Athy GAA
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| Founded: | 1887 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Kildare | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Red and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Geraldine Park, Athy | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 52°59′49″N 6°57′23″W / 52.997069°N 6.956364°WCoordinates: 52°59′49″N 6°57′23″W / 52.997069°N 6.956364°W | ||||||||||||
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Athy GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Athy, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of six county senior football championships.
RIC records from 1890 show that Athy had 70 members, with Revd J Caroll, Martin Doyle, Daniel Foley and B King listed as officers. EJ O'Reilly, Brian Supple and P Lawler attended the 1889 convention. In 1905 Athy rented a field for the Kildare Agricultural Society. The ground staged the replay of the 1908 All Ireland hurling final. Ronan Fenlon is player of the year 5 times in a row. He is from Ballyadams.
Under the guidance of Seamus Malone the club's Gaelic football team was regraded senior in 1921. The team went to the 1923 County final under the guidance of Edward Sapper O'Neill. There they became the last team to end the county scoreless when they lost 2–5 to nil against Naas. With the emergence of Paul Mattews and Tom Mulhall they beat Rathangan to win the 1933 championship in a trial of youth v experience. Paul Mathews got a late goal to equalise the 1934 final and Athy won the replay under the captaincy of John Joe Murphy. Athy came back and won a disappointing 1937 county final against Sarsfields, having been eliminated on a walk-over by Raheens and reinstated. In 1942 Athy won another replayed final against Carbury, having trailed at half-time in the drawn match 0–4 to nil and having seemingly blown their chance when Pat Mulhall missed a 14-yard free. An early Athy goal in the replay set them on course for victory. Athy's last county final for thirty years was that of 1946 when the weather, and then the "save the harvest" campaign caused the county final to be postponed twice. In between they lost two semi-finals against Ellistown, and were shocked by near neighbours Rheban in 1945. In the 1950s DannyFlood held the full back position on the Kildare team for ten years. Athy stepped down to intermediate in 1967. Their seven years in the grade saw them lose successive finals in 1969 and 1970, the second to local rivals Rheban and even enter an area team, St. Michael's, in the championship. The return of Mick Carolan, and the emergence of Brian O'Doherty and Pat Shaughnessy all helped bring about a 1974 intermediate championship triumph. But the most exciting prospects for the club seemed to lie in the 1973 Athy CBS and Kildare minor All Ireland teams, back-boned by five Athy players.
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