Wicklow GAA
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| Irish: | Cill Mhantáin | ||
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| Province: | Leinster | ||
| Nickname(s): | The Garden County | ||
| County colours: |
Blue, Gold, White |
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| Ground(s): | Aughrim County Ground | ||
| Dominant sport: | Gaelic Football | ||
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| NFL: | Division 4 | ||
| NHL: | Division 2B | ||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||
| Hurling Championship: | Christy Ring Cup | ||
| Ladies' Gaelic football: | Brendan Martin Cup | ||
| Camogie: | Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup | ||
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Blue, Gold, White
The Wicklow County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Cill Mhantáin) or Wicklow GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wicklow. The county board is also responsible for the Wicklow inter-county teams.
Wicklow's Senior Football team play in the Leinster Senior Football Championship. Wicklow have had very little success at senior level, being the only Senior Football team in the province and one of two in Ireland not to have ever won a Senior title in either code, the other being Fermanagh.
Wicklow's Senior Hurling team compete in the Christy Ring Cup, the second tier of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. They reached the final in both the 2011 and 2012 cups losing to Kerry and London respectively.
Wicklow are one of two counties never to have won a senior provincial championship (the other is Fermanagh), but Bray Emmets, the leading side of the early 1900s, won Leinster and All-Ireland honours when they were playing in the Dublin Championship. Wicklow were twice proclaimed Leinster champions for short periods. Bray were representing Wicklow in 1889, and when they beat Newtown Blues of Drogheda by 1-7 to 1-4 they claimed that they had won the "final of Leinster" because Queens County or Kilkenny had not shown up for a final. But four days later the result was quashed. In 1897 they became Leinster champions for a week. A downpour caused Dublin to presume the Leinster final would not be played, Dublin went home, the referee awarded a walk-over to Wicklow. But the following meeting of the Central Council ordered the match to be replayed and Wicklow lost by 1-9 to 0-3.
A League semi-final in frostbound 1947 came about in bizarre fashion: Wicklow were picked to represent an unfinished group in which some of the teams had not yet played. In 1954 Wicklow were leading Meath by two points after sixty minutes of play but Meath were saved by the clock. Nine minutes of lost time had elapsed before Meath scored the winning point! After surviving the "long count" Meath went on to win the All-Ireland, and Wicklow lost their best player of the decade, John Timmons, to Dublin.
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