Sport
- Loughmore-Castleiney GAA is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club and has traditionally been a gaelic football club but also has a successful hurling team. The parish is often known as a “football island” in mid-Tipperary as it is surrounded by clubs that play hurling only and as a general rule do not engage in serious football. In 2007, the parish won the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship for the second time and then went on to win the Munster Club Senior Hurling Championship. It last won the Tipperary Senior Football Championship in 2004.
- Loughmore is the home of many sporting superstars including the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning captain Liam McGrath (2011) and two time GAA GPA All Stars Awards winner Noel McGrath. The Club also provided Jim Ryan and Bill Ryan (Laha) to the Tipperary team that played in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday against Dublin 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.
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