Glenswilly GAA

Glenswilly GAA (Irish: C.L.G. Gleann tSúilí) is a GAA club based in Glenswilly, County Donegal, Ireland. Most noted for winning the Donegal Senior Football Championship in 2011, 2013 and 2016, the team has fielded players like All-Ireland winning captain Michael Murphy. The club's chairman is Michael Murphy.[3][4]

Glenswilly GAA
C.L.G. Gleann tSúilí
Founded:1982
County:Donegal
Nickname:The Glen men[1]
Colours:Green, white and yellow
Grounds:Pairc Naomh Columba[2]
Playing kits
Standard colours

History

The present club was founded in 1982.[5] A teenage Manus McFadden arranged a meeting at Foxhall of Glenswillyites who were interested in forming a team, with Joe Kelly, Roger McDaid, Fr Eamon Crossan, Finbar Glackin, Jimmy Joe McGinley and chair Eddie McDevitt (who has since died).[6]

Glenswilly reached their first ever Senior County Final in 2007, where they lost to near neighbours St Eunan's 0–12 to 1–3.

In 2011, they won the Donegal Senior Football Championship for the first time, with a 1–8 to 0–9 defeat of Naomh Mícheál in the final.[7][8][9]

On 25 September 2012, the Donegal senior team—fresh from winning the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final—were scheduled to visit Glenswilly; however, the visit was postponed due to time constraints which arose due the huge crowds around the county eager to catch a glimpse of the team.[10][11][12] The team eventually visited Glenswilly on 27 September.[13][14][15]

In 2013, the club rebuffed allegations that they forced children into GAA jerseys.[3] Later that year they hosted the 2013 All-Ireland Football Series launch, held following confirmation of the four provincial winners.[16][17] That year they won their second Donegal Senior Football Championship and progressed to the final of the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, which they lost to Ballinderry.[18][19]

Glenswilly's success at senior level is in stark contrast to that (or indeed lack thereof) of nearby Termon, another little rural Donegal countryside club to have made head way at senior level in recent times. Termon and Glenswilly both operate in the shadow of the mighty St Eunan's; however, while Glenswilly responded to their 2007 Donegal Senior Football Championship Final loss by winning in 2011, Termon responded to their 2003 loss by losing the final again in 2008 and then sliding rapidly into Division 3 and the Intermediate Championship.[20]

Honours

Football
  • Ulster Senior Club Football Championship:
    • Runner-up (1): 2013[21]
  • Donegal Senior Football Championship:
  • Ulster Intermediate Club Football Championship:
    • Runner-up (1): 2005
  • Donegal Intermediate Football Championship:
    • Winner (1): 2005
  • Donegal Senior B Football Championship:
    • Winner (1): 2015.
    • Donegal Senior C Football Championship:
    • Winners (2): 2016, 2017
    • Donegal Senior C Football Championship:
  • Donegal Junior A&B Football Championship:
    • Runner-up (1): Junior A Finalists 1987, 2000
    • Winner (1): Junior B Champions 1984
    • Runner-up (1): Junior B Finalists 2014
  • Donegal All County League Divisions:
    • Winner (2): Division Two 2007, 2013
    • Winner (3): Division Four 1989, 1993, 2000
  • Comortas Peile Na Gaeltacht Tir Conaill:
    • Winner (1): 2011

Other
  • Donegal Ladies Intermediate Football Championship:
    • Winner (1): 2007
  • Donegal Ladies Junior Championship:
    • Winner (1): 2006
  • Donegal Ladies Junior B Championship:
    • Winner (1): 2017
    • Runner-up (1) 2016
  • Donegal Scór Na Óg Nuachleas:
    • Winner (11): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012
    • Runner-up (1) 2015
  • Ulster Scór Na Óg Nuachleas:
    • Winner (5): 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011
  • All-Ireland Scór Na Óg Nuachleas:
    • Winner (1): 2008
    • Runner-up (3): 2003, 2006, 2011

Notable players

Notable managers
  • Michael Canning — Glenswilly senior team manager 2016
  • Manus Kelly — led Glenswilly to a Senior C Championship win in 2016[24]
  • Gary "The Whale" McDaid — Glenswilly senior team manager 2011, 2013; Donegal under-20 football team manager 2017
  • Michael McGeehin — 2001 JFL coach

References
  1. "Molloy hopes Ardara can win relegation four-pointer". Donegal News. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016. The 1992 All-Ireland winning captain is well aware of the confidence the Glen men will have received from that victory, but they are gunning for an upset.
  2. "Major test for Eunan's minors". Donegal Democrat. Johnston Press. 11 December 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2008. The calendar year of 2008 has brought a clean sweep of adult triumphs for the club from the Cathedral town, with their minor championship victory in Glenswilly's Pairc Naomh Columba, over St Michael's being supplemented by successes for the seniors, reserves and junior B teams.
  3. "Glenswilly hit out at jersey ban rumours". Hogan Stand. 1 February 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
  4. Cahill, Jackie (21 October 2011). "Glenswilly boycott threat over Murphy". Irish Independent. Independent News & Media. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  5. "Club History". Glenswilly GAA. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  6. Foley, Alan (24 January 2012). "Founding father McFadden goes back to his roots". Donegal Democrat. Johnston Press. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  7. "Classic Murphy goal gives Glenswilly first senior county championship". Donegal Democrat. Johnston Press. 2 October 2011. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  8. "St Michaels Wins County Championship for Glenswilly". Donegal Daily. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  9. "Murphy is the star as Glenswilly triumph". The Irish Times. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  10. "Details revealed for Sam Maguire's visit to Letterkenny". Donegal Daily. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  11. "Sam on tour – where you can see the team today". Donegal Daily. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  12. "Exhausted players facing four-hour delays in county tour". Donegal Daily. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  13. "Sam on tour today – Times and schedules here". Donegal Daily. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  14. "Breaking news: Donegal team due in Buncrana at 10.15PM". Donegal Daily. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  15. "Breaking news: Captain Murphy on way to Glenswilly for 11.30PM". Donegal Daily. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2012. The Donegal team are on their last leg of the World Tour of Donegal.
  16. "All-Ireland Football Series 2013 Launched". GAA.ie. 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  17. "All-Ireland Series launched at Glenswilly GAA club". Donegal Daily. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  18. "Ballinderry 1–13 Glenswilly 2-06". RTÉ Sport. Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 1 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  19. "Live: Glenswilly v Ballinderry Shamrocks Ulster senior club final". Donegal Now. 1 December 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  20. Foley, Alan (5 January 2012). "The emigration question for Donegal GAA". Donegal Democrat. Johnston Press. Retrieved 5 January 2012. They are essentially two of the younger clubs in the county, in an era when the powerbase has shifted from south to north. Three years ago Termon were in the Raidio na Gaeltachta SFC final against St Eunan's. This calendar year, though, will see them in Division Three and competing in intermediate football, while Glenswilly are senior county champions. A gulf has grown between the previously inseparable twins.
  21. "Ballinderry's 12-year wait is over". Irish Examiner. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  22. "Donegal SFC final: Murphy delivers man-of-the-match display". Hogan Stand. 21 October 2013. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
  23. "Donegal SFC final: Murphy leads by example". Hogan Stand. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  24. McNulty, Chris (24 June 2019). "Declan Bonner pays tribute to Manus Kelly on day of 'mixed emotions'". Retrieved 24 June 2019. Kelly was deeply immersed in Glenswilly GAA club and was managed[sic] them to a Senior C Championship win in 2016. Kelly was a club-mate of Donegal captain Michael Murphy.
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