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The first Gaelic match was a 7-a-side challenge between St Assam’s church altar-boys and a Capuchin altar boys team trained by a young Cork priest named Fr. Noel. Both sides had excellent players and it was evident that the potential was in Raheny for a good under 13 team. Ted Cooling then Co. Board Secretary and living in the parish kindly gave us the use of Clanna Gael grounds. When news got around that they were contemplating starting a new team, several overtures were made from well-established clubs to throw in our lot with them, with the promise of free boots, jerseys and equipment. Fr. Ryan decided to wait and see. In February of 1956 Fr Ryan mentioned to the ‘DOC i.e Fr Fitzpatrick P.P that he was thinking of writing to Padraic O’Keefe Gen.Sec of G.A.A about starting a G.A.A team in Raheny and enquiring if he could support us in any way. The ‘Doc’ was delighted and added that Fr Ryan remind him about his promise to grant the proceeds of a challenge game between Dublin and Kerry in Croke Park to the new church building fund. Padraic O’Keefe granted the challenge match from which the parish netted around £2,000, a fortune in those days. A fortnight later Sean O’Siochain Ass. Sec of the G.A.A arrived with fifty laminated hurleys, a football and four sliothars.
In Sept 1956 Scoil Assam entered into the Dublin Schools leagues in both football and hurling. As the boys were looking for games at the weekend, affiliation to the G.A.A evolved and Fr.Ryan and Jim Donegan entered teams into the Dublin North East Juvenile leagues. The club colours of maroon were chosen for the simple reason that Galway had won the All-Ireland on the 4th Sunday of Sept 1956. In 1956 Dublin Corporation allocated the a pitch on the old cricket-field used by the Plunkett family, the last private owners of St Anne’s Estate. Fr Ryan left Raheny in January 1960 to return to the Cashel Diocese.
The new club was established in 1958 and beginning to blossom and people like Jim Donegan, Fr. Foley, Roger Kavanagh, Tom Morrissey, Jim Hackett, Aidan O’Sullivan and Ray Kavanagh stepped in.
Raheny GAA are fielding over 50 teams in 2021 across Camogie, Gaelic Football, Hurling & Ladies Football. We have an active DARTS team competing in Dublin Leagues and the Ladies ‘GASS CRAIC’ club, who meet monthly for informative evenings and a bit of craic afterwards in the club lounge.
The club continues to play our home games from St Annes Park (Pitches 1, 6, 7, 9,10,12,12a,29). Our new skills wall and astro turf pitch with floodlighting was opened in September 2007. The club has a full time Games Promotion Officer (GPO) Niamh Duggan who coaches Gaelic Games in the local schools, runs the club OGRA Nursery and assists in Foundation Level Training for new mentors.
An extension to the clubhouse was completed in 2010 to include Gymnasium, Games Room, new club office, Kit Storage Rooms, Terrace, with new Sound and TV systems installed.
