Austin Stacks
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| Founded: | 1917 | ||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Kerry | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Rock, Rockies, Rock Street, The Stacks |
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| Colours: | Black & Amber | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Connolly Park, Rock Street, Tralee. |
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| Coordinates: | 52°16′13.08″N 9°41′46.35″W / 52.2703000°N 9.6962083°WCoordinates: 52°16′13.08″N 9°41′46.35″W / 52.2703000°N 9.6962083°W | ||||||||||||||||
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Austin Stacks is a hurling and Gaelic football club based in Tralee in County Kerry, Ireland. It has more All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals and GAA All-Stars than any other GAA club in Ireland. They have many notable players at the top of the rock such as Joe Barrett, Mikey Sheehy, Ger Power, John O'Keeffe, Cork's Dinny Long, Pa Laide, William Kirby, Kieran Donaghy (who won player of the year after leading Kerry to success in 2006) and Daniel Bohan. The club is named after Austin Stack, Irish revolutionary and captain of the All-Ireland winning Kerry Gaelic football team of 1904. They are the only club in Kerry to have won Senior County Championships in both Hurling & Football, including doubles in 1928 & 1931. Currently the club have one players on the Kerry Senior Panel; Kieran Donaghy(4 All-Ireland medals] Daniel Bohan last appeared for Kerry in 2013 and is a holder of three All-Ireland Medals.
Stacks are currently in Division 1 of the Kerry County League while they also have a "B" team in Division 5.
The club has prospered off the field in recent years, the new state of the art dressing rooms were opened in 2005. Along with the dressing rooms the building contains a function room, and a top quality gym. In 2015 a new pitch was laid on the Nuns field site and an additional juvenile pitch was added. The club most notable recent success came in capturing the Kerry and Munster championships of 2014 under the stewardship of Stephan Stack. Town rivals include Kerins O'Rahilly's, John Mitchels, St.Pats, Ballymacelligott, Churchill and Na Gaeil. The black and amber colours of the club are known throughout Ireland. The current chairman of the club is Liam Lynch.
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