NUI Galway GAA

NUI Galway GAA comprises the Gaelic football and hurling teams of NUI Galway.

NUI Galway G.A.A.

C.L.G. Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh
Founded:
County:	Galway
Colours:	Maroon and White
Grounds:	Dangan Sportsgrounds
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Connacht champions Galway champions Football: 0 0 3 Hurling: 0 0 0

Competitions in which they feature include the Sigerson Cup,[1] Fitzgibbon Cup,[2] and Walsh Cup.[3]

Historically, they have won the Galway Senior Football Championship and contested the FBD Insurance League.[4]

They are the second most prolific winners of the Sigerson Cup.[5]

Honours

Competition	Wins	Years won
Sigerson Cup	22	1912, 1922, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 2003[6][7]
Fitzgibbon Cup[8]	10	1919, 1926, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1970, 1977, 1980,[9] 2010[10]
Galway Senior Football Championship	3	1933, 1934, 1937
Hodges Figgis Trophy	1	1981[11]
FBD Insurance League	1	2005

Notable players

Football Gareth Bradshaw[12][13] Ger Cafferkey[12] Matthew Clancy (Sigerson Cup winner 2003)[6][7][14] Brendan Colleran (Sigerson Cup winner 2003)[6][7][14] Enda Colleran (Sigerson Cup winning captain 1964) Lorcán Ó Calleráin (Sigerson Cup winning captain 2003)[6][7] Damien Comer[15] Seán Óg De Paor (Sigerson Cup winning captain 1992) Alan Dillon[16][17] Jason Doherty[16][17] Dessie Dolan[6][14][18] Peadár Gardiner[17] Mark Gottsche[12][19] Richie Lee (Sigerson Cup winning captain 1984) Mick Loftus (Sigerson Cup winner)[20] Joe McDonagh[21][22] Colm McFadden (Sigerson Cup winner 2003)[6][7] Gay McManus (Sigerson Cup winner 1980, winning captain 1981) Michael Meehan (Sigerson Cup winner 2003)[6][7][14] Padraig Monaghan (Sigerson Cup winning captain 1980) David O'Gara[12][13] Donie O'Sullivan[20] Tomás Tierney (Sigerson Cup winner 1981 & 1983, winning captain 1984)

Hurling Enda Barrett[9] Daithí Burke[22] Niall Burke[22][23] Conor Cleary[22] John Conlon (scorer of the winning point in the 82nd minute of the final of the 2010 Fitzgibbon Cup)[10] Joe Connolly (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 1977)[22] Joseph Cooney[22] Danny Cullen[24] Barry Daly Cian Dillon[9] Darragh Egan[9] Cyril Farrell (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 1977)[25] Pat Fleury (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 1977)[25] Francis Forde[22] Paul Gordon Tony Griffin[9] John Hanbury[22] Aidan Harte[22] Conor Hayes (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 1977)[25] Séamus Hennessy (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 2010)[26] David Kenny[9] John Lee (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 2010)[10] Seán Loftus[22] Jeffrey Lynskey[22] Joe McDonagh (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 1977)[21][22] Cathal Mannion[22] Pádraic Mannion[22] Stephen Molumphy[9] Jamesie O'Connor[9] Domhnall O'Donovan (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 2010)[9] Colin Ryan[9] Donal Tuohy (Fitzgibbon Cup winner 2010)[9] Conor Whelan[22]

Management

Managers have included:

Football John Maughan (2011, 2012)[27][28] Eoin O'Donnellan (c. 2009)[12][13]

Hurling

References

1. "Tommy Joyce wants higher standards from NUI Galway". Irish Independent. 28 January 2015.
2. "Bobby Duggan fires NUI Galway to victory over UCC in Fitzgibbon Cup". Irish Independent. 5 February 2015.
3. "Kilkenny withdraw from Walsh Cup after bereavement". RTÉ Sport. 22 January 2015.
4. "FBD Connacht League finals home and away". Hogan Stand. 3 October 2005.
5. "NUI Galway see off DIT to advance to first Sigerson Cup final since 2003". Irish Independent. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018. NUIG, the second most prolific winners of the Sigerson Cup, advanced to their first final since 2003 when they held off a DIT comeback in heavy rain at St Loman’s GAA grounds in Mullingar.
6. Foley, Alan (25 August 2012). "Forward motion". Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 17 November 2018. Later that year, he began his studies in Financial Maths and Economics at NUI Galway, winning the All-Ireland Freshers alongside players like Matthew Clancy from Galway, Clare's Mikey O'Dwyer and Mark O'Connell, John Donoghue of Meath and David O'Shaughnessy, a native of Westmeath... "Winning the Sigerson in Cork wasn't something that might've been expected of us at all," McFadden says. "We had Lorcan and Brendan Colleran, Mattie Clancy again and Michael Meehan, who was unreal. Dessie Dolan pulled his hamstring in the quarter-final and missed out but we took in a lad from Mayo, Michéal Keane, who played as a sweeper and was brilliant. They were a good group."
7. "Meehan too hot for UCD". Sunday Independent. 9 March 2003. Inspired by Galway football's rising star Michael Meehan, NUI Galway won their first ... Sigerson Cup championship since 1992 when they edged out UCD in yesterday's final at Páirc Uí Rinn... NUIG drew level five minutes later when Galway prodigy Michael Meehan landed a well executed free from wide on the right.... followed by a wonderful equaliser from lively NUIG corner-forward Colm McFadden... Colm McFadden struck a sweet point after just 15 seconds and Brendan Colleran reduced the deficit to the minimum a minute later.
8. "Hurling: Achievements". Archived from the original on 5 September 2015.
9. "Major Clare influence on NUIG Fitzgibbon campaign". The Clare Champion.
10. "NUI Galway end 30-year wait for Fitzgibbon Cup". 8 March 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
11. The Irish Times, 4 May 1981, p. 3 (reported result as UCG 1-13 Sligo RTC 0-06, with scorers); The Irish Press, 6 May 1981, p. 15 (reported result as UCG 1-13 Sligo RTC 0-06); Irish Independent, 6 May 1981, p. 13 (reported result as UCG 1-12 Sligo RTC 0-06); Connacht Tribune, 8 May 1981, p. 16 & 18 (reported result as UCG 1-13 Sligo RTC 0-08)
12. Kelly, Tom (14 January 2009). "Roscommon denied victory as Bradshaw earns NUI Galway a share of the spoils". Westmeath Independent. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019.
13. Silke, Ray (8 January 2009). "Forget those post-Christmas blues and get back on the road again". Galway Advertiser. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. NUIG's David O'Gara in action from the FBD Insurance Connacht Senior Football league game against Mayo at Dangan on Sunday... Mayo went down to NUIG in Dangan last Sunday with Galway's Gareth Bradshaw really impressing for the students who are managed by Eoin O' Donnellan again this year. Bradshaw is turning into a really top county player and it will be interesting to see where he lines out for Galway in the NFL.
14. "What a year it was!". Hogan Stand. 20 November 2003. "We [Dundalk] then went to NUI Galway [formerly UCG] and put in another great performance against a team that included Matthew Clancy, Michael Meehan and Brendan Colleran of Galway. They also had Dessie Dolan from Westmeath but Dessie missed most of the campaign through injury. When NUI Galway went on to actually win the Sigerson cup out, it put our performance into context.
15. Fallon, John (14 February 2018). "NUI Galway reach first Sigerson final in 15 years". RTÉ Sport. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018.
16. "NUI Galway students and alumni head for Croke Park with Mayo senior football finalists". 17 September 2013. Archived from the original on 17 December 2016. The Mayo squad contains a large number of current and former students including Ger Cafferkey, Jason Doherty, Alan Dillon, Conor O'Shea, Shane McHale, Chris Barrett and Cathal Freeman. Former Inter-County star James Nallen, who is a selector with the Mayo side, is a Chief Technical Officer in NUI Galway's School of Physics.
17. "Gardiner digs deep to bury IT Sligo". Irish Independent. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2011. Mayo's Peadar Gardiner, Alan Dillon and Ronan Rochford inspired NUI Galway to an impressive victory in Ballinode.... Jason Doherty smacked another goal attempt off an upright, but managed to point the rebound. Paul Garvey's pointed free at the other end kept it tight, but Keating's red card a minute later cost IT Sligo dearly, with Fiacra Deasmhunhaigh and Doherty claiming goals inside the 10 minutes that followed.
18. "Kid stars assets not investments". The Irish Times. 1 May 2004. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Across the country, sports scholarships are widely available, from UCC - where Peter Stringer and Frankie Sheehan were recipients - Waterford IT, which had Tipperary All Star Declan Browne, to NUI Galway, who had Westmeath's Dessie Dolan.
19. Foley, Cliona (28 May 2013). "It's boom time for rising Exiles". Irish Independent. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
20. "Mick Loftus". 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 23 December 2018.
21. Connolly, Joe (Autumn 2016). "A sporting tribute". Cois Coiribe. pp. 20–21.
22. "Hurling". Cois Coiribe. Autumn 2017. p. 39.
23. "Cunningham welcomes Galway return of Kavanagh and Callanan". 23 January 2013. Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Cunningham must also plan without players like Niall Burke (NUI Galway) and Jonathan Glynn (UL) who are tied to colleges for the pre-season competitions
24. Ferry, Ryan (4 June 2020). "Team Ulster concept 'worth a look'". Donegal News. p. 52. 'When I was younger, I was hurling with the college (NUIG) at a high level… 'I'm 32 now… I have been coaching our Under 12s with Setanta for the last five or six years as well…
25. Moran, Seán (15 February 2017). "Degrees of neglect: the impossible world of third-level GAA: The compromising of UCD's Fitzgibbon Cup bid another result of current fixture chaos". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 February 2017. The late Joe McDonagh is to be commemorated at the end of this month when his alma mater NUI Galway, formerly UCG, hosts the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend. There will be a dinner on Friday week at which contemporaries from the 1977 Fitzgibbon will honour the memory of the former GAA president, who represented his college in both football and hurling. Publicity for the event includes the information that four members of that UCG side, including McDonagh himself, went on to lead their counties around Croke Park on All-Ireland final day; three of them, Conor Hayes and Pat Fleury who would also manage finalists, and Joe Connolly lifted the Liam MacCarthy. Another member of the team was Cyril Farrell, who managed Galway to back-to-back titles.
26. "NUI Galway take Fitzgibbon Cup title". Irish Examiner. 6 March 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
27. "John Maughan demands end to 'player abuse'". The Belfast Telegraph. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2012. As a former inter-county manager with Clare, Mayo and Fermanagh and current NUI Galway coach, he is well placed to assess a college v county problem, which, he says, could be alleviated by a more streamlined fixtures structure and better communication.
28. "Can't live with him, can't live without him". Irish Independent. 20 June 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2012. Maughan coached NUIG in last year's Sigerson Cup, while he's also with Crossmolina. For the last while, he's been working with the first years in St Gerald's College in Castlebar.