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Louth GAA
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:For more details of Louth GAA see Louth Senior Club Football Championship or Louth Senior Club Hurling Championship.
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| Irish: | Lughbhadh or An Lú | ||||||||||||||||
| Province: | Leinster | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s): | The Wee County | ||||||||||||||||
| County Colours: | Red and white | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Drogheda Park, Drogheda | ||||||||||||||||
| Dominant Sport: | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||
| NFL: | Division 1B | ||||||||||||||||
| NHL: | Division 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Football Championship: | Sam Maguire Cup | ||||||||||||||||
| Hurling Championship: | Nicky Rackard Cup | ||||||||||||||||
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The Louth County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste An Lú) or Louth GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Louth. The county board is also responsible for the Louth inter-county teams The current county champions are St. Josephs from the Dromiskin/Darver area.
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A fragment of a poem from 1806 records a football match between Louth and Fermanagh at Inniskeen, Co Monaghan.
Louth invented team-training for big Gaelic football matches. When they sent the team into training in Dundalk for the 1913 Croke Memorial replay under a soccer trainer from Belfast, the move caused more than a ripple through the Association. For thirty years full-time training in bursts of a week or so before a big match were common. After that the two or three times a week gatherings became more popular.
Between 1945 and 1953 Louth and Meath met 13 times. The crowds got bigger and bigger each time as they played draw after draw in the Championship. The attendance of 42,858 at a thrilling 1951 replay remained a record for a provincial match other than a final for forty years until a certain serial thriller between Meath and Dublin. The rivalry with Meath has never fizzled out, as witnessed by a stirring Leinster semi-final in 1998. Nor has controversy, as witnessed by Graham Geraghty's "wide" 45th minute point. In 1957 showband star Dermot O'Brien was late for the All-Ireland final and joined the team when the parade was completed. He then played a key role as Louth beat Cork with the help of a goal from Kevin Behan with five minutes to go.
- All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 2
- All-Ireland Junior Football Championships: 4
- Owen Treacy Cup: 1
- 2006
- Tommy Murphy Cup: 1
- 2006
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- All-Ireland Junior Camogie Championships: 1
- 1982
| Gaelic Athletic Association | ||
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| National Football League | ||
| Division 1 | A |
Cork | Donegal | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Limerick| Mayo | Tyrone |
| B |
Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Louth | Westmeath |
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| Division 2 | A |
Carlow | Clare | Leitrim | London | Longford | Monaghan| Offaly | Roscommon |
| B |
Antrim | Cavan | Meath | Sligo | Tipperary | Wexford| Waterford | Wicklow |
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| National Hurling League | ||
| Division 1 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 2 | A | |
| B | ||
| Division 3 | A | |
| B | ||
| Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level | ||
| All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Nicky Rackard Cup (2007) | ||
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Armagh | Cavan | Donegal | Fermanagh | Leitrim | Longford | Louth | Monaghan | Roscommon | Sligo | Tyrone | Warwickshire |
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Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1) - Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2) - Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3) |
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