Cúchulainn's GFC (Cavan)
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| Founded: | 1969 | ||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Cavan | ||||||||||||||||
| Colours: | White and Blue | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Edward Carolan Community Park, Cavan | ||||||||||||||||
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Cúchulainn's are a Senior Gaelic football club from County Cavan in Ireland. They are affiliated to Cavan GAA.
From the inception of the club, on Thursday 18 December 1969, CLG Cuchulainn made its presence felt in Division 1 of the Cavan senior league and senior championship. In the first round of the 1970 Cavan senior championship, Cuchulainns beat Cornafean after a replay. The club's participation in its initial championship came to an end when beaten by Baileborough on a score line of 0-9 to 0-8 at the quarter final stage of the championship in Breffni Park, on Sunday 30 August 1970.
In May 1971 Cuchulainns met the vastly more experienced Crosserlough in the 1970 league final. Incidentally Crosserlough were on their way to winning a record breaking seven in a row senior championship. The Anglo Celt reports that Crosserlough gave clear notice that they were still a force in Cavan football, when they won yet another Cavan title, this time the 1970 league, when beating Cuchulainns by 2-12 to 2-8 in an entertaining match at Breifne Park on Sunday last.
The 1970s ended with the club relegated to intermediate status as a number of the older players retired. On the playing field then, it was a decade of unfulfilled promise and disappointment, but by no means failure.
If the 1970s saw a gradual decline in the playing fortunes of the club, the 1980s have seen a gradual improvement as the successful juveniles came through to adult level. Cuchulainns did have a good championship run in 1980 when they overcame the challenge of Killygarry after a replay to reach the intermediate championship final. Like the drawn match, the replay was a very close encounter and the possibility of extra time loomed until Aidan Connell snatched a point in the dying moments of the game. The match itself was fast and exiting, but both sets of forwards found scores hard to come by. The final score was 0-10 to 1-6. The final was to be another disappointing day for Cuchulainns, with their opponents Munterconnaught gaining their first intermediate championship title. The Anglo Celt reports that both teams played with resolute determination in a tough exciting match, the final score being 2-4 to 0-7. Munterconnaught the more balanced outfit settled quickly. Cuchulainns relying heavily on Ray Carolan found it harder to get into their stride and it was indeed the second half before they really got into the game. However, with M. Hetherton and O. Stanley in commanding form in midfield, Munterconnaught laid the foundations for victory. In 1983 the club reached its lowest ebb when relegated to Division 3
In 1985 Cuchulainns gained promotion to division 2 and contested both the league and intermediate championship finals. The intermediate championship final was reached by beating literally the best teams in the competition. One only has to remember the thrilling games against Kildallan, Denn and Killeshandra. Gowna, the opponents in the final, proved once again to be the bogey team. Cuchulainns fought hard to get into this game but with Gowna dominating midfield there was to be no joy for the large group of supporters from the parish.
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