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Sligo: Connacht: Black and White: At one time the Sligo jersey was all black, with a white band being later added. From 1970 the county teams wore mostly white, before switching to black shirts for a famous win over Kildare in the 2001 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship; Sligo have continued to wear black shirts since. [34] [35] [36 ...
Connacht plays its home games at the Dexcom Stadium, which currently holds 6,126 spectators and can be expanded to 8,129. [1] Connacht play in a predominantly green jersey, shorts and socks. The Connacht Rugby crest is a modified version of the provincial flag of Connacht and consists of a dimidiated eagle and an arm wielding a sword.
In 1962, Sligo reached the Connacht SFC final against Roscommon, and led for much of the match only to be blighted by a sudden string of injuries, miss a 50 while two points ahead in the final minute, and then gift soon-to-be All-Ireland SFC finalists Roscommon a goal in what is regarded as "one of the great football tragedies in Connacht". [6 ...
The 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 88th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament.
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).
Connacht: Sligo: Championship statistics; ← 1927. 1929 → . The 1928 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 42nd staging of Ireland's premier Gaelic ...
Andrew Kilcullen (born 18 March 2000) is a dual player of Gaelic games, i.e. hurling and Gaelic football, who plays for Sligo Championship club Easkey and at inter-county level for the Sligo senior hurling team. Born in Easkey, County Sligo, Kilcullen first played competitive football and hurling at juvenile and underage levels with the Easkey club
The Connacht campaign in the last months of 2011 again proved a successful one for St Brigid's and resulted in a Connacht two-in-a-row for the first time. After defeating Sligo champions Tourlestrane by 0–16 to 0–10 in Marckiewicz Park in the semi-final, they then faced Corofin in the final in Kiltoom, a repeat of the 2006 final.