Sport
There is a strong GAA tradition in Abbeydorney. The local hurling team have won four County Championships, the last in 1974, and in more recent times their minor teams have had great success, winning the minor county championship in 1999 and again in 2008.
The Abbeydorney Ladies Football Club was the feeding ground for the great Kerry Ladies teams of the 1980s and 1990s. In more recent years they secured back-to-back All-Irelands. They won the Junior All-Ireland Club title in 2004 and followed that a year later in 2005 by winning the All-Ireland Intermediate Club title.
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—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
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