Aodh Ruadh CLG
Donegal-based Gaelic games club
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Aodh Ruadh CLG is a GAA club based in the town of Ballyshannon in County Donegal.
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| Founded: | 1909 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Donegal | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Ernesiders | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Green and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Fr Tierney Park, Ballyshannon | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54.497863°N 8.191321°W | ||||||||||||
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Historically one of their county's most successful GAA clubs, it has won 12 Donegal Senior Football Championship titles, and currently competes in Division 1 of the league and the Senior Championship.
The club colours are green and white and it plays its home games at Fr Tierney Park.
The club has a local rivalry with Réalt na Mara.[1][2]
History
Aodh Ruadh was founded in 1909 as a football and hurling club.[3] It is named after nobleman Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Irish: Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill).
Fr Tierney Park opened officially in 1954.[4]
Jim "Natch" Gallagher was mentor to Donegal's 1972 and 1974 Ulster Senior Football Championship-winning teams.[4]
With Bundoran, Aodh Ruadh formed one half of the St Joseph's team that won seven Donegal SFC titles and an Ulster Club SFC—the only Donegal team to achieve this feat until Gaoth Dobhair in 2018. Aodh Ruadh also contributed three players to Donegal's 1992 All-Ireland SFC title win: Brian Murray, Gary Walsh and Sylvester Maguire.
In 2011, Aodh Ruadh created history by electing an all-female executive consisting of: Betty McIntyre, Chair, Emma Gaughan, Secretary, and Catherine McKee, Treasurer.[5]
Notable players
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Managers
| Years | Manager |
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| 1909–20?? | N/a |
| c. 2006–c. 2006? | P. J. McGowan[10] |
| c. 2007–c. 2007? | Peter Gallagher[10] |
| c. 2007–2012? | |
| 2012–2014 | Maurice McLaughlin[11] |
| c. 2015–c. 2015 | Packie McGrath[10] |
| 2016–c. 2018 | Peter Gallagher and James O'Donnell[10] |
| c. 2019–c. 2021 | Barry Ward[12][13] |
| 2022–2023 | John McNulty[14][12][15] |
| 2024 | Conor Cunningham[16][17] |
| 2024 | Maurice McLaughlin[18] |
| 2024– | Jimmy Langan[19][20] |
Honours
- Donegal Senior Football Championship: 1929, 1932, 1937, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1951, 1986, 1987, 1994, 1997, 1998
- Donegal Division 1 Football League: 1930, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1955, 1997
- Donegal Division 2 Football League: 2017, 2021
- Donegal Division 3 Football League: 2016
- Donegal Division 4 Football League: 1982, 2007, 2008
- Donegal Intermediate Football Championship: 2020 **Runner-up: 2012,[21] 2018[22]
- Donegal Under-21 Football Championship: 1981, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1993
- Donegal Under-21 B Football Championship: 2013
- Ulster Minor Club Football Championship: 1992
- Donegal Minor Football Championship: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1961, 1963, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1992
- Donegal Minor Football League: 1980, 1982, 1986, 2012