Sport
Association football or soccer is played by Portadown F.C. who play in the Irish League, Annagh United, and Hanover F.C. who play at Brownstown Park. Gaelic football is played by Tír na nÓg GAA Club. Portadown Boat Club is located on the River Bann. It is the town's oldest sports club and holds an annual regatta as part of the Irish Rowing Union calendar. Rugby is played by Portadown Rugby Club which has many notable capped alumni, including Charlie Murtagh.
Portadown Cricket Club is a member of the NCU Senior League.
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“How long, then, Catiline, while you abuse our patience? How long is this madness of yours to make sport of us?”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)