Mattock Rangers GAA
Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Republic of Ireland.[1][2][3][4]
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Founded: | 1952 | ||||||||
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County: | Louth | ||||||||
Nickname: | The Buzzards | ||||||||
Colours: | Red and Black | ||||||||
Grounds: | Páirc Mattock, School Lane, Collon | ||||||||
Coordinates: | 53.774747°N 6.481701°W | ||||||||
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History
The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.[5] In 2020, the club adopted the Kells Road Buzzard as its mascot, following a series of attacks in a local beauty spot.
They won a Louth Junior Football Championship county football title in 1961 and a Louth Intermediate Football Championship title in 1982. Mattock lost their first four Louth Senior Football Championship finals, in 1973, 1976, 1962 and 2001. Senior success finally came in 2002; in that year, Mattock Rangers reached the final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Dunshaughlin.[6] They have won three more senior titles since then.
The hurlers have never been county champions, but reached the final of the Louth Senior Hurling Championship in 2011.[7]
Honours
Gaelic football
- Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship: Winners (1) 2019[8]
- Louth Senior Football Championship (4): 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010
- Louth Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1982, 2019
- Louth Junior Football Championship (1): 1961
Notable players
- Mark Lenehan
- Adrian Reid
- Shane “Sloth” Maguire
- Twinny
- “Sourdough” Sean Gilsenan
Notable supporters
- Fergal “Slips” Sheils
- Skill’s friends Sam and Davy
References
- "Mattock Rangers GAA". www.facebook.com.
- "Mattock Rangers (@mattockrangers) - Twitter". twitter.com.
- "mattock rangers – Louth GAA". louthgaa.ie.
- "LADIES GAA - Nikki helps herself to a hat-trick as Mattock see off the Finbarrs". 12 March 2018.
- "History". mattockrangers.ie.
- "Relentless Dunshaughlin a bridge too far for Mattock - Independent.ie".
- "PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News". pressreader.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
- "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.