Antrim Ladies Gaelic Football Association
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| Irish: | Aontroim |
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| Nickname(s): | The Saffs |
| Founded: | 1996 |
| Province: | Ulster |
| Ground(s): | Various |
| County colours: | Saffron White |
| Website: | www |
| Executive | |
| Chairman: | Ursula Lynch |
| Secretary: | Ashlene McLarnon |
| Treasurer: | Anthony Carleton |
The Antrim County Board of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (Irish: Cumann Pheil na mBan Aontroim) or Antrim LGFA is one of the 32 county boards of the LGFA in Ireland, and is responsible for Ladies' Gaelic Football in County Antrim. The county board is also responsible for the Antrim county teams.
As of 2024, there were 35 clubs affiliated to Antrim LGFA.[1]
The Ladies Gaelic Football Association was established in July 1974 in Hayes Hotel, Thurles, County Tipperary – the same venue in which the GAA had been established 80 years previously. Antrim was one of the last counties in Ireland to organise formally, not doing so until 1995.
A group of students in Belfast came together and organised teams in their own parishes, playing first a number of challenge games and then organising league and championships.[2]
The first Antrim LGFA Junior Championship and League was won in 1996 by Conn Magee's Glenravel.[3]
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