Loughmore-Castleiney GAA

Infobox GAA club
club gaa = Loughmore-Castleiney
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irish = Luchma - Caisleán Laighnigh
county = Tipperary
colours = Green and Red
grounds = Cuguilla
founded = 1885
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Loughmore-Castleiney GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Tipperary, Ireland. The club draws its players and support from the small parish of the same name. The area comprises the villages of Loughmore and Castleiney and their surrounding hinterland. The parish is often known as a "football island" in mid-Tipperary as it is surrounded by clubs that play hurling only and as a general rule do not engage in serious football.

Loughmore-Castleiney has traditionally been a gaelic football club but also has a successful hurling team. In 2008, it will be one of only three dual senior hurling and football clubs in county Tipperary. Michéal Webster and Paul Ormonde from the club are current members of the Tipperary hurling team. Micéal is son of Eddie Webster, inter-county senior football full-back with Tipperary in the 1960s and 1970s, who also represented Munster in the inter-provincial championship for the Railway Cup. Another Railway Cup and Tipperary footballer of note from the same era was Seán Kearney who excelled as a mid-fielder for club, county and province.

The Club provided Jim Ryan and Bill Ryan (Laha) to the Tipperary team that played in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday against Dublin in November, 1920 when their playing colleague Michael Hogan of Grangemockler was one of 15 people shot and killed by British forces who opened fire from the sidelines. Bill Ryan lived to be 100 years and until his death was a frequent attender at local football matches involving Loughmore-Castleiny and was popularly known as Bill Laha.

Honours

*Munster Senior Hurling Club Championship 2007
*Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship 2007, 1988
*Tipperary Senior Football Championship 2004, 1992, 1987, 1983, 1979, 1977, 1973, 1955, 1946, 1940, 1914 (Castleiney)
*Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship 1980
*Mid-Tipperary Senior Football Championship 2007, 2003-2005, 1987-2000, 1965-1985, 1954-1958(Loughmore), 1948, 1946, 1940, 1941, 1919 (Castleiney), 1915(Castleiney), 1914 (Castleiney)
*Mid-Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship 2004, 2003, 2002, 1998, 1994, 1992, 1986-1988

External links

* [http://tipperary.gaa.ie/ Tipperary GAA site]