Mattock Rangers GAA
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| Founded: | 1952 | ||||||||
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| County: | Louth | ||||||||
| Nickname: | The Buzzards | ||||||||
| Colours: | Red and Black | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Mattock, School Lane, Collon | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53°46′29″N 6°28′54″W / 53.774747°N 6.481701°W | ||||||||
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Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Ireland.[1][2][3][4]
History
The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.[1]
They won a Louth Junior Football Championship county title in 1961 and a Louth Intermediate Football Championship title in 1982. Mattock lost their first four Louth Senior Football Championship finals, in 1973, 1976, 1962 and 2001. Senior success finally came in 2002; in that year, Mattock Rangers reached the final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Dunshaughlin.[2] They have won three more senior titles since then. In 2015, they were relegated to the intermediate grade, which they subsequently won in 2019. They then went on a strong run, winning the 2019 Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship before being beaten by Magheracloone in the All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship semi final.
The hurlers have never been county champions, but reached the final of the Louth Senior Hurling Championship in 2011.[3]
Notable players
Honours
Gaelic football
- Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship (1): 2019[7]
- Louth Senior Football Championship (4): 2002,[8] 2005,[9] 2009,[10] 2010[11]
- Cardinal O'Donnell Cup (2): 2011,[12] 2015[13]
- Louth Senior Football League Division 1B (1): 2005[14]
- Louth Intermediate Football Championship (2): 1982,[15] 2019[16]
- Louth Junior Football Championship (1): 1961[17]
- Louth Junior 2A Football Championship (1): 1960[17]
- Louth Junior 2B Football Championship (1): 2022[18]
- Louth Intermediate Football League (2): 1996,[15] 1998[15]
- Paddy Sheelan Cup (3): 2009,[19] 2017,[20] 2024[21]
- Dealgan Milk Products Shield (4): 1988,[22] 1992, 1993, 1996
- Louth Junior 2A Football League (4): 1977, 1979, 2004,[23] 2018[24]
- Louth Under-19 Football Championship (1): 2023[25] (shared with Hunterstown Rovers)
- Louth Junior 2 Football League (Division 5) (1): 2016
References
- ↑ "History". mattockrangers.ie.
- ↑ "Relentless Dunshaughlin a bridge too far for Mattock - Independent.ie".
- ↑ "Results: GAA club finals". RTÉ Sport. 25 September 2011.
- ↑ https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/sport/gaa/former-louth-captain-adrian-reid-announces-inter-county-retirement-8353992
- ↑ https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/sport/revealed-dundalk-democrat-louth-gaa-ifc-team-of-the-year-in-association-with-the-louth-and-proud-podcast-8133614
- ↑ https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/sport/serial-sfc-winners-with-mattock-but-the-brennan-brothers-are-hunterstown-through-and-through-8330114
- ↑ "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ↑ "Golden day for Mattock Rangers". Irish Times. 16 September 2002.
- ↑ "Grandstand finish for Mattock's second title". Irish Independent. 3 October 2005.
- ↑ "Reid strike adds gloss to comfortable Matt' finish". Irish Independent. 5 October 2009.
- ↑ "Louth SFC: Rangers snatch victory at the death". Hogan Stand. 4 October 2010.
- ↑ "Clear signs of progress". Hogan Stand. 27 November 2011.
- ↑ "FL1 final: Mattock are champions as Pat's unbeaten run ends". Hogan Stand. 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "Vintage Mattock further undermine OConnells senior status". Drogheda Independent. 28 October 2005.
- 1 2 3 "Hanratty set for second season". Drogheda Independent. 21 December 2011.
- ↑ "Ruthless Mattock are intermediate no more after final win over Kilkerley". Dundalk Democrat. 6 October 2019.
- 1 2 "Legendary son of Collon Doc will be sadly missed". Drogheda Independent. 28 January 2009.
- ↑ "Bannon and Reid strike late as Mattock Rangers deny Sean O'Mahony's in Louth Junior 2B Championship final". The Argus. 6 November 2022.
- ↑ "Christy leads Mattock to replay glory". Drogheda Independent. 13 May 2009.
- ↑ "Congratulations Mattock Rangers". Louth GAA. 13 June 2017.
- ↑ "Mattock Rangers punish wasteful St Joseph's to claim Paddy Sheelan Cup final win". Drogheda Independent. 30 March 2024.
- ↑ "The golden boys". Hogan Stand. 30 November 2007.
- ↑ "Mattock are Division 4A champions". The Argus. 12 November 2004.
- ↑ "Division 4 League Final". Louth GAA. 5 October 2018.
- ↑ "Mattock/Hunterstown convincingly claim Louth U-19 title". Dundalk Democrat. 18 December 2023.
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