Sport
The Ballindine Gaelic footballers join with Irishtown to form the Davitts team who play in red and black. Davitts is currently playing in Division 1A league and Senior Championship. In 2011 Davitts won the Intermediate County Championship beating Burrishoole 0-14 to 0-12 in the final. They went on to win the Intermediate Connacht Championship defeating Padraig Pearses on a scorline of 1-13 to 0-08. Ballindine is home to Enda Conway who plays for Corinthians in Galway, and with UCD. In the early 1990's Enda was a loose cannon who described himself as the White Bull. However after a sit down meeting with John Heneghan, famously known as the 'Treaty of Ballindine', held in Boxcar's turf shed, Enda decided to straighten himself out and concentrate on his rugby career and to sew up the rest of the country.
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