History
Loughmore-Castleiney has traditionally been a gaelic football club but also has a successful hurling team. In 2008, it will be one of only three dual senior hurling and football clubs in county Tipperary. Michéal Webster and Paul Ormonde from the club are current members of the Tipperary senior hurling team. Michéal is son of Eddie Webster, inter-county senior football full-back with Tipperary in the 1960s and 1970s, who also represented Munster in the inter-provincial championship for the Railway Cup. Another Railway Cup and Tipperary footballer of note from the same era was Seán Kearney who excelled as a mid-fielder for club, county and province.
The Club provided Jim Ryan and Bill Ryan (Laha) to the Tipperary GAA team that played in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday against Dublin GAA in November 1920 when their playing colleague Michael Hogan of Grangemockler was one of 15 people shot and killed by British forces who opened fire from the sidelines. Bill Ryan lived to be 100 years and until his death was a frequent attender at local football matches involving Loughmore-Castleiny and was popularly known as Bill Laha.
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