St Fintans Hospital GAA

St Fintans Hospital GAA was a Gaelic Athletic Association gaelic football club in County Laois, Ireland.

The club was founded in the late 1940s by staff members at St Fintans Hospital in Portlaoise.

The Laois Intermediate Football Championship was won on three occasions (1951, 1960 and 1970) and the Laois Junior Football Championship was also won on three occasions (1950, 1959 and 1964).

The club faded out of existence in the late 1970s after winning the Laois Junior "B" Football Championship in 1975.

Laois GAA clubs
Current clubs
  • Abbeyleix
  • Annanough
  • Arles/Kilcruise
  • Arles/Killeen
  • Ballinakill
  • Ballyfin
  • Ballylinan
  • Ballypickas
  • Ballyroan Abbey
  • Barrowhouse
  • Borris-in-Ossory
  • Camross
  • Castletown
  • Clonad
  • Clonaslee-St.Manmans
  • Clough/Ballacolla
  • Courtwood
  • Crettyard
  • Emo
  • Errill
  • Graiguecullen
  • Harps
  • Kilcavan
  • Kilcotton
  • Killeshin
  • Kyle
  • Mountmellick
  • O'Dempseys
  • Park/Ratheniska
  • Portarlington
  • Portlaoise
  • Rathdowney-Errill
  • Rathdowney
  • Rosenallis
  • Shanahoe
  • Slieve Bloom
  • Spink
  • St. Fintans, Colt
  • St Fintans, Mountrath
  • St Josephs
  • Stradbally
  • The Heath
  • The Rock
  • Timahoe
  • Trumera
Former clubs
  • Shamrocks
  • Ballyroan
  • Fairymount
  • Jamestown
  • St Fintans Hospital
  • Milltown
  • St Conleths
  • Cuddagh
  • Tinnahinch


Famous quotes containing the word hospital:

    “The sun his hand uncloses like a statue,
    Irrevocably: thereby such light is freed
    That all the dingy hospital of snow
    Dies back to ditches.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)