Ulster GAA

Ulster GAA
Irish	Cúige Uladh
Location	North
Number of counties	9
Province colours	Gold and black
Major grounds	Casement Park, Belfast St. Tiernach's Park, Clones
Most All-Ireland titles
Hurling	none
Football	Down and Cavan (5 each)
Most provincial titles
Hurling	Antrim (48)
Football	Cavan (37)
Interprovincial Championship wins
Hurling	0
Football	28
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The Ulster Council (Irish: Comhairle Uladh) is a Provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, and handball in the province of Ulster. The headquarters of the Ulster GAA is based in Armagh City.

The first Ulster GAA Convention was held on 22 March 1903 in Armagh. Belfast solicitor George Martin was elected as first President with L.F. O’Kane (Derry) as first Secretary. Victor O’Nolan (Tyrone), the father of writer Flann O'Brien was elected Vice-President. Danny Murphy (Down) has been Ulster Council Secretary and Chief Executive Office since 1998. Danny is a former Vice President of the GAA and President of Ulster GAA. On 4 July 2012 Danny was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for Services to Sport and Community Relations.

Competitions

As of 3 June 2008 according to the BBC.

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As of 15 June 2008 according to the Sunday Tribune.

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Ulster has always been the weakest of the provinces in hurling terms, possibly due to the difference between the hurling promulgated by the early Gaelic Athletic Association and the "commons" game played in Ulster. The Ulster hurling team have only won four Railway Cup semi-final games in their history (1945, 1992, 1993 and 1995), they however lost in each of those Railway Cup deciders.

There have been some successes over the years, mostly by Antrim teams:

Competitions

The Ulster camogie team won the premier representative competition in the women’s team field sport of camogie, the Gael Linn Cup on two occasions (click on year for teams) in.1967 and 2007,

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