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competed in the Scottish Ladies university league and Championship. In 2013 Connollys ladies won the All Britain Junior Championship and went on to contest the All Ireland Club junior final, losing to a strong kerry club. Connollys ladies have gone on to win 5 All Britains and have lost a further 3 finals. Connollys ladies are the benchmark of ladies GAA in Britain currently.
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In 1998 a Ladies team was set-up by then club chairman Peter Dillon and his wife Suzanne. To begin with, Connollys Ladies competed in the Ladies University Championship and won it three years on the trot. The Ladies also won back-to-back sevens titles in 2006 and 2007. Since 2009 the ladies' team has
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Dunedin Connollys was founded in 1988 on Leith Walk, in the north of Edinburgh, at an Irish dancing show. Father Eamonn Sweeney, the priest who had been instrumental in setting up Gaelic football clubs in the west of Scotland, had a chance meeting with Belfast native Anthony Haughey and plans for an
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provided the club with a wider playing pool with many of the university team players going on to turn out for Connollys. The club's first tournament success came in 1993, with victory in the O’Fiach Cup and was closely followed by the club's maiden Scottish Championship triumph the following year.
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Dunedin Connollys has a youth set-up, named Dunedin Og. Founded in 2012, the establishment of Dunedin Og marked the end of two years of hard work and coaching by local Gaelic football enthusiasts in Edinburgh's primary schools. Dunedin Og runs Under-10, Under-12 and Under-14 teams, all of whom
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Dunedin Connollys have won the Scottish Championship 16 times to date, the first in 1994 and the most recent in 2020. The club won five titles on the trot from 2007 - 2011. Dunedin Connollys have also won the British Championship four times, in 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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Edinburgh-based Gaelic team were formed. Initially, the team consisted of first and second generation local Irish immigrants from a working-class background. The club trained on the Meadows, and played home matches at
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As well as a Men's Senior team, Dunedin Connollys runs a Junior team. The second-string side made it to the 2016 Scottish Junior Championship final, where they were defeated by Glasgow Gaels.
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title four times, most recently in 2018. Dunedin Connollys currently runs a Senior Men's team, an Intermediate Men's team, a Junior Men's team, two Ladies' teams and an underage set-up,
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In the early 1990s, there were nearly 20 Gaelic football teams competing in central Scotland. In 2018 that number has been reduced to just five, including Connollys.
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compete as mixed gender teams. In 2015, eight Dunedin Og players were called up to the Scottish feile team while one player made the Scotland Under-16 squad.
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Men's Scottish Senior Championship: winners - 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
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by a score of 1–08 to 2-04. The club then won three consecutive British titles, defeating John Mitchel's after extra time in 2016, defeating
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in 2004 and Harlsden Harps in 2005, Dunedin Connollys won their maiden British Championship in 2009, beating holders John Mitchel's of
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Squad as per Dunedin Connollys v Naomh Colmcille, 2017 All-Ireland Club Junior Football Championship Quarter-Final, 9 December 2017
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on four occasions, in 2010, 2016/17, 2017/18, and 2018/19. Connollys lost in the 2010 quarter-final to Emyvale of
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Laois footballer hoping to help Scottish GAA side to All Ireland glory - Siun Lennon - 14th November 2018
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Men's British Senior Football Championship: winners 2009, 2016, 2017, 2018; finalists 2004, 2005
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panellists while Conor Horan turned out for the Mayo U21s and Ronan McGurk did likewise for
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minors. For Dunedin Connollys Ladies, Caoilfhionn Deeney won the All-Ireland title with
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side Sean McDermotts of Warwickshire GAA in 2017, and Neasden Gaels in 2018.
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and the surname of Edinburgh-born Irish republican and socialist leader
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in 2011 while Rosanna Heeney appeared in two All-Ireland finals with
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Ladies All-Britain Intermediate Championship: winners 2014, 2015
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Men's Junior All-Ireland Series: quarter-finalists - 2010, 20177
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on the western outskirts of the city. The establishment of the
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Ladies Scottish Senior Championship: winners - 2014, 2015
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Men's Junior All-Ireland Series: semi-finalists - 2016
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Gaelic Athletic Association clubs established in 1988
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Ladies All-Britain Junior Championship: winners 2013
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Men's Scottish Junior Championship: finalists - 2016
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Index

County
Scotland
Irish
Scottish GAA
Edinburgh
Scotland
Gaelic
Edinburgh
Dùn Èideann
James Connolly
Scottish Championship
British GAA
St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh
British University Gaelic football Championship
Heriot-Watt University
Napier University
University of Edinburgh
Portobello RFC
Duddingston
Dún Deagh Dálriada
Glasgow Gaels GFC
Sands MacSwineys GFC
Tir Conaill Harps
Mayo
Kerry
Carlow
Kildare
Tyrone
Leitrim
Sligo

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