Sport

See separate files for Sports people, Boat Clubs (rowing), Hurling, Rugby, Soccer, Soccer players, Motor racing, Markets Field, Greyhound Stadium (Greenpark) , Thomond Park

 See also The Séamus Ó Ceallaigh Collection for a huge library of GAA-related materials

 

General

• Irish winners of major championship medals, 1900-2006 [Limerick winners highlighted]

• Limerick’s highlights of the 1951 sports arena, Limerick Leader 29/12/1951, p2

• Limerick Sportsmen of the year (1958), Limerick Leader 3/1/1959, p12 & 13

• Limerick Sportsmen of the Year (1959), Limerick Leader 9/1/1960, p12 & 13

• Presenting our star sportsmen of 1960, Limerick Leader 7/1/1961, p6 & 7

• The ‘Leader’ salutes the Limerick Sports Stars of 1961, Limerick Leader 6/1/1962, p6 & 7

• The ‘Leader’ salutes the Limerick Sports Stars of 1962, Limerick Leader 2/2/1963, p14 & 15

• Look back at Limerick (4) – Motor races in the streets, Limerick Leader 22/5/1965, p16

• The exciting times of a sporting newspaper by Charlie Mulqueen, Limerick Leader, no date, c. 1980/1

• The best of 2013 - Top 30 moments of the Limerick sporting year, Limerick Leader 4/1/2014, p11-14 [Sport]

• Olympics – Waving the green flag, Athens, 1906 by Des Ryan, Old Limerick Journal vol. 43, Summer 2009

• Olympics – Limerick has had huge impact on Olympics by Tom Aherne [includes photograph of Paddy Ryan], Limerick Leader 20/08/2016, p17 

• Olympics – First Olympians made great mark on sport by Tom Aherne [includes photograph of John J. Flanagan], Limerick Leader 27/08/2016, p19 

• The Catholic Institute Athletic Club, Rosbrien by Ralph McMahon, Old Limerick Journal vol. 41, Winter 2005

• Hammering the opposition, Munster style by Bernard O'Neill, Limerick Life 06/12/2017

Archery & fencing

• Limerick Archery and Fencing Club may attract overseas competitors, Limerick Chronicle 6/1/1968, p5

Athletics

• photo & caption, Limerick CBS (Sexton Street) Athletic team, Limerick Leader 28/5/1955, p14

• ‘I saw grown men cry that day’ [30^th anniversary of John Treacy winning World Cross Country Championship at Greenpark, Limerick interview with Ronnie Long], Limerick Leader 28/3/2009, p22(Sport)

• World Cross Country, Limerick, 1979: Treacy’s triumph, Limerick Leader 21/11/2009, p18

• Limerick and the Olympic Games, 1896-1924 by Kevin McCarthy, slides from lecture at Limerick City Library, 13/4/010

• The Leahys of Cragane made their mark in world athletics, Limerick Leader 30/10/2004, p23 

• Great Limerick Athletes - Jack O'Grady, Limerick Leader 25/04/1953 

• A great County Limerick scholar and athlete, the late Michael Dundon, Limerick Leader 05/11/1955, p6 

Baseball

• Baseball - Limerick race venue temporarily transformed into a "ball park", Limerick Leader 1/6/1957, p14

Basketball

• St. Nessan’s bring honour to city [photo feature], Limerick Leader 25/3/2000, p22

• Limerick are kings of basketball court, Limerick Leader 28/1/2002

Box Car Derby

• Downhill all the way for box car racer Bridie [Box Car Derby, 1953], Limerick Leader 29/12/2007, p22

Boxing

• Limerick boxers of the past: Jim Dalton and his record, Limerick Leader 7/1/1950, p5

• Limerick boxers of the past: Paddy Healy’s unbeaten record, Limerick Leader 14/1/1950, p5

• Limerick boxers of the past:Ernest Brown, boxer and sportsman, Limerick Leader 21/1/1950, p5

• Limerick boxers of the past: the last of the old guard – Tommy Cooney [also Mickey Hartigan and Jack Gleazer], Limerick Leader 28/1/1950, p5

• Limelight on local boxers [Frank Downes, Sean Creamer], Limerick Leader 29/4/1950, p12

• Revival of amateur boxing in Limerick, Limerick Leader 10/10/1953, p5

• Gene Tunney in Limerick : purpose of his Irish visit, Limerick Leader 21/8/1954, p.1

• St. Francis Boxing Club sweep the board, Limerick Leader 2/3/1959, p4

• Big honour for St Francis Boxing Club : 1^st cap for Jim Fairbrother, Limerick Leader 30/1/1963, p4

• Andy [Lee] honoured in Texaco Awards, Limerick Leader 13/11/2004

• photograph of St. Francis Amateur Boxing Club, 1931, Limerick Chronicle 17/4/2007, p16

• photograph of Eamonn Ryan & Eddie Phayer, St. Francis Boxing Club, 1962, Limerick Leader 15/2/2010, p13

• A rocky tale as minister opens boxing academy, Limerick Chronicle 23/10/12, p4

• Lee has world in his sights, Limerick Leader 13/12/2014, p1

• Lee lands knockout blow, Limerick Leader 15/12/2014, various pages

• Massive party in city for Andy, Limerick Chronicle 16/12/2014, p1 & 4

• A welcome fit for a champion, Limerick Leader 17/12/2014, p24

• King of the world Andy Lee was crowned the WBO Middleweight champion, Limerick Post 20/12/2014, p86

• On top of the world. How Andy Lee became champion of the world, Limerick Leader 20/12/2014, p1 & 3[Sport]

• Home is the hero, Limerick Post 20/12/2014, p1 & 4

• World champion Andy Lee returns to Limerick in triumph, Limerick Leader 20/12/2014, p1 & 2

• Andy Lee named Limerick Person of the Year 2014, Limerick Leader 30/03/2015, p3  

• Battered, bruised, unbowed: Andy does the business again, Limerick Leader 18/04/2015, p3 

• Heroic Lee is a true champion, Limerick Leader 13/04/2015, p12 & 13
  

Camogie

• Limerick crowned camogie champions, Limerick Leader 15/09/2014, p12 & 13

• No Limerick switch for Kinnerk, Limerick Leader 20/09/2014, p1 & 3,4,5 [Sport]

• Camogie win built in defeat, Limerick Chronicle 16/09/2014, p37

• Champs join the heroes of '78 and '95, Limerick Leader 27/09/2014, p17    

Canoeing

• Canoe club for Limerick, Limerick Chronicle 18/11/1967, p5

Coursing

• The pioneer days of official open coursing in County Limerick, Limerick Leader 20/9/1952, p10

• When coursing folk went to Clounanna by outside cars, Limerick Leader 20/11/1954, p2

• photo & caption, Were prominent in early days of coursing in Co. Limerick, Limerick Leader 27/11/1954, p14

• 1986: racing memories course back in Clounanna, Limerick Leader 19/11/2011, p13

Cricket

• What has become of cricket in Limerick? Limerick Leader 4/8/1962, p13

Cycling

• photo of International Grand Prix Cycling Race, “Around the Houses”, Limerick Leader 19/5/1951, p2

Flying

• Successful air display run by Shannon Aero Club at Coonagh, Limerick Leader 15/9/1958, p1

• The early years of the Shannon Aero Club, Limerick Chronicle 7/3/1970, p5

• Flying Club plans still up in the air, Limerick Leader 13/2/2008, p3

Gaelic Football

• Story of the famous Commercials, Limerick Leader 30/9/1950, p11

• Gerry recalls day when sheep outnumbered spectators, Limerick Leader 1/5/2004

• 1887 All-Ireland Football Medal - €30,000 medal is now not the only one, Limerick Post 8/7/2006, p11

• Limerick minors of 1956 are honoured, Limerick Leader 21/10/2006, p4 (Sport)

• Foynes and Abbeyfeale [Co. senior football champions 1907 & 1914], Limerick Leader 21/10/2006

• supplement with Limerick Leader 12/7/2003 for Munster Football Final, Limerick v Kerry

• Limerick medal travels from Australia to Donegal [1887 All-Ireland medal], Limerick Post 14/2/2009, p21

• ‘A splendid victory’ [1896 Munster Snr Football Championship], Limerick Leader 4/7/2009, p15(Sport)

• (Pallasgreen) - Drom show their worth to win it again, Limerick Leader 3/11/2012, p4 & 5

• Pallasgreen get over the line at last, Limerick Leader 3/11/2012, p 8 & 9 (Sport)

• When Newcastle West last ruled, Limerick Leader 20/10/2012, p41

• Bruff snatch unlikely win in U -21 final, Limerick Leader 5/11/13, p8 (sport)

• GAA club marks 50th anniversary of win [Cappamore GAA], Limerick Leader 15/12/2014, p20 

Gaelic Games

• [The ban on playing ‘foreign games’] Better Gaelic teams if there were no ban [Rev. M. Kelly, Newcastle West], L. Leader 9/2/1952, p11

• Foley & Gavin set to launch GAA Yearbook, Limerick Leader 5/12/2009, p7 (Sport)
  

• Limerick GAA 125 year special Yearbook launches…, Limerick Post 5/12/2009, p68
  

• Gaelic Sports flourishes because it is never dull, Limerick Leader 19/08/1950, p4

• Centenary of the 'day of protest', Limerick Leader 04/08/2018, p48

Gaelic Grounds

• scanned aerial photo of the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Leader 13/7/1952

• aerial photograph of Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Leader 17/7/1954, p12

• Gaelic Grounds to have new 1,500 seater stand and new dressing rooms, Limerick Leader 10/8/1957, p11

• Hogan Stand blessed and opened at local Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Leader 28/4/1958, p1

• New era dawns for Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Leader 1/5/2004, p17

• Limerick GAA open Hogan Stand [1958] (Leader Memories), Limerick Leader 2/2/2008, p20

Golf

• Big weekend for Castletroy Golf Club [official opening of new clubhouse], Limerick Leader 6/6/1964, p8

• Limerick Golf Club marks 75 years of progress, Limerick Chronicle 22/1/1966, p5

• Adare Manor Golf Club: musings from the pen of the late Rev. Harry Beegan, C.C.
  

• Special magazine to mark 75 years of local golfing history, Limerick Leader 12/1/13, p15
  

• Play one of Ireland's oldest courses right here in Limerick, Limerick Leader 18/04/2015, p29

Greyhound Racing

• How the Leader’s Des saved dog racing, Limerick Leader 21/11/2009, p4 (Leader 2)

• photo, Lining up for greyhound racing in May 1963 [presumably at the Markets Field], Limerick Leader 22/2/2010, p13

• Greyhound racing – Racing out of the traps [feature], Limerick Leader 21/05/2016, p20 & 21

Handball

• National title winners [J. Moynihan, Claughaun & P. Hackett, St Munchin’s win the All-Ire Jnr Soft Ball title], L. Leader 2/10/1954, p13

• Handball game on the upsurge in Limerick City and County, Limerick Leader 5/11/1955, p14

Horse racing

• Horse racing in Limerick featured in the Out of the Past column by Robert Herbert, Limerick Leader 9/3/1953, p3

• A day at the races: the last meeting on the Newcastle course, Limerick Leader 14/3/1964, p10

• A day at the races [Newcastle Race Course], L. Leader 11/7/2009, p27 [re-print from L Leader 1964]

Hunting

• The story of Stonehall Harriers, Limerick Leader 8/2/1954, p3

• Dr. Pat Wallace to launch book on Stonehall Harriers Hunt, Limerick Post 22/10/2011, p33

• extract from book British and Irish Hunts and Huntsmen [Limerick Hunt and Scarteen Black & Tans]

• Information re The County Limerick Hunt [no source]

International rules

• International rules windfall for city, Limerick Leader 21/2/2009, p2

• International rules set for Gaelic Grounds, Limerick Leader 21/2/2009, p2 (Sport)

Long Distance Running

• Paul [Gleeson] to tackle 'holy grail' for explorers, Limerick Leader 25/8/2012, p 1&2 (Leader 2)

Motor Cycle Racing

• photo of race held by Limerick Motor Cycle Grass Track Club, Limerick Leader 9/5/1953, p1

Mountain Climbing

• Mark sets sights on top of the world for charity, Limerick Leader 11/12/2011, p9

Pigeon racing

• Hoping to retain championship [Bob Hamilton] & Exciting pigeon race concluded in Limerick today, Limk Leader 7/9/1959, p1

Powerlifting

• Limerick to host World Powerlifting Championships, Limerick Post 25/2/2006, p5

• City lifters power to world title, Limerick Leader 29/11/2006, p10

Rowing (see 'Boat Clubs' file)

• The future of Limerick rowing, Limerick Leader 3/8/1963, p20

• [Sinéad] Lynch: ‘It has been amazing journey’, Limerick Leader 20/08/2016, p13 (Sport) 

Rowing (long distance)

• Ecstatic rowers say never again, Limerick Post 4/3/2006, p6

• Limerick oarsman [Seán McGowan] takes Atlantic challenge, Limerick Post 13/6/2009, p73

• Seán [McGowan] bids for Atlantic crossing glory, Limerick Chronicle 16/6/2009, p4

• Seán [McGowan] to sail solo across the Atlantic, Limerick Post 3/10/2009, p37

• Seán [McGowan] needs a hand rowing into history, Limerick Leader 17/10/2009, p5

• Seán [McGowan] takes to the Atlantic waves like duck to water, Limerick Post 21/11/2009, p30

• Transatlantic solo rower Seán [McGowan] carries on…, Limerick Leader 30/1/2010, p22
  

• Seán inspired by letters from home, Limerick Leader 3/2/2010, p3

• Limerick rowers close to conquering Atlantic [Mike Jones], Limerick Independent 10/3/2010, p26

• UL rower’s Atlantic triumph honoured [Mike Jones], Limerick Chronicle 30/3/2010, p14
  

• UL rower reaches Barbados, Limerick Independent 31/3/2010, p22
  

Rugby/Soccer/Hurling

• photos of teams of rugby and soccer players who played each other in a hurling match, Limerick Leader 14/6/1952, p3
  

Snooker

• Snooker wizard Joe Davis in Limerick, Limerick Leader 31/10/1953, p5

Sports Museum

• Country’s first sports museum for Limerick, Limerick Post 18/2/2006, p.1

• Thomond Park link to sports museum is urged, Limerick Leader 31/3/2007, p2

• Ger [Hartmann] makes his clinical move, Limerick Chronicle 15/5/2007

• The Hartmann collection goes on show at UL, Limerick Chronicle 15/5/2007

• Legends donate their medals to Sports Museum, Limerick Leader 30/5/2009, p20

• Sports Museum planned for Parnell Street site, Limerick Post 5/12/2009, p17

Sports venues

• photo & caption, Plan of new athletics ground on quarry site [Hall’s Quarry, Prospect], Limerick Leader 3/11/1956, p14

• Markets Field on track for June 5 opening, Limerick Leader [sport] 16/05/2015, p26 

Swimming

• Shannon Swim [Thomond Swim] revived after a break of 21 years, Limerick Leader 12/7/2008, p20

• Thomond Swim cements place in Limerick’s sporting calendar, Limerick Leader 28/8/2010, p2

• Thomond Swim will make a splash, Limerick Leader 9/8/2011, p4

Water Polo

• Munster Senior Cup for Thomond, Limerick Leader 28/7/1951, p2

Weight-lifting

• City weight lifter breaks two Irish records [Paddy McMahon], Limerick Leader 7/12/1953, p4

• photo & caption, Limerick Weight-Lifting Club, Limerick Leader 5/10/1957, p11

• This weight-lifting club is doing great work for Limerick youth, Limerick Leader 11/11/1963, p3

Wrestling

• ad for international wrestling event at City Theatre, Limerick Leader 11/3/1961, p5 

• ad for wrestling event at St John’s Pavilion, Limerick Leader 3/8/1963, p4

• World-class stars at St. John’s : great international wrestling programme, Limerick Leader 3/8/1963, p20

• Referee floored at St John’s Pavilion, Limerick Leader 7/8/1963, p4

Yachting

• Dexterity, Golden Kopper lead Class 1, Limerick Leader 13/5/2006, p13

• photo of  Ger O'Rourke’s boat Chieftain, Limerick Post 8/7/2006, p51 [small cutting]

• ‘Chieftain’ in search of another big title, Limerick Leader 1/7/2006, p13 (Sport)

• ‘Chieftain’ sets sail for three in a row, Limerick Leader 12/8/2006, p15

• Classy Chieftain is first home, Limerick Leader 19/8/2006, p18

• Limerick’s Ger [O'Rourke] first Irishman to win famous Fastnet race, Limerick Leader 18/8/2007, p17

• Delta Lloyd China bound, Limerick Post 24/1/2009, p67

• Delta Lloyd feel the bite of tough conditions, Limerick Post 31/1/2009, p67

• Delta Lloyd in the points, Limerick Chronicle 12/5/2009, p8

• O'Rourke’s Delta Lloyd looking to build on improving form…, Limerick Post 16/5/2009, p73

Yachting & rugby

• Yachtsman and rugby heroes are feted, Limerick Post 29/9/2007, p21

 

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