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Wexford is one of the few counties to have won the All-Ireland Senior Championship in both football and hurling. Wexford have won five [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|Football Championships]], with the most recent in 1918. |
Wexford is one of the few counties to have won the All-Ireland Senior Championship in both football and hurling. Wexford have won five [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|Football Championships]], with the most recent in 1918. |
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==History== |
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==Gaelic football== |
==Gaelic football== |
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- For more information see Wexford Senior Hurling Championship and Wexford Senior Football Championship
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| Irish: | Loch Garman |
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| Nickname(s): | The Model County The Yellowbellies The Slaneysiders The Strawberry Pickers |
| Province: | Leinster |
| Dominant sport: | Hurling |
| Ground(s): | Wexford Park, Wexford |
| County colours: | Purple and gold |
| County teams | |
| NFL: | Division 3 |
| NHL: | Division 1B |
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup |
| Hurling Championship: | Liam McCarthy Cup |
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup |
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup |
The Wexford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Template:Lang-ga) or Wexford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wexford. The county board is also responsible for the Wexford inter-county teams.
Wexford is one of the few counties to have won the All-Ireland Senior Championship in both football and hurling. Wexford have won five Football Championships, with the most recent in 1918.
Gaelic football
Wexford had one of the greatest football teams in the history of the GAA in the 1910s, winning six Leinster and four All-Ireland titles in a row.[1] The team was trained by 1900 star James 'the Bull' Roche, who had fought for the World Heavyweight boxing Championship. The team featured Fr. Ned Wheeler, Aidan Doyle and the O'Kennedy brothers, Gus and Sean. The latter was the team captain. The feat of six Leinster titles in a row was only equalled in 1931 when Kildare won the sixth in a sequence that began in 1926.[2]
Wexford's last major football success was winning the Leinster title in 1945. From then on, hurling took precedent in Wexford and as a consequence the Wexford footballers suffered, with the team descending into obscurity for many years. More recently, Wexford have had a strong team. The team reached the Division 1 League final of 2005 under the management of Pat Roe but were beaten by a strong Armagh team that day.
In April 2008, in Jason Ryan's first year as manager of the team, Wexford beat Fermanagh to win the Division 3 League final. This proved to be the first success of what would be a historic year for Wexford football, as they reached their first Leinster final in over 50 years. Along the way they stunned Meath by coming from ten points down to win their quarter-final in Carlow, and then beat Laois comprehensively in the semi-final. This was Wexford's 5th consecutive appearance in the provincial semi final, but their first victory. In the final they were comprehensively beaten by a strong Dublin team in the final, 3-23 to 0-09.
Wexford recovered from their humiliation and came through the back door, beating Down by seven points in a shock result to reach the last eight and a game with Armagh. From here, they produced one of the shocks of the championship, winning by 1-14 to 0-12 to reach their first All Ireland semi-final since 1945. They were beaten by 6 points by Tyrone, having been within two points of the eventual champions in the closing stages.
Wexford again reached the Leinster final in the 2011 Leinster Championship. Wexford had an easier run to the final than in 2008, facing Offaly, Westmeath and Carlow. In the final they faced Dublin again, but ran them much closer. A poor performance from Dublin's star player Bernard Brogan helped Wexford stay in touch with Dublin throughout the match, but a bizarre own goal meant they ultimately lost by 2-12 to 1-12, to the team that went on to win the All-Ireland.[3][4] Wexford entered Round 4 of the qualifiers where they faced Limerick, but they were beaten by a single point, on a score of 1-18 to 1-17.
Current football team
- Manager: Aidan O'Brien
Squad as per Wexford vs Laois in Round 3 of the All-Ireland Qualifiers on 20 July 2013.[5]
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 5
- 1893, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 1
- 1992
- Leinster Senior Football Championships: 10
- 1890, 1893, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1925, 1945
- Leinster Minor Football Championship: 3
- 1937, 1950, 1969
- Leinster Junior Football Championship: 6
- 1911, 1963, 1984, 1992, 2000, 2007
- Leinster Under-21 Football Championship: 1
- 2011
Camogie
After winning promotion form intermediate in the late 1950s, Wexford won their first All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship in 1968, and won further All Ireland titles in 1969, 1975, 2007, 2010 and 2011. They contested the first National Camogie League final in 1977, won the second competition and returned to win it three times in a row between 2009 and 2011. Buffers Alley (5) and Rathnure (1995) have won the All Ireland senior club championship.
Notable players include team of the century members Mary Sinnott and Margaret O'Leary, player of the year award-winners Bridget Doyle and Kate Kelly, All Star award winners[6] Áine Codd, Mags Darcy, Mary Leacy, Ursula Jacob. Una Leacy, Claire O'Connor, Catherine O'Loughlin, Katrina Parrock and All Ireland final stars Mary Walsh and Gretta Quigley.
Under Camogie’s National Development Plan 2010-2015, “Our Game, Our Passion,”[7] five new camogie clubs are to be established in the county by 2015.[8]
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championships: 7
- All-Ireland Intermediate Camogie Championships: 1
- 2011[10]
- All-Ireland Minor Camogie Championships: 1
- 1995
- National Camogie Leagues: 4
Ladies' Gaelic football
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Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Finalists: 3
- 1983, 1986, 1989
- All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championship Finalists: 2
- 1986, 1987
- All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies' Football Championship Finalists: 1
- 2007
- All-Ireland Under-18 Ladies' Football Championships: 3
- 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986
- All-Ireland Under-16 Ladies' Football Championship: 3
- 1981, 1982, 1983
References
- ^ Wexford Four in a Row[dead link]
- ^ Smith, Raymond (1968). "Chapter 4 - Wexford's Four-in-a-row". The Football Immortals. Dublin: Bruce Spicer Ltd. p. 50-61.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ O'Riordan, Ian (11 July 2011). "Final cut is cruel as Wexford's own goal is decisive". The Irish Times.
- ^ Murphy, Cian (10 July 2010). "Gilroy happy to survive on rare Brogan offday". Irish Independent.
- ^ "Aidan Un-Leashes, his team". Wexford GAA. 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
- ^ All-stars on camogie.ie
- ^ Irish Independent March 29 2010: Final goal for camogie
- ^ National Development Plan 2010-2015, Our Game, Our Passion information page on camogie.ie, pdf download (778k) from Camogie.ie download site
- ^ 2011 final Wexford 2-7 Galway 1-8 Report in Irish Examiener, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Camogie.ie, RTE Online, Preview in Irish Examiner Irish Times Irish Independent
- ^ 2011 final Wexford 2-12 Antrim 0-15 Report in Irish Times