The club was formed in 1954. The club's most famous player was
Kevin Moran. The club fields teams in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie to represent the South Dublin parish of Drimnagh. The club, known locally as 'Counsel', is one of the biggest sporting clubs in the area, with approximately 800 members. There are boys and girls teams which play hurling, football and camogie from nursery up to minor level. The club is represented at intermediate hurling, senior camogie and at intermediate football level with junior teams in football, and camogie. In March 2016, the club merged with
Liffey Gaels of nearby
Ballyfermot for their 2016 Junior B Hurling Campaign and would be competing as
Counsel Gaels. Over the coming years, other teams from both clubs began to merge. The men's section of the club played their last match under the "Good Counsel" name on 19 November 2019 in a 4–14 to 0-12 quarter-final defeat against
Lucan Sarsfields in the 2019
Dubin U21 Hurling 'C' Championship. The Ladies' section of the club fully merged with
Liffey Gaels in 2022. The camogie section of the club continues to play under the "Good Counsel" name, fielding three teams at adult level as of 2022. ==Honours==