Kilkenny senior hurling team
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| Irish: | Cill Chainnigh | |
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| Province: | Leinster | |
| Nickname(s): |
The Cats The Stripy Men The Noresiders The Marble City |
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| County colours: |
Black, Amber |
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| Ground(s): | Nowlan Park, Kilkenny | |
| Dominant sport: | Hurling | |
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| NFL: | N/A | |
| NHL: | Division 1A | |
| Hurling Championship: | Liam MacCarthy Cup | |
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | |
| Camogie: | O'Duffy Cup | |
| Standard kit | ||
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Black, Amber
The Kilkenny County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Kilkenny GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Coiste Cill Chainnigh) is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Kilkenny. The county board has its head office and main grounds at Nowlan Park and is also responsible for Kilkenny inter-county teams in all codes at all levels. The Kilkenny branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1887.
In hurling, the dominant sport in the county, Kilkenny compete annually in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, which they have won thirty-six times, the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship, which they have won seventy times, and the National Hurling League, which they have won seventeen times. Brian Cody has been manager of the Kilkenny senior hurling team since the 1999 championship. Mark Bergin will be senior hurling captain for the 2017 season.
Kilkenny is the most successful county in the game of hurling, the team has won the All-Ireland Championship 36 times as of 2015 and has won the provincial Leinster Championship on 71 occasions as of 2016.
In 1922 Kilkenny won their sixteenth Leinster title before later lining out in the All-Ireland final against Tipperary. In an exciting game Tipperary were winning by three points with three minutes to go, but Kilkenny fought back to score two goals to secure the victory. It would be forty-five years before Kilkenny would beat Tipperary in the championship again. Further Leinster titles soon followed, however: Galway accounted for ‘the Cats’ in the All-Ireland semi-finals. In 1926 Kilkenny faced Cork on a snow-covered Croke Park in the All-Ireland final, however, victory on that occasion went to ‘the Rebels’.
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