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Oliver Plunketts GAA

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County:
  
Cork

Grounds:
  
Páirc Uinsinn

Colours:
  
Black and White

Founded
  
1974

St. Oliver Plunkett's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Cork, Ireland. The club is based in Ahiohill. It fields teams in hurling and Gaelic football competitions organized by Cork GAA and the Carbery divisional board.

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History

The club was founded in 1974, and named after Saint Oliver Plunkett whose canonization was announced that year. This was not the first club in Ahiohill and there are records of games played by Ahiohill as early as the famine in 1840s. The underage club was known as Assumption Rovers. On 28 August 2011, Plunketts won their first West Cork Junior A Hurling Championship beating Dohenys in the Final with a score of 2-15 to 0-12. Kevin Coffey was Man of the Match scoring 8 points.

Honours

  • Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Winner 2002 Runner-Up 1999
  • Cork Junior B Football Championship Winner 1990, 2007
  • Cork Minor C Football Championship Runner-Up 1999
  • Cork Minor C Hurling Championship Winner 2002, 2004, 2006
  • West Cork Junior A Hurling Championship Winner 2011
  • West Cork Junior A Football Championship Runner-Up 2009, 2012
  • West Cork Junior B Hurling Championship Winner 1990, 1997, 1999, 2002 Runner-Up 1988, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
  • West Cork Junior B Football Championship Winner 1986, 1990, 2007 Runner-Up 1978, 1979, 1998, 2006
  • West Cork Junior C Hurling Championship Winner 1988, 1995
  • West Cork Minor B Football Championship Runner-Up 1985 (Assumption Rovers)
  • West Cork Minor C Hurling Championship Winner 2002, 2004, 2006
  • West Cork Minor C Football Championship Winner 1999, 2002 Runner-Up 1997, 2005
  • West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship Winner 2005 Runner-Up 1988, 1990, 2003
  • West Cork Under-21 B Football Championship Winner 2009 Runner-Up 1988
  • West Cork Under-21 B Hurling Championship Winner 1996, 2001, 2002 Runner-Up 2000
  • West Cork Under-21 C Football Championship Winner 2002 Runner-Up 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2012
  • Notable players

    Kevin Coffey

    Conor O'Driscoll

    Dermot Hurley

    References

    Oliver Plunketts GAA Wikipedia