Bantry Blues is a Gaelic football club based in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. The club is affiliated with Cork GAA and to the Carbery division. The club has always been primarily a Gaelic football club, but has fielded hurling teams also. In 2010, the hurling section was reformed.
History
The club was founded in 1887.
Honours
- Cork Senior Football Championship Winners (2) 1995, 1998 Runners Up: 1909,1981, 2001
- Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship Runners-Up (2) 2022, 2023
- Cork Intermediate Football Championship Winners (6) 1912, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1975, 1993, Runners Up: 1933, 1937
- Cork Junior Football Championship Winners: (2) 1928, 1972,
- Cork Under-21 Football Championship Winners (2) 1993, 1994
- Cork Minor Football Championship Runners-Up: 1941, 1979, 2009
- Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Runners-Up 2015[1]
- West Cork Junior A Football Championship Winners: (9) 1928, 1932, 1944, 1946, 1947, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1985 Runners-Up 1931, 1937, 1947, 1961, 1967, 1971
- West Cork Junior B Football Championship: Winners (1) 1974, Runners-Up: 1972, 1973
- Carbery Junior A Hurling Championship Runners Up (1) 1952
- West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship: Winners (5) 1972, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2023 Runners Up: 1961, 2011, 2021
- West Cork Junior C Football Championship: Winners (2) 1988, 2010 Runners-Up: 1980
- West Cork Junior D Football Championship: Winners (2) 2008, 2013
- West Cork Minor A Football Championship: Winners (16): 1941, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2007 Runners-Up 2008,2017
- West Cork Under-21 Football Championship: Winners (10) 1972, 1978, 1979, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2012,[2] 2024 Runners-Up: 1969, 1980, 1983, 1988, 1990
Notable players
- Declan Barron 1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner. Two time All-Star winner. Cork – Football Team of the Century and Millennium member.
- Donal Hunt 1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner. 1972 Railway Cup winning captain.
- Mark O'Connor All-Star winner
- Philip Clifford 1999 Young Footballer of the Year and All-Star winner.
- Graham Canty 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning captain. Three time All-Star winner.
- Ruairi Deane 2013 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship winning captain.
References
- ^ "Shanballymore joy as brave Bantry fall just short". Irish Examiner. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
- ^ "Bantry's lethal attack too much for Castlehaven". Irish Examiner. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
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