Kilmacud Crokes GAA

Kilmacud GAA club was formed in 1959 following a public meeting in Saint Laurence's Hall, where Stillorgan shopping centre now stands. The first meeting of the club took place on 12 March 1959. Sixty people attended the meeting and donated a shilling each, meaning the club made IR£3.30 on the night. The club decided to use green-and-white jerseys, but they later decided to use the gold-and-purple colours, some say because of the local school Scoil Lorcain Naofa who also use gold and purple, St. Benburbs FC was famous because the first-ever All-Ireland Final was played on their ground in Clonskeagh in 1887. In 1973, a camogie section of the club was set up and in February 1996 a Ladies' Gaelic football Section was set up. The club has installed an astro-turf GAA pitch at the paddock, an area formerly used as a carpark/training ground, a venture which was finished in September 2006, and constructed indoor and outdoor hurling walls during 2007. The current football Senior team is managed by Robbie Brennan and Johnny Magee. Anthony Daly is the current hurling coach. ==The Sevens==

Kilmacud Crokes are also known for hosting the Sevens football and hurling competitions each year. Separate competitions are held on the weekends of the various All-Ireland Finals in September. For example, the Football competition is held on the Saturday before the All-Ireland Football final and the Hurling competition is held on the Saturday before the All-Ireland Hurling final. The Sevens were first played in 1973 and have since become an integral part of the All-Ireland weekends and feature on sports news programmes. Discussions and previews of the All-Ireland final on the following day are the subject of a lot of the media broadcasts. The competitions run from the morning through to the evening. The games are played at various locations in and around Stillorgan including Glenalbyn, Deer Park, St Benildus College, ''St Olaf's and Silverpark''. The finals are always played in Glenalbyn. The games are played with teams of seven players with two-halves of ten minutes each. Erin's Own of Cork and Castlewellan of Down were crowned Hurling and Football Sevens Champions for 2006 respectively. Longstone of Down won the 2007 football competition. ==Record==

1990s Kilmacud Crokes won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final on St Patrick's Day, 1995 under the management of Tommy Lyons. However the match caused significant controversy as Kilmacud had an extra player on the pitch during the last play of the game, breaching rule 2.1 of the GAA rulebook. The GAA ordered a replay of the final after Glen lodged an objection. However, after Kilmacud lodged an appeal against a replay, Glen withdrew from the appeals process, saying that they "do not believe the conditions exist for a replay", resulting in Kilmacud retaining their title. In 2023, Kilmacud made history by winning 3 in-a-row Leinster titles beating Naas (KE) by a scoreline of 1–14 to 0–10. They are the first club to do achieve this in Leinster. They went on to narrowly lose to Glen in the semi-final with a scoreline of 2–10 to 1–14 in a weather affected match. Youth Kilmacud Crokes has won the All-Ireland Football Féile final three times, the first of these coming in 2003, the second in 2008 and the third in 2019. The hurlers added to the club's success with an All-Ireland Hurling Féile of their own in 2005. This hurling victory was the first time in the club's history that they had won the Dublin Hurling Féile and only the second time a Dublin Club had won the All-Ireland Féile. In 2014 the hurlers won Dublin and All-Ireland Hurling Féile titles. In 2008 the U-14A hurling team again reached the All-Ireland Féile group stages, but after a tough match in the pouring rain they lost to James Stephens from Kilkenny. The U-14A footballers enjoyed more success and emerged victorious as All-Ireland Winners in Cavan in July. The ladies U-14 team also made it to their final also in Cavan, only to be beaten in the end by Naomh Michael. A full table of results is available here: Football Feile 2008 Results Kilmacud Crokes won the Dublin Minor Hurling Championship final in 2007. They won the title for the third time in the club's history when they beat Na Fianna in a replay. The manager of the team was former Tipperary player, Richard Stakelum. A fourth title was added in 2009 when the Pat Halpin managed team that had won the All Ireland Feile in 2005 defeated St Vincents in the final. The club won their third Dublin Minor Hurling Championship in four years in November 2010 when a previously unfancied Crokes minor team capped an impressive championship run by beating favourites Ballyboden St. Endas in the final by 9 points. Adult Football • All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championships: (3) • 1995, 2009, 2023 • Leinster Senior Club Football Championships: (7) • 1994, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2021, 2022, 2023 • Dublin Senior Football Championships: (11) • 1992, 1994, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 • Dublin Intermediate Football Championships: (2) • 1978, 1987 • Dublin Junior Football Championship (2) • 1986, 2016 • Dublin Junior D Football Championship: (2) • 2017, 2021 • Dublin Senior Football League (6) • 1994, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2017 • Dublin Senior Football League Division 2 (2) • 1980, 1988 • Dublin AFL Division 3 (2) • 2015, 2018 • Dublin AFL Division 8 (1) • 2018 • Dublin AFL Division 9 (1) • 2008 Hurling • Dublin Senior Hurling Championships: (7) • 1966, 1974, 1976, 1985, 2012, 2014, 2021, 2022 • Dublin Senior B Hurling Championships: (2) • 2014 • Dublin Senior Hurling Leagues: (2) • 1996, 2011 • Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championships: (2) • 1963, 2011 • Dublin Junior Hurling Championships: (4) • 1935, 1936, 1992, 2002 • Dublin Junior B Hurling Championship (1) • 1998 • Dublin Junior C Hurling Championship (1) • 2016 Ladies' Football • '''Leinster Ladies' Senior Club Football Championship''' (4) • 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 • '''Dublin Ladies' Senior Football Championship''' (4) • 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 Juvenile • Dublin Minor A Hurling Championship 10 • 1985, 1998, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 • Dublin Minor C Hurling Championship 1 • 2006 • Dublin Under 21 Football Championship 5 • 1983, 1988, 2002, 2015, 2016 • Dublin Minor A Football Championship 5 • 1999, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2021 • Dublin Minor B Football Championship 1 • 1992 • Dublin Minor C Football Championship 1 • 2020 • Dublin Minor D Football Championship 1 • 2014 ==Notable players==

• Mick Bermingham • Pat Burke • Paddy Carr • Niall Corcoran • Niall Corkery • Ray Cosgrove • Mark Davoren • Deirdre Duke • Paul Griffin • Brian Kavanagh • Tommy Lyons • Darren Magee • Johnny Magee • Paul Mannion • Seán McGrath • Kevin Nolan • Liam Óg Ó hÉineacháin • Rory O'Carroll • Ross O'Carroll • Paddy O'Donoghue • Ryan O'Dwyer • Tomás Ó Flatharta • Barry O'Rorke • Cian O'Sullivan • Richard Stakelum • Mark Vaughan ==See also==