1978
Dermot McCabe 1 1997

[edit] International Rules representatives

A number of Cavan players have been selected to play International rules football for the Ireland team against Australia:

Player Appearances Years
Jim Reilly 3 1987
Stephen King 1 1987
Dermot McCabe 2 1998, 2001
Larry Reilly 2 2000

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mollie O’Brien obituary in Hogan Stand
  2. ^ Anglo-Celt Oct 11 1941
  3. ^ Irish Independent March 29 2010: Final goal for camogie
  4. ^ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie, pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site

[edit] External links
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Senior Football Championship

Ballinagh - Belturbet - Castlerahan - Cavan Gaels - Crosserlough - Cúchulainn's - Denn - Gowna - Killygarry - Kingscourt - Knockbride - Lacken Celtic - Mullahoran - Ramor United
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