About
Loughmore-Castleiney GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in County Tipperary, Ireland. The club draws its players and support from the small parish of the same name. The area comprises the villages of Loughmore and Castleiney and their surrounding hinterland. 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.
Loughmore-Castleiney has traditionally been a gaelic football club but also has a successful hurling team. In 2007, it won its second Tipperary Senior Hurling County Final and then went on to win the Munster Club Senior Hurling Championship for the first time.
The Club 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.