O'Tooles GAC
Cumann Uí Thuathail
Founded:1901
County:Dublin
Nickname:The Larriers
Colours:Green and White
Grounds:An Pairc Ui Thuthail, Ayrfield
Coordinates:53°23′52.41″N 6°11′04.43″W / 53.3978917°N 6.1845639°W / 53.3978917; -6.1845639
Playing kits
Home Kit
Change Kit
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions		 Dublin
champions
Football: 0 0 11
Hurling: 0 0 8

O'Tooles GAC (Irish: Cumann Uí Thuathail) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Ayrfield, Dublin, Ireland, formed in 1901.

History

Early years

O'Tooles GAC was formed in 1901 at 100 Seville Place in the north inner city of Dublin from the Gaelic League branch. The Gaelic League branch held their inaugural meeting in February 1901. Francis Cahill was one of the founding members of the club and Brother J.A. O’Mahoney, who was superior of O'Connell School was elected as the first president.

On Thursday 8 October 1901, after Irish classes the clubs first hurling team was formed. The captain of the team was Edward Keegan with Thomas Keegan elected as secretary and John Taylor as treasurer. In 1905 the club won their first competition, captained by Tim O'Neill, they won the Saturday Junior Hurling League.

August 1902 brought about the formation of the football team, with the clubs first major success arriving in 1910 in the form of the minor league.

In 1910, the St. Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band was formed with Tom Clarke elected president and playwright Seán O'Casey elected secretary.[1]

Easter Rising

On the morning of Monday 24 April 1916, around 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army arrived at a number of locations in Dublin. Among them were over 70 members of the O'Tooles club including two executed leaders, Tom Clarke (3 May) and Seán Mac Diarmada (12 May). Others involved included Liam Ó Briain, future TD and a professor of languages. Frank Robbins, future President of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and Tom Ennis who was later a Free State Army General.

O'Tooles members who fought in the Easter Rising
G.P.O. Jacob's St Stephen's Green Four Courts Boland's Mills South Dublin Union Ashbourne
David BegleyJames BarrettJames BroughamDan BegleyToby BreslinEdward KeeganPatrick Birney
Michael BradyVinny ByrneJoseph ConnellySean Cody
Tom ClarkeJames CassellsJames DonnellyJim Dempsey
James RedmondMichael ColganPatrick DuffyPatrick Kelly
Tom CrimminsLiam DalyJoseph DuffyBernard Murphy
Michael CrokeTom DrummRobert HumphreysSean O'Moore
Tom EnnisJames HannonTom KehoeThomas Yourell
John FitzharrisJames KennyJames LawlessThomas Smart
Frank HendersonThomas LostyMichael LawlessJohn Halpin
Sean KerrSean LynchJohnny McDonaldCharles McMahon
Thomas LeahyWilliam LynchDavid O'Leary
Laurence MackeyMick McDonnellDiarmuid O'Leary
Michael MackeyPaddy McDonnellTim O'Neill
Seán Mac DiarmadaMichael MeadeLiam O'Briain
Patrick MitchellOwen MeadeFrank O'Brien
John O'NeillJames MurranWillian O'Brien
Thomas J. RocheEdward O'HanrahanFrank Robbins
Hugh ThorntonJoseph O'HanrahanSean Rogan
Frank ThorntonMichael O'Rourke
Patrick J. WeaferSean O'Rourke
Thomas WheatleyKathleen Pollard
Josephine Pollard
Patrick Rooney
James Sheils
Denis Shelly
Thomas Shelly
Jim Slattery
Michael Smith
Johnny McDonnell

Bloody Sunday

On 21 November 1920, Dublin and Tipperary played a football challenge match in Croke Park. As a result of a mass shooting by the British Forces 14 innocent people including one player (Michael Hogan from Tipperary), died. It is estimated that around 60 – 100 people were also injured. O'Tooles have a deep connection with the events of this day as they contributed 12 players to the Dublin team with 9 players starting.

Dublin
Number Position Name
1GoalkeeperJohnny McDonnell
3Full backPaddy Carey
4Left corner backWilliam Robbins
5Right half backJohn Synnott
7Left half backJack O'Reilly
11Centre forwardPaddy McDonnell (c)
12Left half forwardJohn Carey
13Right corner forwardJoe Synnott
14Full forwardStephen Synnott

Substitutes: Tom Carey, Joe Norris & Tom Fitzgerald

Football

An amalgamation of O'Tooles and another local club Emeralds brought the golden age of football to the Seville Place club. The 1916 Dublin Intermediate Football Championship which was played in 1917 due to the number of players interned after the 1916 Rising heralded the beginning of the club's most successful football teams.

From 1918 to 1931, O'Tooles won 10 Dublin Senior Football Championship titles and produced the county's first five-in-a-row club team. During this period the club also contributed the majority of players to All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning Dublin teams, including producing All-Ireland winning captains in Paddy Carey and Paddy McDonnell.

Year Winners Runners-up
1946 O’Tooles Parnells
1931 O’Tooles Erin's Hope
1928 O’Tooles O'Dwyers
1926 O’Tooles Garda
1925 O’Tooles Kickhams
1924 O’Tooles UCD
1923 O’Tooles Garda
1922 O’Tooles St. Mary's
1920 O’Tooles Kickhams
1919 O’Tooles McCrackens
1918 O’Tooles Collegians

Hurling

A Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship was won 1956 and 1961 with a Dublin Junior Hurling Championship arriving in 1982. In 1969, O’Tooles made the breakthrough and won their first Dublin Senior Hurling Championship. Further success was achieved in 1977, 1984 and 1990.

During the 1990s, O'Tooles who three county titles in a row in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and reached the Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship final in 1996.

In 2002, O’Tooles defeated north side rivals and defending champions Craobh Chiaráin after a replay on a score line of 1–13 to 2–7.

Year Winners Runners-up
2002 O’Tooles Craobh Chiaráin
1997 O’Tooles St. Vincents
1996 O’Tooles Kilmacud Crokes
1995 O’Tooles St. Vincents
1990 O’Tooles St. Vincents
1984 O’Tooles Kilmacud Crokes
1977 O'Tooles Faughs
1969 O'Tooles Faughs

Present day

As of 2023, they currently compete in the Division 2 league and the Senior 3 championship in hurling. In football they are in the Division 3 league and the Dublin Intermediate Football Championship.

Honours

Dublin Senior Championships

Dublin Senior Leagues

Other Dublin Championship Wins

Other Wins

  • Boland Cup:
    • Winners: 1966, 1969
  • Smithwicks Cup:
    • Winners: 1968, 1969

[2]

Notable players

Senior inter-county footballers

Dublin
Kildare & Dublin
Meath & Dublin
  • Joe Norris, All-Ireland winner with Dublin

Senior inter-county hurlers

Dublin
Kilkenny & Dublin

Notable members

References

  1. ↑ Wren, Jimmy (17 July 2022). "The History of O'Tooles GAC".
  2. ↑ "Dublin GAA Roll of Honour". 17 July 2022.
  3. ↑ "Famous Kildare athlete retires". Leinster Leader. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  4. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Larry Stanley Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Legends of the Club: Con Clarke will forever have Larriers in his heart". Irish Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2022.
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