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| Founded: | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Dublin | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | Crokes | ||||||||||||||||
| Colours: | Purple and gold | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc de Burca, Stillorgan Silverpark, Leopardstown | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°17′14.50″N6°11′58.93″W / 53.2873611°N 6.1997028°W /53.2873611; -6.1997028 | ||||||||||||||||
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Kilmacud Crokes (Irish:Cill Mochuda Na Crócaigh) is a largeGaelic Athletic Association club located inStillorgan, Dublin, Ireland.
Kilmacud GAA club was formed in 1959 following a public meeting in Saint Laurence's Hall, where Stillorgan shopping centre now stands. The first meeting of the club took place on 12 March 1959.[1] Sixty people attended the meeting and donated a shilling each, meaning the club madeIR£3.30 on the night. The club decided to use green-and-white jerseys, but they later decided to use the gold-and-purple colours, some say because of the local school Scoil Lorcain Naofa who also use gold and purple,[1] others say it was because blue are the colours of thecrocus.
In 1963 the club purchased a6+1⁄2-acre site behind theOrmonde Cinema as a permanent home pitch for themselves, Páirc de Burca, and in 1965 the adjoiningGlenalbyn House was bought. In April 1966, Crokes hurling club joined up with Kilmacud football club.[1] The name of the joint football/hurling teams was changed from Kilmacud G.A.A. club to Kilmacud Crokes G.A.A. club in 1971. In 1972, St. Benburbs Football Club ofClonskeagh joined with Kilmacud Crokes.[1][2] St. Benburbs FC was famous because the first-ever All-Ireland Final was played on their ground in Clonskeagh in 1887. In 1973, acamogie section of the club was set up[1] and in February 1996 aLadies' Gaelic football Section was set up.[1]
The club has installed an astro-turf GAA pitch atthe paddock, an area formerly used as a carpark/training ground, a venture which was finished in September 2006, and constructed indoor and outdoor hurling walls during 2007.
The current football Senior team is managed by Robbie Brennan and Johnny Magee.Anthony Daly is the current hurling coach.
Kilmacud Crokes are also known for hosting theSevens football and hurling competitions each year. Separate competitions are held on the weekends of the various All-Ireland Finals in September.[3]For example, the Football competition is held on the Saturday before theAll-Ireland Football final and the Hurling competition is held on the Saturday before theAll-Ireland Hurling final. The Sevens were first played in 1973[3] and have since become an integral part of the All-Ireland weekends and feature on sports news programmes. Discussions and previews of the All-Ireland final on the following day are the subject of a lot of the media broadcasts.[citation needed]
The competitions run from the morning through to the evening. The games are played at various locations in and aroundStillorgan includingGlenalbyn,Deer Park,St Benildus College,St Olaf's andSilverpark. The finals are always played in Glenalbyn. The games are played with teams of seven players with two-halves of ten minutes each. Erin's Own ofCork and Castlewellan ofDown were crowned Hurling and Football Sevens Champions for 2006 respectively.Longstone of Down won the 2007 football competition.
Kilmacud Crokes won theAll-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final onSt Patrick's Day, 1995 under the management ofTommy Lyons.[2] Kilmacud Crokes, captained by Mick Dillon, beatBellaghy ofDerry with a scoreline of 0–8 to 0–5 in front of 18,544 fans atCroke Park. Mick Pender famously savedDamian Cassidy's (Bellaghy) penalty and won the title for Kilmacud. The game will be remembered as one of the coldest days club football final history.
Another county title followed in 1998. Crokes beatNa Fianna in the final. Wins overJames Stephens,Kilkenny andStradbally,Laois set up one of the most memorableLeinster club finals in recent years. Crokes played three games againstÉire Óg,Carlow; they eventually lost however.
Crokes won the Dublin championship in 2004. Crokes were nearly disqualified from the 2005 championship due to confusion over the eligibility of playerMark Vaughan. Crokes had defeated 2003 champions,St Brigid's, it was claimed thatMark Vaughan was ineligible for the tie. Crokes claimed that they had received prior approval that Vaughan could play from the Dublin county board, who said theDublin Championships andThe Leinster Championships were different competitions. The Leinster council overruled the Dublin county board. St Brigid's offered Crokes a replay under one condition, that Vaughan could not play. He scored six points in Crokes' original one-point victory over Brigid's. He had received the red card that caused the ban in the previous years defeat toPortlaoise. TheDRA eventually awarded Crokes the match after agreeing that the two competitions were different. By this time Crokes' side of the draw was three games behind the other side of the draw. Kilmacud went on to win the 2005Dublin Championship following a comprehensive 1–14 to 0–09 victory overNa Fianna and added to their success by winning the Leinster Championship following a 0–10 to 0–09 victory over Newbridge atNavan. Crokes were defeated in the All-Ireland semi-final by Salthill-Knocknacarra on a scoreline of 1–09 to 1–07. Mark Vaughan was shown a straight red card, having already been on a yellow, for striking a Salthill player. In 2006 and 2007, Crokes narrowly lost out in the semi-final stage of theDublin championship. They lost toUCD andSt Vincents, respectively. On 27 October 2008, Kilmacud won their sixthDublin Senior Football Championship atParnell Park. On 7 December 2008 Kilmacud won the Leinster Senior Football Championship for the third time, beating Rhode of Offaly by a scoreline of 2–07 to 1–07. They ensured their place in the All-Ireland final with a two-goal victory over Corofin of Galway on 21 February, and eventually defeatedCrossmaglen Rangers ofArmagh to win the final. Kilmacud also went on to win the Dublin Senior Championship with a victory over St Brigid's in 2010, before bowing out in the All-Ireland series toCrossmaglen Rangers at the semi-final stage.
Kilmacud Crokes won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final in2023 defeating Derry championsGlen 1-11 to 1-09.[4][5] However the match caused significant controversy as Kilmacud had an extra player on the pitch during the last play of the game, breaching rule 2.1 of the GAA rulebook. The GAA ordered a replay of the final after Glen lodged an objection.[6] However after Kilmacud lodged an appeal against a replay, Glen withdrew from the appeals process, saying that they "do not believe the conditions exist for a replay", resulting in Kilmacud retaining their title.[7][8]
In 2023, Kilmacud made history by winning 3 in-a-row Leinster titles beating Naas (KE) by a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-10. They are the first club to do achieve this in Leinster. They went on to narrowly lose to Glen in the semi-final with a scoreline of 2-10 to 1-14 in a weather affected match.[9]
Kilmacud Crokes has won the All-Ireland Football Féile final three times, the first of these coming in 2003, the second in 2008 and the third in 2019. The hurlers added to the club's success with an All-Ireland Hurling Féile of their own in 2005. This hurling victory was the first time in the club's history that they had won the Dublin Hurling Féile and only the second time a Dublin Club had won the All-Ireland Féile. In 2014 the hurlers won Dublin and All-Ireland Hurling Féile titles.
In 2008 the U-14A hurling team again reached the All-Ireland Féile group stages, but after a tough match in the pouring rain they lost to James Stephens from Kilkenny. The U-14A footballers enjoyed more success and emerged victorious as All-Ireland Winners in Cavan in July. The ladies U-14 team also made it to their final also in Cavan, only to be beaten in the end by Naomh Michael.
A full table of results is available here:Football Feile 2008 Results
Kilmacud Crokes won theDublin Minor Hurling Championship final in 2007. They won the title for the third time in the club's history when they beatNa Fianna in a replay. The manager of the team was formerTipperary player,Richard Stakelum. A fourth title was added in 2009 when the Pat Halpin managed team that had won the All Ireland Feile in 2005 defeated St Vincents in the final. The club won their thirdDublin Minor Hurling Championship in four years in November 2010 when a previously unfancied Crokes minor team capped an impressive championship run by beating favourites Ballyboden St. Endas in the final by 9 points.
| Preceded by | Dublin Senior Champions 1992 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Dublin Senior Champions 1994 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Dublin Senior Champions 1998 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Dublin Senior Champions 2004–2005 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Dublin Senior Champions 2008 | Succeeded by |
