CLG Na Fianna
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| Founded: | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||
| County: | Dublin | ||||||||||||||||
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| Club Colours: | Yellow and Blue | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Mobhi Road | ||||||||||||||||
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Na Fianna GAA Club (Irish:Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Na Fianna ) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Glasnevin, at the heart of the Northside of Dublin. It caters for the sporting and social needs of many connected residential areas adjacent to its location through the promotion of Gaelic games — Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball—and the traditional Irish pursuits of music and dance. Céilí music and dancing is a regular feature in the club hall, while informal music sessions are a regular feature of the members’ bar.
Na Fianna was officially formed as a club on Monday 25th April 1955, when 201 members transferred from C.J. Kickham GAA Club to form Cumann Luthchleas Gael Na Fianna. The first Annual General Meeting took place on the 27th October 1955 later that year. Na Fiannas first clubhouse was originally transported from the Guinness Sports Grounds in Crumlin to Mobhi Road but was burnt to the ground in May 1967.
Na Fianna is a member of the Dublin GAA bodies in all the Gaelic codes of Gaelic football, hurling, camogie, ladies football and handball, and is therefore affiliated to the national organisation, the Gaelic Athletic Association. Being in the parish of Glasnevin it connects to the many family residents in the Mobhi Road/ Homefarm Road/ Ballymun Road/ Botanic Road axis, while extending its influence to the edges of Phibsboro, North Circular Road, Glasnevin Avenue, Drumcondra Road and Griffith Avenue, thus taking in all the Iona and Drumcondra residents also. The club also has affiliations with the many schools, both primary and post-primary, in this wide catchment area. The liaison between the club and schools offers parents and children a consistent engagement in sporting and non-sporting activities.
Na Fianna has been a leading proponent of Irish culture and the Na Fianna Céilí has long since been a tradition of the club. The club’s involvement in GAA Scór is an extension of its own regular internal Scór sessions. Na Fianna have won the Dublin football championship on five occasions, firstly in 1969 and for the second time, exactly tens years later in 1979. They eventually began their famous championship treble exactly twenty years later in 1999 and continued in 2000 and 2001.
[edit] 2000
Na Fianna were crowned Dublin football champions and Leinster football champions. They went on to an All-Ireland Club football championship final against Crosmaglen Rangers of Armagh. Na Fianna were defeated in the final by a scoreline of 1-14 to 0-12. The match was played in Croke Park with an attendance of 31,965.
[edit] Famous players
- Dessie Farrell Player and current GPA Chief Executive
- Jason Sherlock Current Dublin inter-county football player
- Senan Connell Current Dublin inter-county football player
- Kieran McGeeney Current Armagh inter-county football player
- Enda McNulty Current Armagh inter-county football player
- John Caffrey Former Dublin inter-county football player
- Paul Caffrey Current Dublin inter-county manager
- Tomás Brady Current Dublin inter-county hurling player
