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Their colours are red and white, hence their nickname the Bit 'O' Red. Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic Football Club, was born in Ballymote, in the south of the county. The county is represented in Gaelic Games by Sligo GAA. Their colours are black and white. Sligo has won the Connacht Championship 3 times.
Fans of Tyrone (red and white) and Meath (green and yellow) on Hill 16 in Croke Park watching the teams' 2007 All-Ireland football quarterfinal.. The county colours (Irish: dathanna na gcontaetha) [1] [2] of an Irish county are the colours of the kit worn by that county's representative team in the inter-county competitions of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), the most important of which ...
Tubbercurry is the most successful team in the history of the Club Championships in Sligo, with 20 senior titles to its name. The last of these was won in 2014. St Mary's is Sligo's most successful club team in the Provincial and All-Ireland club series with three Connacht Senior Club Football Championship titles to its name (1977, 1980 and 1983).
Castleconnor GAA are a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in rural western County Sligo [1] along the Sligo-Mayo border in Ireland. Castleconnor play in the Sligo Intermediate Championship and in Sligo League Division 2 and field underage football teams.
In the 1990s, Sligo opted for predominantly white shirts with black shorts, with exceptions in 1995 and 1996 when they wore an all-black strip. In 2001, the GAA fined Sligo for not wearing its registered county colours [clarify] [additional citation(s) needed] and after a win over Kildare decided to make the all-black kit its first choice. [3]
Entrance to Ransboro Park Sign pointing to Coolera/Strandhill GAA View of Ransboro Park. Coolera/Strandhill is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Coolera Peninsula, comprising the parish of Strandhill and Ransboro in County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.
St Michael's GAA (Sligo) St Patrick's GAA (Sligo) T. Tourlestrane GAA; Tubbercurry GAA; W. Western Gaels GAA
The Red Hand County, [2] [3] the Red Hands [87] [88] The Red Hand of Ulster on the county's GAA crest, also on the arms of the O'Neills [1] [2] Tyrone "Tyrone among the bushes" [2] Of unknown origin. Possibly popularised in a poem A Sigh for Old Times by Strabane poet William Collins who took part in the Fenian raids into Canada: