Club Gaa: | Mountmellick GAA |
Irish: | Móinteach Milic(the land of the bog beside the river) |
Province: | Leinster |
Founded: | 1900 |
County: | Laois |
Nickname: | The Valley |
Colours: | Blue and white |
Grounds: | Pairc Acragar |
Coordinates: | 53.1038°N -7.3039°W |
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Mountmellick GAA (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Móinteach Milic) is a Gaelic Athletic Association Gaelic Football and Hurling club in the town of Mountmellick in County Laois, Ireland. It fields teams in both football and hurling from juvenile up to adult.
At adult level, the club is a dual football and hurling club. Mountmellick field football and hurling teams at Intermediate and junior B.They are the only hurling club in the Mountmellick parish.
The club's first Laois Intermediate Football Championship (IFC) title was won in 1968.[1] In 2006, Mountmellick beat Annanough GAA to win the Laois IFC for the second time, after 38 years.[2] They were relegated from the Senior Football Championship in 2017 and have competed in the Intermediate Football Championship since 2018.[3] They were relegated from the Senior Football Championship in 2017 and have competed in the Intermediate Football Championship since 2018.[4]
Mountmellick has won the Laois Junior Football Championship five times,[5] and the Laois Minor Football Championship twice, in 1975 and 1977.
Mountmellick has also won the Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship on one occasion, in 1967,[6] with five wins in the Laois Junior Hurling Championship.[7] Mountmellick are the only Laois club to have won both Junior titles in the one year (1941). They came close to winning both intermediate titles in one year (1967), winning the hurling and losing the football to Arles in a replay.
In football they reached finals (2021, 2022), losing to Park–Ratheniska GAA.[8] [9]
In 2022 they lost the hurling final to Clough–Ballacolla GAA.[10]
Competition | Years Won | |
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Laois Intermediate Football Championship | 1968, 2006 | |
Laois Junior Football Championships | 1921, 1929, 1941, 1966, 1972 | |
Laois Junior B Football Championship | 1973, 2006 | |
Laois Under-21 Football Championship | 1996, 2012*, 2014* | |
Laois Under-20 B FootballChampionship | 2023[11] | |
Laois Minor Football Championship | 1975, 1977 |
Competition | Years Won | |
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Laois Intermediate Hurling Championship | 1967 | |
Laois Junior Hurling Championship | 1930, 1935, 1941, 1961, 2001, 2018 | |
Laois Junior B Hurling Championship | 2012, 2017 | |
Laois Junior C Hurling Championship | 2017 | |
Laois Minor Hurling Championship | 1966, 2014 | |
Laois Minor B Hurling Championship | 2021[12] |
Hurling
Years | Name | |
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2022-2024 | Damien Carter[13] | |
2021 | James Young[14] | |
2020 | Fergal Cuddy[15] | |
2019 | Matty Mahon | |
2017-2018 | Chris Hartnett[16] |
Football
Year | Name | |
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2023-2024 | Colm Coss | |
2021-2022 | Gordon Lalor[17] |