Broadford GAA

Infobox GAA club
club gaa = Broadford
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irish = Gearr Eischir
county = Kildare
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colours = Maroon and White
grounds = Belrenneth, Williamstown
founded = 1923
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Broadford is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, winners of two senior hurling and 16 senior camogie titles. It enlists players from a radius of twenty miles from the Boyne bridge in Edenderry, Leinster bridge in Clonard, Blackwater bridge in Enfield and Barney Bridge in Allenwood. Mick Moore was selected at full-forward on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. Anna Dargan, Phyllis Hurst, Miriam Malone, Bernie Farrelly and Patricia Keatley were selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century.

History

Balyna (described in 1908 as the only purely hurling club in the county) and Moyvalley were affiliated in 1907. Garriskar also competed in the 1910s and Johnstownbridge in the 1920s and 1930s. Broadford affiliated in 1923 but had been in existence for three years beforehand, winning a gold medal tournament in Meath with seven Bourkes on the team. Patsy Loughrey was one of the founding fathers, and Father James organised a house to house collection that yielded IR2/10/0 for the club's first set of jerseys. Dermot Bourke, brother of dual All Ireland medalist Frank, was responsible for re-organising the club after it regarded junior in 1950. Bourke played for 34 years before collecting a county medal in 1960, scoring one of Broadford’s goals in the final.

Gaelic Football

Broadford players play football with Clogherinkoe

Hurling

The club were beaten in 11 county finals before they won the double in 1960 and 1961 defeating Military College on home ground in Thomastown. Fourteen Carbury natives fielded with Broadford while Military College had five inter-county players and no Kildare natives. Broadford won by 3-2 to 1-5. Joe Costigan, Pat and John Cummins, Ted Duffy and John Ennis were all participants in the victory. Broadford repeated the act a year later, when they beat their predecessors as county champions, Athy, by three points.

Camogie

Founded in 1967, the club dominated camogie in Kildare between 1978 and 1993, beating Carbury 10-15 to nil in the 1991 final and winning Leinster junior club title in 1987. In all they won 16 senior and two junior championships. Miriam Malone-Miggin is considered the county’s greatest camogie player.

Honours

*Kildare Senior Hurling Championship winners 1960, 1961
*League champions 1988.
*Senior H Finalists 1925, 1936, 1934, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1964, 1969.
*Kildare Junior finalists 1950, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1962, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1987.
*Junior league champions 1974, 1976, 1981.
*Camogie Leinster junior champions 1987.
*Kildare senior camogie champions 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991,1993..
*Junior champions 1967.
*Senior League 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993.
*Junior girls team 2008-
*Ruth Bergin
*Ellen Morgan
*Eleanor McGovern
*Elena Burke
*Shannen Grehan
*Shannon Malone
*Alison Daly
*Audrey Flynn
*Heather Mulligan
*Gabrielle Walsh
*Trainer- Pat Farrell

Bibliography

* Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
* Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
* Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.

External links

* [http://kildare.gaa.ie/ Kildare GAA site]
* [http://www.clubgaa.ie/kildare/ Kildare GAA club sites]
* [http://www.hoganstand.com/Kildare/ Kildare on Hoganstand.com]
* [http://gaelicgames.in/dublin.php Broadford GAA on GaelicGames.In]