Naomh Mearnóg CLG
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| Founded: | 1975 | ||||||||
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| County: | Dublin | ||||||||
| Nickname: | Mearnógs | ||||||||
| Colours: | Black and Amber | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Mhearnóg, Portmarnock | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°26′16.18″N 6°08′39.12″W / 53.4378278°N 6.1442000°WCoordinates: 53°26′16.18″N 6°08′39.12″W / 53.4378278°N 6.1442000°W | ||||||||
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Naomh Mearnóg is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the parish of Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland. The club was founded in 1975 and now fields a total of 35 teams in football, hurling, camogie and ladies' football. These include 3 adult football teams, 3 adult hurling teams, 2 adult camogie teams and 2 adult ladies' football teams. They are one of only two Dublin clubs who compete at senior level in all four codes. They also cater for a large number of juvenile teams.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, there were two grades of adult inter-club football: senior and junior. It was the same at inter-county level. However, the interest in inter-county football was nothing like it is nowadays, most of the focus was on the inter-club scene.
In the late 1920s, there was a temporary break-up of Innisfails' junior football team in Balgriffin, and as a result it was decided to form a team in Portmarnock. At that time, Portmarnock would have been what is now called 'Old Portmarnock'. The population was sparse and if a team lost a few players it found it very difficult to survive. The team was named St. Marnocks after a contemporary of St. Patrick, who first introduced Christianity to Portmarnock. The team wore a black jersey with an amber sash, the colours of which were inspired by the crest of the Jameson family, of whiskey fame, who lived locally.
Success came to the newly formed team quite quickly. In their first year of competition, they were runners-up in Division 3 of the Fingal League. In the following years, they won the Fingal League Division 1 on two occasions and the Fingal Championship once. During those years, 7-a-side tournaments were very popular and drew huge crowds to the venues. St. Marnocks were beaten in extra time by St. Margarets in the final of the Swords tournament played on a Monday in August, 1930. They won the Fintan Lalor tournament, beating Erins Isle in the final. This final was played at ‘The Thatch’, where the present Catholic Church stands in Whitehall. Quite often, St. Marnocks travelled to their ‘away’ games by train. The Club Secretary would fill in a form by the Thursday before the game and the team consequently travelled at a reduced rate.
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