Louth Intermediate Football Championship

Louth Intermediate Football Championship
Founded1907[1]
TrophySéamus Flood Cup
Title holdersDundalk Gaels
Most titlesDundalk Gaels (5)
SponsorsCTI Business Solutions[2]

The Louth Intermediate Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association competition, organised by Louth GAA, among the intermediate grade Gaelic football clubs in County Louth, Ireland.

History

The competition, introduced as a bridge between the senior and junior grades, was first staged in 1907 and annually until 1912, when the county board discontinued it.[3] It was revived 32 years later in 1944. However, the competition was only staged twice before it lapsed again.[4] It re-emerged permanently on the county scene in 1978 with Kilkerley Emmets becoming the first winners of the Seamus Flood Cup.[5]

Trophy

The winning team is presented with the Séamus Flood Cup, named after the Dundalk GAA official (d. April 1970) and Clan na Gael club member who was chairman of Leinster GAA from 1939 to 1941.[6] The Leinster Under-20 Football Championship trophy is also named in his honour.

The winners of the Louth Intermediate Football Championship progress to the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship.[7]

Finals

Year Winner Score Opponent Score Winning Captain Final Venue
2024[8] Dundalk Gaels 2-04, 2-09 (R) Hunterstown Rovers 1-07, 0-13 (R) Dylan McKeown Darver
2023[9] Roche Emmets 0-12 O'Raghallaighs 1-08 Glen Stewart Clan na Gael Park
2022[10] Cooley Kickhams 1-13 St Kevin's 0-12 Darren Marks Páirc Mhuire
2021[11] St Fechin's 1-11 Cooley Kickhams 1-09 Conor Haughney Clan na Gael Park
2020[12] St Bride's 1-21 Kilkerley Emmets 1-08 James Costelloe Darver
2019[13] Mattock Rangers 1-17 Kilkerley Emmets 0-12 Adrian Reid Stabannon
2018[14] St Mochta's 1-15 St Fechin's 1-13 Darren McMahon The Grove
2017[15] O'Connells 1-11 Clan na Gael 0-08 Stuart Reynolds Páirc Uí Mhuirí
2016[16] St Joseph's 2-08 Mattock Rangers 0-12 Dáire Smyth St Brigid's Park
2015[17] Kilkerley Emmets 0-10, 3-10 (R) Clan na Gael 1-07, 0-11 (R) Shane Lennon McGeough Park
2014[18] Seán O'Mahony's 1-11 St Fechin's 1-08 Pat O'Brien Clan na Gael Park
2013[19] Geraldines 2-15 St Bride's 2-05 Jim McEneaney St Brigid's Park
2012[20] O'Connells 0-09 Clan na Gael 1-04 Niall Conlon McGeough Park
2011[21] O'Raghallaighs 0-09 Clan na Gael 0-06 James Moonan McGeough Park
2010[22] Dundalk Young Irelands 2-11 O'Raghallaighs 1-11 Aaron Rogers Páirc Mhuire
2009[23] Naomh Malachi 1-12 Na Piarsaigh 1-11 Aidan Murphy Cluskey Park
2008[24] Dreadnots 2-10 Na Piarsaigh 1-12 Fergal McGuigan Páirc Mhuire
2007[25] Dundalk Gaels 1-09 Dreadnots 0-08 Aidan Delaney Páirc Mhuire
2006[26] Naomh Malachi 1-09 O'Connells 1-08 Ronan Greene Páirc Mochta
2005[27] Geraldines 0-11 Naomh Malachi 0-10 John Neary Clan na Gael Park
2004[28] Dreadnots 2-07 O'Raghallaighs 1-09 Darren Malone Páirc Uí Mhuirí
2003[29] Dundalk Gaels 1-06 Oliver Plunketts 1-03 Peter McGinnity The Grove
2002[30] Naomh Malachi 3-08 Geraldines 2-08 Micheál Daly St Brigid's Park
2001[31] Naomh Fionnbarra 1-11, 0-15 (R) Seán McDermott's 2-08, 1-08 (R) Gerard Leonard The Grove
2000[32] Dreadnots 2-08 St Kevin's 0-10 Paul Aspell Páirc Mhuire
1999 Hunterstown Rovers 2-09 Geraldines 1-11 John McBride The Grove
1998 Seán O'Mahony's 2-06 Oliver Plunketts 0-10 Martin Connolly McGeough Park
1997 Roche Emmets 0-13 Naomh Fionnbarra 0-10 Gerard Craven St Brigid's Park
1996 Dundalk Young Irelands 0-14 Naomh Fionnbarra 1-08 Kevin Gorham The Grove
1995 Geraldines 1-09 (R) Mattock Rangers 1-06 Nicholas Browne (R) Páirc Mhuire
1994 Lann Léire 3-08 John Mitchels 0-07 Brendan Martin Páirc Mhuire
1993 Hunterstown Rovers 0-09 Dundalk Young Irelands 0-08 Thomas Duff Knockbridge
1992 Seán O'Mahony's 0-12, 1-11 (R) Naomh Fionnbarra 1-09, 1-02 (R) Willie Crawley The Grove
1991 Dundalk Gaels 2-09 Dundalk Young Irelands 1-05 Robbie McCrave Knockbridge
1990 St Joseph's 3-08 Naomh Malachi 0-11 David Mulligan Páirc Mochta
1989 Stabannon Parnells 1-13 Seán McDermott's 0-04 Fiachra Bell Páirc Mhuire
1988[33] Naomh Máirtín 0-07 Naomh Malachi 1-03 Martin Morgan Páirc Uí Mhuirí
1987 Dundalk Gaels 3-10 Geraldines 0-08 Davy McDonnell Páirc Mochta
1986[34] Dreadnots 1-06, 3-11 (R) Naomh Máirtín 2-03, 2-08 (R) Pádraig Califf Páirc Uí Mhuirí
1985 Oliver Plunketts 2-08 Seán O'Mahony's 0-06 Michael Rossiter Páirc Mhuire
1984 St Patrick's 1-05 St Bride's 0-03 Diarmuid McArtain Clan na Gael Park
1983 St Joseph's 1-06 Oliver Plunketts 0-08 Noel Murtagh The Grove
1982 Mattock Rangers 2-04 St Joseph's 1-04 Damien Reid Páirc Mhuire
1981 St Mochta's 2-07 St Bride's 2-02 Michael Byrne Páirc Mhuire
1980 St Patrick's 0-09, 1-06 (R) St Bride's 2-03, 0-08 (R) Eamonn McCann Cluskey Park
1979 Geraldines 2-08 Dundalk Gaels 1-04 Michael Lynch Páirc Mochta
1978[35] Kilkerley Emmets 0-14 Dreadnots 2-05 Arthur Mulholland Knockbridge
1945 Clan na Gael 1-07 Oliver Plunketts 2-01 - Athletic Grounds
1944 Shamrocks (Drogheda) 1-06 Dundalk Young Irelands 0-06 - Athletic Grounds
1912 Geraldines 2-04 Funshog 0-00 - Shamrock Lodge
1911 Ardee St. Mochta's 0-01 Geraldines 0-00 - The Grove
1910 ‡ John Boyle O'Reilly's (Dundalk) 0-02 Castlebellingham 2-00 - Ardee
1909 Dundalk Rangers 1-11 Castlebellingham 1-06 - Athletic Grounds
1908 Boyne Emmets 4-05 Hitchestown 0-07 - Athletic Grounds
1907 Cooley Kickhams 0-09 Dromiskin Mitchels 0-03 Charles P. Kearney Athletic Grounds

‡ Title awarded to John Boyle O'Reilly's. Castlebellingham had fielded unregistered players

See also

  • Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship
  • Mulligan, Fr.John (1984). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record.
  • Mulligan, Fr.John (2000). The GAA in Louth - An Historical Record (updated).

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