Longford GAA


The Longford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Longford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford county teams.
The county football team won its only National [Football League (Ireland)|National Football League] title in 1966 with a one-point victory over Galway in the National Football League (Ireland)|Home Final] and an aggregate win over New York in the Final. The team won its only Leinster [Senior Football Championship] title in 1968, with a 3-9 to 1-4 win over Laois.

Clubs

The county board oversees 22 GAA clubs, the lowest number of any county in Ireland. The current total of 22 clubs is down from 24 in 2009 which at the time was the smallest in the country, below Sligo, which had 26 back then and now has 23 clubs.
Football | Hurling | Handball | Camogie

Three hurling clubs exist within the above list of GAA clubs:

Clubs

11 clubs contest the Longford Senior Football Championship.
Killoe Young Emmets are the current Longford Senior Football champions.
Mullinalaghta St Columba's won the Leinster Senior [Club Football Championship] in 2018.

County team

Longford won the National Football League in 1966, then the 1968 Leinster Senior Football Championship. The county has never won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Hurling

Clubs

3 clubs contest the Longford Senior Hurling Championship.
Longford Slashers are the current Longford Senior Hurling champions.

County team

Like most of its neighbours, Longford have struggled to compete with the bigger counties as they only have three Hurling teams in the county, Slashers, Wolfe Tones and Clonguish. The county team won the National League Division 3 title in 2002, In 2005 & 2006 they won the Leinster Shield. They won the Lory Meagher Cup, for the first time, in Croke Park on 3 July 2010 and won on a scoreline 1 – 20 to Donegal 1 – 12.
Liam Griffin has said the GAA should be ashamed of itself over its failure in the promotion of hurling.

Leinster SHC

Longford competed in just two seasons, with a walkover to Wexford in the 1902 season and a loss to Westmeath in the 1903 season. After 1904 Longford played in Junior Hurling Championship. Longford remains the only county in Leinster never to win a provincial hurling championship at any grade.

Matches