C.L.G. Ard an Rátha

C.L.G. Ard an Rátha
''Ardara GAA''
Founded: 1921
County: Donegal
Colours: Green and yellow
Playing kits

Standard colours
Senior Club Championships

All Ireland Ulster
champions
Donegal
champions
Football: - - 7

C.L.G. Ard an Rátha (Ardara GAA in english) is a GAA club based in Ardara in County Donegal.

History

The club was founded on 21 October 1921.[1]

One of their county's more successful teams, they have won the Donegal Senior Football Championship on 6 occasions. Their most recent success was in 2004.[2]

The team is perhaps most famous at national level for being the home club of Anthony Molloy, the first Donegal senior captain to lift the Sam Maguire Cup.[3]

Paddy McGrath, a member of the 2012 All-Ireland winning inter-county team, currently plays for them.[4] McGrath, along with Ardara teammates Conor Classon and Peter McNelis,[5] was part of the Donegal U21 squad which qualified for the All-Ireland U21 Final.

In June 2012, one of the club's players, Thomas Maguire, was killed in a car crash in Australia.[6]

In February 2013, their ladies' team famously quit Facebook in a dispute over online bullying.[7][8]

In May 2013, the men's team were forbidden from entering the All-Ireland Gaeltacht.[9]

Honours

Notable players

References

  1. http://www.ardaragaa.ie/?page_id=73
  2. "DONEGAL SFC : Brilliant Boyle is Ardara ace". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 4 October 2004. Retrieved 4 October 2004.
  3. 1 2 "The heroes of '92 – Where are they now?". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). 8 January 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2009.
  4. "Will McGuinness be good for Donegal?". BBC Sport. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
  5. 1 2 Craig, Frank. "Cadbury's Ulster Under-21 Football final". Ardara.ie. Ardara trio Conor Classon, Paddy McGrath and Peter McNelis all played their part in helping Jim McGuinness' men secure a famous win over the Breffni blues. Both Classon and McGrath were again two of the side's most influential operators – with McNelis entering the fray late in the second half.
  6. Harkin, Greg (6 June 2012). "Donegal GAA star killed in Perth...". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). Retrieved 6 June 2012. If he didn't emigrate he could have expected to make the Donegal senior GAA football squad soon.
  7. "Donegal Ladies GAA team quits Facebook". Donegal Daily. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
  8. Harkin, Greg; O'Halloran, Georgina (26 January 2013). "GAA girls to quit social media over web bullying". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). Retrieved 26 January 2013.
  9. "Ardara refused permission to go to All-Ireland Gaeltacht". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). 20 May 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2013.
  10. "Ardara's Martin Gavigan: The man the Donegal fans call 'Rambo'". Hogan Stand. 30 April 1993.

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