Clubs Clubs contest the
Carlow Senior Football Championship. That competition's most successful club is
Éire Óg, with 29 titles. Carlow clubs have a decent record in the
All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Éire Óg has five Leinster titles, while O'Hanrahans has one. Éire Óg was deprived of the All-Ireland club title in 1993 by
Cork's
O'Donovan Rossa of
Skibbereen. The club was defeated by 1-7 to 0-8 after a replay in Limerick, after being controversially denied a winning goal in injury time. The team had to make do with immortality of a different kind; they are seen togged out in 1920-style kit, posing as the
Tipperary Bloody Sunday team in
Neil Jordan's film
Michael Collins, against a
Kilmacud Crokes team filling in as
Dublin.
County team The county team won a
Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC) in 1944. The final was played in
Athy due to the war and Carlow defeated
Dublin by a scoreline of 2–6 to 1–6. Carlow also lost Leinster SFC finals in 1941 and 1942 to the same opposition.
Kerry fisherman-publican
Paddy Bawn Brosnan kept Carlow from reaching an All-Ireland SFC final in 1944. His second-half goal put Carlow out of the All-Ireland semi-final by a scoreline of 3–3 to 0–10. Ten years later Carlow reached the
National League final with a famous 1–10 to 1–7 win against
Armagh, but were well beaten by
Mayo in the final. Carlow won the 1994 All-Ireland B Senior Football Championship, and an
O'Byrne Cup in
2002. The team defeated
Wicklow by a scoreline of 2–10 to 0–8. Other significant performances include reaching the
Leinster Minor Football Championship final in 2007, when the team lost to Laois. The Carlow Vocational Schools team won the VEC All Ireland Championship in 1973, while Carlow CBS won an All-Ireland B title at
Croke Park in 2015. An under-21 team came within a point of defeating Dublin in 1984. ==Hurling==