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Dublin Senior Hurling Championship 2011Irish Craobh Sinsear Iomána Átha Cliath Code Hurling Founded 1887 Region 
Dublin (GAA)No. of teams 12 (2011) Title holders Ballyboden St Endas (5th title) Most titles Faughs (31 titles) Sponsors Evening Herald TV partner(s) TG4 Official website hill16.ie The Dublin Senior Hurling Championship (Irish: Craobh Sinsear Iomána Átha Cliath) is an annual hurling competition organised by the Dublin County Board since 1887 for the top hurling clubs in County Dublin, Ireland. The winners of the competition qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Championship and, if successful, go on to compete in the All-Ireland Championship. Over the years, non-traditional clubs have been allowed to compete in the Dublin Championship such as regional teams and third-level club, UCD, who have won the competition on several occasions. In its inaugural year, the competition was won by the Metropolitan Hurling Club.[1]
The 2011 tournament was won by Ballyboden St Endas who beat O'Tooles in the final by 3-12 to 0-09.[2]
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History
Origins (1882-1887)
The organisation of hurling clubs in Dublin predates the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). In 1882, Michael Cusack attended the first meeting of the ‘Dublin Hurling Club’, formed ‘for the purpose of taking steps to re-establish the national game of hurling’. In September 1883, more than a year before the GAA was founded, Cusack began to organise hurling practices in the Phoenix Park in Dublin on Saturday afternoons. The game had long been lost to the city and to most of the remaining parts of the country as well. As a consequence, just four men turned up on that first Saturday. Slowly the numbers grew, with intrigued spectators joining in. Eventually, Cusack had sufficient numbers to found ‘Cusack's Academy Hurling Club’ which, in turn, led to the establishment of the Metropolitan Hurling Club. Cusack then established a hurling club in his school on Gardiner Place in October 1883. Immediately, the two clubs began to play matches against each other. A report, written by Cusack, records a game played in December 1883: "During the third and fourth quarters the hurling became so fast and furious, the goals were so threatened on the one hand and defended on the other, that spectators expected to be called on after each charge to help the disabled to Steevens Hospital." On Easter Monday 1884, the Metropolitans played Killimor, in Galway. The game had to be stopped on numerous occasions as the two teams were playing to different rules. It was this clash of styles that convinced Cusack that not only did the rules of the games need to be standardised, but that a body must be established to govern Irish sports.[3][4]
On Saturday, 1 November 1884, the GAA was founded in Hayes' Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary.[5] Michael Cusack was among the founding members present that day. From then on, Gaelic games adopted a more structured approach and were governed in each county by a separate body known as the county board. The Dublin County Board was set up in 1886 and within a year had organised a hurling competition known today as the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship. In 1887, the first Dublin Senior Hurling Championship was played out and was won by the Metropolitans, previously formed by Cusack in 1883.
Records and statistics
The most successful club in the history of the Dublin Senior Hurling Championship has been Faughs who have won the competition on 31 occasions, their last title captured in 1999. St Vincents, who are the most successful football club in Dublin, are second with a total of 13 titles, their last in 1993. The record for most consecutive titles is held by Commercials, Garda and more recently Ballyboden St Endas who each secured a five-in-a-row between the years 1895-99, 1925-29 and 2007-2011 respectively.[6]
Current champions, Ballyboden St Endas, have won 5 consecutive titles since 2007 and contested a total of 8 finals in the last 10 years. In 2009, they won the double, claiming both the hurling and football championship. This was the first time that a Dublin club had won the double since St Vincents had achieved it in 1981.[7]
Roll of honour
Rank Club Winners Years winners 1 Faughs 31 1892, 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1930, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1999 2 St Vincents 13 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1975, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1993 3 Commercials 9 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1916 4 O'Tooles 8 1969, 1977, 1984, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002 4 UCD 8 1934, 1947, 1948, 1961, 1968, 2000, 2004, 2005 6 Garda 6 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931 6 Young Irelands 6 1932, 1937, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1965 7 Ballyboden St Endas 5 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 8 Craobh Chiaráin 5 1971, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006 9 Kickhams 4 1889, 1890, 1908, 1924 9 Kilmacud Crokes 4 1966, 1974, 1976, 1985 12 Rapparees 3 1891, 1894, 1912 12 Collegians 3 1917, 1918, 1919 12 Army Metro 3 1933, 1935, 1938 12 Cuala 3 1989, 1991, 1994 16 New Irelands 2 1958, 1959 16 Crumlin 2 1978, 1979 18 Metropolitans 1 1887 18 Davitts 1 1893 18 Thomas Davis 1 1913 18 Eoghan RuadhsA 1 1951 18 St ColumbasB 1 1956 18 Junior Board Selection 1 1963 18 St Brendans 1 1980 18 Erins Isle 1 1983 - No competition: 1888, 1902.[6]
- A: Eoghan Ruadhs Hurling Club and St Oliver Plunketts Football Club amalgamated to form St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh GAA.
- B: St Columbas Hurling Club and St Agnes Football Club amalgamated to form Crumlin GAA.
Finals
Year Winners Runners-up 2011 Ballyboden St Endas 3-12 O'Toole's 0-09 2010 Ballyboden St Endas 3-17 St Vincents 1-10 2009 Ballyboden St Endas 1-16 Craobh Chiaráin 1-12 2008 Ballyboden St Endas Kilmacud Crokes 2007 Ballyboden St Endas 2-13 St Vincents 1-05 2006 Craobh Chiaráin Ballyboden St Endas 2005 UCD St Vincents 2004 UCD Ballyboden St Endas 2003 Craobh Chiaráin St Brigids 2002 O'Toole's Craobh Chiaráin 2001 Craobh Chiaráin Ballyboden St Endas 2000 UCD St Vincents 1999 Faughs Craobh Chiaráin 1998 Craobh Chiaráin Crumlin 1997 O'Toole's St Vincents 1996 O'Toole's Kilmacud Crokes 1995 O'Toole's St Vincents 1994 Cuala Crumlin 1993 St Vincents Crumlin 1992 Faughs Craobh Chiaráin 1991 Cuala Craobh Chiaráin 1990 O'Toole's St Vincents 1989 Cuala St Vincents 1988 St Vincents Ballyboden St Endas 1987 Faughs Cuala 1986 Faughs Erins Isle 1985 Kilmacud Crokes O'Toole's 1984 O'Toole's Kilmacud Crokes 1983 Erins Isle Ballyboden St Endas 1982 St Vincents O'Toole's 1981 St Vincents O'Toole's 1980 St Brendans Faughs 1979 Crumlin St Brendans 1978 Crumlin Faughs 1977 O'Toole's Faughs 1976 Kilmacud Crokes Craobh Chiaráin 1975 St Vincents Craobh Chiaráin 1974 Kilmacud Crokes Faughs 1973 Faughs 1972 Faughs 1971 Craobh Chiaráin St Vincents 1970 Faughs 1969 O'Tooles Faughs 1968 UCD 1967 St Vincents 1966 Kilmacud Crokes St Columbas 1965 Young Irelands UCD 1964 St Vincents 1963 Junior Board Selection Young Irelands 1962 St Vincents St Columbas 1961 UCD 1960 St Vincents 1959 New Irelands 1958 New Irelands 1957 St Vincents 1956 St Columbas 1955 St Vincents 1954 St Vincents 1953 St Vincents 1952 Faughs Civil Service 1951 Eoghan Ruadhs St Vincents 1950 Faughs 1949 Young Irelands 1948 UCD 1947 UCD Faughs 1946 Faughs 1945 Faughs 1944 Faughs Eoghan Ruadhs 1943 Young Irelands 6-10 UCD 3-03 1942 Young Irelands 1941 Faughs Eoghan Ruadhs 1940 Faughs Eoghan Ruadhs 1939 Faughs Eoghan Ruadhs 1938 Army Metro 1937 Young Irelands 1936 Faughs 1935 Army Metro 1934 UCD 1933 Army Metro 1932 Young Irelands UCD 1931 Garda 1930 Faughs 1929 Garda 1928 Garda 1927 Garda 1926 Garda 1925 Garda 1924 Kickhams Young Irelands 1923 Faughs 1922 Faughs 1921 Faughs 1920 Faughs 1919 Collegians 1918 Collegians 1917 Collegians 1916 Commercials 1915 Faughs 1914 Faughs 1913 Thomas Davis 1912 Rapparees 1911 Faughs 1910 Faughs 1909 Commercials 1908 Kickhams 1907 Commercials 1906 Faughs 1905 Commercials 1904 Faughs 1903 Faughs 1902 No Competition 1901 Faughs 1900 Faughs 1899 Commercials 1898 Commercials 1897 Commercials 1896 Commercials 1895 Commercials 1894 Rapparees 1893 Davitts 1892 Faughs 1891 Rapparees 1890 Kickhams 1889 Kickhams 1888 Metropolitans References
- ^ Ryall, Tom; Gaelic Athletic Association (2001). Comhairle Laighean 1900-2000: Céad Bliain de Chluichí Gaelacha. Leinster GAA. p. 119. http://leinster.gaa.ie/archive/pdf/P33_34_WalshCupHurling.pdf. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
- ^ "Boden make it five in-a-row". hill16.ie (Dublin County Board). 30 October 2011. http://www.hill16.ie/index.php?/home/comments/boden-make-it-five-in-a-row/.html. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ^ Rouse, Paul. "Gaelic Games Through the Decades". hill16.ie. Dublin County Board. http://www.hill16.ie/index.php?/home/dublin-gaa-history/. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
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- ^ "Dublin SHC: Ballyboden do the double". hoganstand.com (Lynn Group). 2 November 2009. http://www.hoganstand.com/dublin/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=119860. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
External links
- Friends of Dublin Hurling
- The official Dublin GAA website
- The official Leinster GAA website
- The official GAA website
See Also
Categories:- Dublin Senior Hurling Championship
- Dublin GAA Hurling championships
- Senior hurling county championships
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