Fintona Pearses GAC
Fintona Pearses (Irish: Fionntamhnach Na Piarsaigh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a member of the Tyrone GAA county board and is named after the Irish poet and revolutionary, Patrick Pearse.
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| Founded: | 1917 | ||||||||
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| County: | Tyrone | ||||||||
| Nickname: | The Pearses | ||||||||
| Colours: | Green and White | ||||||||
| Grounds: | St. Lawrence's Park | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°29′34.86″N 7°19′43.09″W | ||||||||
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The club primarily concentrates on Gaelic football, with hurling teams fielded at youth level. Its home venue is called St. Lawrence's Park, located just outside the village on the Tattymoyle Road.[1]
As of 2021, the senior Gaelic football team competes in Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football League[2] as well as the Tyrone Junior Football Championship.
A separate Ladies Gaelic football club, also called Fintona Pearses, is based at the same venue.[3]
History
Fintona Pearses was founded in September 1916 and despite some stop-starts in the 1920s, the club has been continuously active since 1932. At the time of founding there was already a club in the village, Fintona Davitts, which had been in existence since 1907 and the two sides met each other in competition twice in 1917. The Davitts club however went out of existence shortly afterwards.
Fintona was also home to the first camogie club in Tyrone, called Fintona Rose Kavanaghs which was founded around the same time as Fintona Davitts.
Honours
- Tyrone Senior Football Championship Winners (2): 1913/14¹, 1938
- Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship Winners (1): 1978
- Tyrone Junior Football Championship Winners (1): 1975
¹ (1913/14 Senior Football Championship won by the Fintona Davitts club)
The club won the Tyrone Senior Football Championship in 1938, defeating Cookstown in the final. The last appearance in the final was in 1979 when they lost out to Carrickmore.
A Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship title was claimed in 1978 defeating Killyclogher in the final and the Tyrone Junior Football Championship title in 1975 after beating Gortin in the decider.
The club has the distinction of being the only one in Tyrone to have won the Senior, Intermediate, Junior, and all three Reserve Football Championships in its existence.
References
- "Fintona Pearses GAA Grounds - Google Maps". maps.google.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- "ACFL Division 3 2021 - Tyrone GAA". tyronegaa.ie. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
- "Fintona Pearses Ladies GFC (Facebook page)". facebook.com. Retrieved 29 October 2021.