Tuam Stars GAA
| Réalta Thuama | |||||||||
| Founded: | 1887 | ||||||||
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| County: | Galway | ||||||||
| Nickname: | The Stars | ||||||||
| Colours: | Red & White | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Tuam Stadium & Tuam Stars Grounds | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°30′32.32″N 8°50′13.38″W / 53.5089778°N 8.8370500°WCoordinates: 53°30′32.32″N 8°50′13.38″W / 53.5089778°N 8.8370500°W | ||||||||
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Tuam Stars (Irish: Réalta Thuama) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Tuam area in County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA. Underage teams up to U-16's play in the Galway league and championships while Minor, Junior, and Senior compete in their respective competitions in the North Board section.
Tuam Stars are a Gaelic football club and are one of the most successful clubs in Galway Football's history.
In December 1887 the foundations for Tuam's first football club were formed. It was agreed they would play under "association rules" but GAA clubs were springing up everywhere, buoyed by the Nationalist revival sweeping the country. Messrs. W. and J. Silke, P Byrne and Patk. Kelly were the main driving force behind the formation of the towns first G.A.A. club.
Tuam's sportsman came under pressure to conform but the Tuam Herald, the local newspaper, was opposed to the new Gaelic version of the game. An excerpt from the opposition of a writer of the newspaper read "There can be no doubt that the hit-or-miss, smashing, dashing, rough and tumble game played under the name Gaelic is not football". The writer recommended that there should have been a campaign by newspapers to insist on a proper code of rules.
However such opposition did not stop the club and in February 1889, Tuam Stars was born, ignoring the trend for naming clubs after political heroes of the day. They played their first game on St. Patrick's Day of that year.
Although Tuam Stars were formed in 1888 there was no county championship. Instead they travelled to play all the outlying teams, Ballyhaunis, Ballaghaderreen, Dunmore (Tuam's great rivals, formed in 1887) and even to as far off as Tipperary to play Waterford. That long journey resulted in Tuam Stars becoming the first Connacht team to play on a Munster ground, and they went on to beat Waterford by 3 points to nil.
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