County: Warwickshire Founded 1958 | Colours: Maroon & White | |
Grounds: Trinity School, Aspley, Nottingham | ||
St. Barnabas Gaelic Athletic Club are a Nottingham based Gaelic Football and Hurling club. It is Nottingham's sole provider of Gaelic sports (Gaelic football and hurling). It was founded in 1958, initially to provide a social outlet for Irish immigrants who had moved to Nottingham. It also attracts members from the surrounding region including Chesterfield, Lincoln, Newark and Loughborough. The club is affiliated to and enters into competitions organised by Warwickshire GAA. This region (for GAA purposes) today covers both the West and East Midlands of England, with its headquarters at Páirc na hÉireann, Bickenhill, Solihull B92 0DB.
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History
The club was technically conceived in 1947, though it did not exist in it's current format until 1958. In 1947, when the team played in green and red a number of parties attempted, and failed, to form an "East Midlands" county structure, akin to the county structure of GAA games in Ireland.
In 1948, the club was affiliated to Warwickshire - the county in which it's teams currently compete.
In 1956, several GAA clubs in the East Midlands area came together with other, neighbouring clubs, including Lincoln, to form the Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire County Board. When Leicester joined, this became the East Midlands County Board, which later folded in 1970. Due to a lack of new players migrating to the region, most clubs in the county faced difficulty. St Barnabas amalgamated with Derby (St Colman's) to form St Bridgets, and played in green & white stripes. St Bridgets, which folded around 1973.
St Barnabas was reformed in 1983, affiliating to Warwickshire. Having left Warwickshire in 1956, the original club colour's were now being used by another club, so after a couple of years playing in yellow, the club switched to maroon shirts & white shorts, which they have played in since.
When the Hurling team was re-established in 2012, they adopted maroon and white hooped jerseys, so as to distinguish the team from the footballers, and in order to acknowledge input from a couple of neighbouring football-only clubs.
Structure
Today St. Barnabas is a club, which has expanded significantly in the early 2010s to include additional teams for ladies football, men's reserve football and hurling.
2015
All - Britain Hurling Shield Champions
Warwickshire Ladies' Football League and Championship Winners
2012
Warwickshire Ladies' Football League and Championship Winners
Warwickshire Men's Reserve Football League and Championship Winners
2011
Warwickshire Men's Senior Football Champions
All-Britain Semi-Finalists Fr Forde winners ( 2010 competition )
2010
Tina Owens Cup Winners
Tony Keane Cup Winners
Warwickshire Men's Senior Championship Finalists
2009
Warwickshire Men's Intermediate League Champions
Mulligan Cup Winners
Dominic Downey Cup Winners
Tina Owens Cup Winners
John Scanlon Cup Winners
1989
Warwickshire Men's Senior Championship Winners