Sport
- O'Donovan Rossa (Skibbereen) is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.
- Skibbereen Golf Club
- Skibbereen Rugby Club
- Skibbereen Rowing Club
- A.F.C.Skibbereen is the local Football Association Club
- Skibbereen Athletics Club
The local secondary school St. Fachtna's was a finalist in 1982 and a winner in 1991 of the Hogan Cup (Gaelic football).
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“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)