Bantry Blues

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Bantry Blues
Gorma Beanntraí
Founded:
County:Cork
Colours:Blue and White
Grounds:Wolfe Tone Park, Bantry
Coordinates:51°41′15.61″N 9°26′46.95″W / 51.6876694°N 9.4463750°W / 51.6876694; -9.4463750Coordinates: 51°41′15.61″N 9°26′46.95″W / 51.6876694°N 9.4463750°W / 51.6876694; -9.4463750
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Munster
champions		 Cork
champions
Football: - - 2

Bantry Blues is a Gaelic football club based in Bantry, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. The club is affiliated with Cork GAA and to the Carbery division. The club has always been primarily a Gaelic football club, but has fielded hurling teams also. In 2010, the hurling section was reformed.

History[edit]

The club was founded in 1887.

Honours[edit]

  • Cork Senior Football Championship Winners (2) 1995, 1998 Runners Up: 1909,1981, 2001
  • Cork Intermediate Football Championship Winners (6) 1912, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1975, 1993 Runners Up: 1933, 1937
  • Cork Junior Football Championship Winners: (2) 1928, 1972,
  • Cork Under-21 Football Championship Winners (2) 1993, 1994
  • Cork Minor Football Championship Runners-Up: 1941, 1979, 2009
  • Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Runners-Up 2015[1]
  • West Cork Junior A Football Championship Winners: (9) 1928, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1985 Runners-Up 1931, 1937, 1947, 1961, 1967, 1971
  • West Cork Junior B Football Championship: Winners (1) 1974, Runners-Up: 1972, 1973
  • West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship: Winners (2) 1972, 2012 Runners Up: 1961
  • West Cork Junior C Football Championship: Winners (2) 1988, 2010 Runners-Up: 1980
  • West Cork Junior D Football Championship: Winners (2) 2008, 2013
  • West Cork Minor A Football Championship: Winners (16): 1941, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007 Runners-Up 2008,2017
  • West Cork Under-21 Football Championship: Winners (9) 1972, 1978, 1979, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2012[2] Runners-Up: 1969, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1990

Notable players[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Shanballymore joy as brave Bantry fall just short". Irish Examiner. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Bantry's lethal attack too much for Castlehaven". Irish Examiner. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.

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