Tipperary GAA
- For more details of Tipperary GAA see Tipperary Senior Club Football Championship ,Tipperary Senior Club Hurling Championship 2006 or Tipperary Senior Club Hurling Championship 2007.
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| Irish: | Tiobraid Árann |
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| Nickname(s): | The Premier County Tipp The Home of Hurling |
| Province: | Munster |
| Dominant sport: | Hurling |
| Ground(s): | Semple Stadium, Thurles |
| County colours: | Blue and Gold |
| County teams | |
| NFL: | Division 4 |
| NHL: | Division 1 |
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup |
| Hurling Championship: | Liam McCarthy Cup |
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup |
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup |
The Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Tiobraid Árainn) or Tipperary GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Tipperary. The county board is also responsible for the Tipperary inter-county teams.
County Tipperary holds an honoured place in the history of the Gaelic Athletic Association as the organisation was founded in Hayes' Hotel in Thurles on November 1, 1884.
Tipperary GAA are currently sponsored by Lucozade Sport. 'Under the agreement, Lucozade Sport will provide financial and product support to all of Tipperary's county teams. The deal, which runs until 2009, will see the teams have access to a sports nutrition expert and to the National Coaching and Training Centre in Limerick.'[1]
Hurling
History
Together with Cork and Kilkenny, Tipperary is one of hurling's so-called "Holy Trinity." They are the third most successful team, having won 25 All-Ireland titles as of 2007. They have also achieved the coveted distinction of twice winning three All-Ireland Finals in a row (1898, 1899, 1900) and (1949, 1950, 1951). The Tipperary team of the 1960s is considered one of the greatest of all time.
Tipperary is known as 'The Premier County'. The county has achieved many firsts in the world of GAA.
- They were the first team to win the All Ireland senior hurling title in 1887 against Galway.
- The first GAA president was a Tipperary man named Maurice Davin, from Carrick-on-Suir, in south Tipperary.
- Tipperary won the first Under 21 All Ireland in 1964.
- The first club to win the All Ireland club title was Roscrea, a club in north Tipperary.
- They were the first to win three All Ireland Hurling titles in a row.
- The first GAA Congress was held in Thurles.
- The first autobiography of a hurler was that of Tommy Doyle 'A lifetime in hurling', which was published in 1955.
- They also are the only team in hurling history to win an All Ireland in every decade.
They dominated hurling at the beginning, winning seven out of the first 15 All Irelands and all seemed great. By the end of the 1940s, they had fallen on lean times, winning just three of the previous twenty All Irelands, but this was not caused by failure to get good hurlers. They had been overshadowed by the great Kilkenny team of the 20's, the legendary Limerick team of the 30's and the even more incredible Cork team of the 40's (who won the first and only All Ireland hurling four in a row). But in 1941, 50 and 51, they replicated what the other teams took twenty years to achieve. This was because of the great players, some of whom would appear in the year 2000 on the hurling Team of the millennium. John Doyle, Tony Reddin, Mickey 'The Rattler' Byrne and Tommy Doyle were just some of these Tipperary legends. They contested evenly with Cork and Kilkenny till the 1960s, in which was considered the greatest Tipperary team in history. This included the legendary Jimmy Doyle of Thurles Sarsfields. He would prove to be Tipps greatest forward of all time. He achieved nearly everything in hurling and holds some records. He is only one of four people to captain The county Seniors and Minors to an All Ireland victory (the rest are fellow clubman Tony Wall, Cork's Sean Condon and Kilkenny's Brian Cody) He (plus clubman Michael Craddock) are the only players to win three All Ireland Minor titles. He is the only player to be in four minor All Ireland hurling finals.
As said, this Tipperary team was unstoppable. Their full back line of John Doyle, Keiran Carey and Michael Maher is one of the greatest in history, it's nickname was 'Hell's Kitchen.' Had they not had an off-day on the Munster final in 1963, it's likely that Tipp would have won an unprecedented five All Ireland's in a row. If Waterford hadn't beat them, it's unlikely that eventual champions Kilkenny would have stood in their way. In 1964 and 1965, including the notably one sided final against Kilkenny in 64, nobody managed to give Tipp a decent game. In 1964, the closest anyone came to Tipp was fourteen points, in 1965 it was twelve. In 1971, not even the greatest hurling pessimist would have predicted that after Tipp won the All Ireland, they wouldn't see another All Ireland title in 18 years. It's not that between 1972 and 1986 that Tipp had not got the breaks with the big boys or they had been narrowly been missing out on provincial honours. Most days, they were hardly at the races at all. But this all changed thanks to 'Babs' Keating. They won the Munster final 1987. It was an historic moment in Tipperary hurling. For the next few years, they won 4 more Munsters and two All Irelands and in 1991 competed in what was said to the greatest ever hurling match, against Cork, which took a last minute point to tie it up to bring it to a replay and then a brilliant re-encounter in Thurles. In 2001, The star of the last team, Nicky English went on to manage Tipp to the National league, Munster and All Ireland in 2001, just when rumours of another famine were coming. In 1971, Tipp had the most All Irelands with 22 All Irelands. After 18 years of nothing, they were still second place, which proves that they are and always will be a dominant force in Hurling. They have three players on the Team of the millennium,, Tony Reddin (Keeper), John Doyle (Left Full Back) and Jimmy Doyle (Right Full Forward). Tipperary curently have a very strong Minor team which recently won back to back All-Ireland Championships in 2006 and 2007, so again the future looks bright for Tipperary hurling. Out of all the fans in Tipperary GAA, there is one who shines most as best supporter, John 'Tipps No1 Fan' Ryan. From ever corner of the country, he's there supporting.
Tipperary Hurling Squad
Former Players
- John Doyle
- Tommy Dunne
- Nicky English
- Pat Fox
- Michael "Babs" Keating
- Richard Stakelum
- Tony Reddan
- Jimmy Doyle
- John Leahy
- Tony Wall
- Declan Ryan
- Colm Bonnar
- John O Donoghue
- Mickey 'The Rattler' Byrne
- Tommy Doyle
Honours
- Munster Senior Hurling Championships: 36
- 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1913, 1916, 1917, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1930, 1937, 1941, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2001
- Munster Junior Hurling Championships: 16
- 1910, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933, 1951, 1953, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Managerial History
| Name | Club | From | To | All-Ireland titles | Munster titles |
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| Tony Wall | Thurles Sarsfields | 1985 | 1986 | ||
| Michael 'Babs' Keating | Ballybacon-Grange | 1986 | 1993 | 1989, 1991 | 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993 |
| Fr. Tom Fogarty | Kilruane McDonagh's | 1993 | 1996 | ||
| Len Gaynor | Kilruane McDonagh's | 1996 | 1998 | ||
| Nicky English | Lattin Cullen | 1998 | 2002 | 2001 | 2001 |
| Michael Doyle | Holycross-Ballycahill | 2002 | 2003 | ||
| Ken Hogan | Lorrha | 2003 | 2005 | ||
| Michael 'Babs' Keating | Ballybacon-Grange | 2005 | 2007 | ||
| Liam Sheedy | Portroe | 2007 | Present |
Gaelic football
Recent performances suggest that Tipperary's footballers preserve some of the traditions of a time when they won four All-Ireland titles, completing the hurling-football "double" in 1895 and 1900. They were beaten by a dramatic last minute goal by Cavan in 1935 when it appeared they were back in the All-Ireland final. And although they never won another Munster Championship, Browne's superb goal against Kerry in a match Tipp might have won in 1997 and the defeat of Clare and stubborn Munster final performance in 1998 showed that they have not lost the aspiration. Tipperary have not beaten Kerry in a Championship match since 1928 nor Cork since 1944, but the Minor footballers went to the All-Ireland final in 1984 and the under-21s were beaten in a replayed Munster final in 1987.
Honours
Bibliography
- Tipperary's GAA Story by Seamus J King 1935-1984, 1988.
- Tipperary's GAA Story by Philip Canon Fogarty, Tipperary Star, 1960,
- The Tipp Revival: The Keating Years by Seamus Leahy, Gill & MacMillan, 1995. ISBN 0-7171-2329-4
- Babs: The Michael Keating Story by Michael Keating & Donal Kennan, Storm Books, 1996, ISBN 1-901055-00-0
- Tour Of The Tipperary Hurling Team To America in 1925, by Thomas Kenny:, London, George Roberts, 1928.
- GAA History Of Cashel And Rosegreen: 1884-1984 by Seamus J King, 1985.
- Tipperary's Bord Na N-og by Seamus J King, Tipperary County Board 1991.
- A Lifetime In Hurling by Tommy Doyle and Raymond Smith 1955.
- Beyond The Tunnell by Nicky English and Vincent Hogan 1996.
External links
- Tipperary GAA Fan site
- Tipperary on Hoganstand.com
- National and provincial titles won by Tipperary teams
- Club championship winners and winning county captains
- Tipperary GAA site
- Gaelic Survival - Player Profiles Every Inter County Hurler and Footballer, Fantasy GAA Game