Mayobridge GAA

Mayobridge Gaelic Athletic Association, also called Mayobridge Gaelic Athletic Club or Saint Patrick's Gaelic Athletic Social Club, is a Gaelic football and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland.[1][2][3]

Mayobridge
Cumann Naomh Phádraig, Droichead Mhaigh Eo
Founded:1888
County:Down
Nickname:The 'Bridge
Colours:Sky Blue and Navy
Grounds:St. Patrick's Gaelic Athletic Social Club,
Old Road, Mayobridge
Coordinates:54.182979°N 6.224977°W / 54.182979; -6.224977
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Ulster
champions		 Down
champions
Football: - - 10

History

The club was founded in 1888 as Saint Patrick's Mayobridge and is the oldest in County Down. It was revived in 1906 by the Ancient Order of Hibernians under the name Mayobridge Owen Roes (after Owen Roe O'Neill). Mayobridge won the county title in 1918 and 1919. It closed down for a time in the 1940s and again in the 1960s before reviving. The youth club and later club grounds were opened in 1978.[4]

Mayobridge enjoyed a golden age around the turn of the millennium, winning eight senior county titles in ten years (1999 to 2008) and reaching the final of the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship twice, in 2001 and 2004.

Honours
  • Down Senior Football Championship (10): 1918, 1919, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Down Junior Football Championship (1): 1981
  • Down Minor Football Championship (4): 1980, 1997, 1999, 2008[5]

Notable players

References
  1. "GAA - Mayobridge Parish & Community Website". www.mayobridgeparish.com.
  2. Mendlowitz, Andy (12 November 2007). "Ireland's Professional Amateurs: A Sports Season at Its Purest". iUniverse – via Google Books.
  3. "Mayobridge GAC (@MayobridgeGAC) - Twitter". twitter.com.
  4. "History - C.L.G Droichead Mhaigh Eo".
  5. "HoganStand GAA Football and Hurling". hoganstand.com.
  6. O'Dea, Arthur James. "Watch: 55-Year-Old Down Legend Hits Monstrous Point In County Final".
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