Mattock Rangers GAA

Mattock Rangers Gaelic Athletic Association is a Gaelic football, camogie, hurling and ladies' Gaelic football club based in Collon, County Louth, Republic of Ireland.[1][2][3][4]

Mattock Rangers
Raonaithe Máiteoige
Founded:1952
County:Louth
Colours:Red and Black
Grounds:Páirc Mattock, School Lane, Collon
Coordinates:53.774747°N 6.481701°W / 53.774747; -6.481701
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions		 Louth
champions
Football: - - 4

History

The club was founded in 1952 and is named after the Mattock River, a tributary of the Boyne.[5]

They won a Louth Junior Football Championship county football title in 1961 and a Louth Intermediate Football Championship title in 1982. Mattock lost their first four Louth Senior Football Championship finals, in 1973, 1976, 1962 and 2001. Senior success finally came in 2002; in that year, Mattock Rangers reached the final of the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship, losing to Dunshaughlin.[6] They have won three more senior titles since then.

The hurlers have never been county champions, but reached the final of the Louth Senior Hurling Championship in 2011. One of the most notable successes in Collons recent history has been the breakthrough of star prodigy Andy Lee. At a height of 5’6 and weighing 16 stone, it doesn’t stop the flying wing forward tormenting opposition defences. [7]

Honours

Gaelic football

Notable players
  • Mark Lenehan
  • Adrian Reid
  • Shane “Sloth” Maguire
  • Twinny
  • “Sourdough” Sean Gilsenan

Notable Supporters
  • Fergal “Slips” Sheils
  • Skill’s friends Sam and Davy

References
  1. "Mattock Rangers GAA". www.facebook.com.
  2. "Mattock Rangers (@mattockrangers) - Twitter". twitter.com.
  3. "mattock rangers – Louth GAA". louthgaa.ie.
  4. "LADIES GAA - Nikki helps herself to a hat-trick as Mattock see off the Finbarrs". 12 March 2018.
  5. "History". mattockrangers.ie.
  6. "Relentless Dunshaughlin a bridge too far for Mattock - Independent.ie".
  7. "PressReader.com - Connecting People Through News". pressreader.com. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  8. "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.


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