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Offaly Senior Hurling Championship

Annual hurling competition

Summary

Annual hurling competition

FieldValue
nameOffaly Senior Hurling Championship
currentlyrunning2024 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship
imageColours of Offaly.svg
codeHurling
founded
region[[File:Colours of Offaly.svg20pxborder]] Offaly
trophySeán Robbins Cup
teams10 (Senior)
6 (Senior B)
title holders[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Kilcormac–Killoughey
currentordinal7
most titles[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] Coolderry
mostordinal31
sponsorsMolloy Precast & Environmental Systems
tvTG4 (final only)
websiteOfficial website
firstwin[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Killoughey

6 (Senior B) The Offaly Senior Hurling Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Molloy Environmental Senior Hurling Championship) is an annual hurling competition contested by top-tier Offaly GAA clubs. The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1896.

Kilcormac–Killoughey are the title-holders, defeating shinrone by 1–24 to 2–14 in the 2025 final.

History

The title has been won at least once by 12 different teams. The all-time record-holders are Coolderry, who have won a total of 31 titles.

Since the beginning, the championship has been dominated by Coolderry, Birr, Drumcullen and St Rynagh's. They have won a combined total of 90 of the 124 championship titles. Coolderry dominated the first twenty years of the championship, winning eleven titles between 1889 and 1917. After this initial golden age, Coolderry regularly claimed championship titles in each of the following decades. After making their own breakthrough in 1908, Drumcullen went on to become the team of the decade during the 1920s after winning eight titles between 1918 and 1933. Tullamore and Birr subsequently came to the fore, winning eleven titles between them between 1932 and 1948.

Drumcullen enjoyed their most successful decade when they won seven championships between 1950 and 1960. This would be their last championship title. St Rynagh's inscribed their name on the roll of honour for the first time in 1965. They became the preeminent team of the next three decades and won 16 championship titles between 1965 and 1993. By this stage Birr had begun their own golden era. After winning their first championship in twenty years in 1991, the club went on to claim eleven more titles between then and 2008.

Format

The series of games are played during the spring, summer and autumn months with the county final currently being played at O'Connor Park in November. The prize for the winning team is the Seán Robbins Cup. Initially played as a knock-out competition, the championship currently features a group stage followed by a knock-out stage.

Teams

2024 Teams

The 10 teams competing in the 2024 Offaly Senior Hurling Championship are:

TeamLocationChampionship titlesLast championship title
[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] BallinamereBallykimurray0—
[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] BelmontBelmont0—
[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg20pxborder]] BirrBirr222008
[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] CoolderryCoolderry312018
[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Kilcormac–KillougheyKilcormac and Killoughey62024
[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] KinnittyKinnitty91985
[[File:Colours of Kilkenny.svg20pxborder]] Seir KieranClareen41998
[[File:Colours of Cork.svg20pxborder]] ShinroneShinrone12022
[[File:Colours of Clare.svg20pxborder]] St Rynagh'sCloghan and Banagher202021
[[File:Colours of Laois.svg20pxborder]] TullamoreTullamore102009

Honours

The winning team is presented with the Seán Robbins Cup. A native of Birr, Robbins served two terms as county chairman and served as Leinster Council chairman. He was also a president of the county board and was also a prominent referee at All-Ireland AND Leinster levels. The cup was first presented in 1960.

The Offaly Senior Hurling Championship winners qualify for the subsequent Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship. This place is reserved for club teams only as divisional and amalgamated teams are not allowed in the provincial championship.

The Offaly County Championship is an integral part of the wider Leinster Senior Club Hurling Championship. The winners of the Offaly county final join the champions of the other hurling counties to contest the provincial championship.

List of finals

Legend

  • – Leinster senior club champions
  • – Leinster senior club runners-up
  • (r) = replay

List of Offaly SHC finals

YearWinnersRunners-upClubScoreClubScoreNo competitionNo competition
1896Killoughey2-05Rahan1-00
1897Killoughey2-03Kinnitty2-01
1898Fortal2-01Killoughey0-01
1899Coolderry3-02Fortal1-01
1900Cadamstown3-00Fortal1-03
1901Coolderry4-00Killoughey1-03
1902Cadamstown3-01Tullamore3-00
1903CoolderryKilcormac
1904CoolderryTullamore
1905CoolderryKilcormac
1906CoolderryMoneygall
1907KillougheyKilcormac
1908DrumcullenBallinamere
1909TullamoreDrumcullen
1910CoolderryKilloughey
1911CoolderryEdenderry
1912BirrKilloughey
1913BirrEdenderry
1914CoolderryKilloughey
1915BirrRahan
1916CoolderryRahan
1917CoolderryTullamore
1918DrumcullenRahan
1919DrumcullenRahan
1920KinnittyCoolderry
1921
1922
1923KinnittyClara
1924DrumcullenClara
1925DrumcullenKinnitty
1926CoolderryTullamore
1927Drumcullen9–05Clara1–02
1928Drumcullen4–00Birr1–02
1929Drumcullen3–01Coolderry1–03
1930KinnittyCoolderry
1931CoolderryDrumcullen
1932TullamoreCoolderry
1933DrumcullenKinnitty
1934TullamoreDrumcullen
1935TullamoreClara
1936TullamoreRahan
1937TullamoreCoolderry
1938BirrCoolderry
1939CoolderryClareen
1940Birr4–08Edenderry2–01
1941Drumcullen2–05Birr0–07
1942Coolderry5–03Birr3–04
1943Birr2-08Tullamore2-04
1944Birr4-04Tullamore4-00
1945Coolderry4-06Tullamore2-03
1946Birr6-09Tullamore2-03
1947Coolderry4-06Birr2-03
1948Birr4-06Coolderry1-03
1949Coolderry9-09Drumcullen3-09
1950Drumcullen4-07Coolderry0-05
1951Drumcullen2-11Birr5-02
1952Drumcullen9-11Seir Kieran4-03
1953Coolderry4-04Rahan1-06
1954Drumcullen4-03Coolderry3-02
1955Tullamore4-10Drumcullen3-10
1956Coolderry3-05Drumcullen1-08
1957Drumcullen10–07Shannon Rovers1–03
1958Drumcullen3-05Coolderry1-08
1959Tullamore3-12Coolderry3-01
1960Drumcullen4-11Shinrone4-10
1961Coolderryw/oDrumcullen
1962Coolderry2-12Drumcullen1-05
1963Coolderry4-07Drumcullen3-04
1964Tullamore1–11St Rynagh's3–01
1965St Rynagh's2–12Coolderry1–09
1966St Rynagh's6–10Drumcullen4–05
1967Kinnitty4–08Coolderry3–06
1968St Rynagh's1–12Coolderry3–04
1969St Rynagh's4–07Kinnitty1–09
1970St Rynagh's1–12Kinnitty2–08
1971Birr2–10St Rynagh's2–09
1972St Rynagh's4–10Kinnitty1–06
1973St Rynagh's0–12Drumcullen1–07
1974St Rynagh's1–11Birr2–03
1975St Rynagh's0–05, 0–14 (r)Birr0–05, 0–08 (r)
1976St Rynagh's3–11Kinnitty0–05
1977Coolderry1–07Kinnitty1–06
1978Kinnitty1–08St Rynagh's0–06
1979Kinnitty5–08Coolderry1–11
1980Coolderry3–03Kinnitty1–05
1981St Rynagh's1–10Kinnitty1–07
1982St Rynagh's2–09Lusmagh0–11
1983Kinnitty0–20St Rynagh's2–06
1984Kinnitty1–12St Rynagh's1–06
1985Kinnitty3–18Seir Kieran2–08
1986Coolderry3–08St Rynagh's1–10
1987St Rynagh's0–11Seir Kieran0–09
1988Seir Kieran3–13St Rynagh's4–06
1989Lusmagh1–11Seir Kieran1–10
1990St Rynagh's2–06Birr1–07
1991Birr1–12Seir Kieran1–11
1992St Rynagh's0–10Lusmagh0–09
1993St Rynagh's1–16Birr1–14
1994Birr0–08Seir Kieran0–07
1995Seir Kieran1–13, 0–10 (r)St Rynagh's1–13, 0–09 (r)
1996Seir Kieran0–13St Rynagh's1–08
1997Birr0–14Seir Kieran2–04
1998Seir Kieran1–10, 1–11 (r)St Rynagh's0–13, 0–09 (r)
1999Birr3–15St Rynagh's1–11
2000Birr3–21Seir Kieran1–09
2001Birr0–11St Rynagh's0–10
2002Birr3–11Kilcormac–Killoughey2–07
2003Birr1–18Ballyskenagh1–11
2004Coolderry3–10Birr2–11
2005Birr0–20Coolderry0–05
2006Birr0–11, 2–09 (r)Coolderry1–08, 1–11 (r)
2007Birr0–15Kilcormac–Killoughey0–10
2008Birr1–15Kinnitty0–15
2009Tullamore2–12Kilcormac–Killoughey0–11
2010Coolderry3–15Tullamore1–12
2011Coolderry2–14Birr0–16
2012Kilcormac–Killoughey2–16St Rynagh's2–12
2013Kilcormac–Killoughey1–21Birr1–14
2014Kilcormac–Killoughey2–18St Rynagh's1–09
2015Coolderry2–15St Rynagh's1–16
2016St Rynagh's2–16Birr1–15
2017Kilcormac–Killoughey2–16St Rynagh's1–16
2018Coolderry2–17Kilcormac–Killoughey0–17
2019St Rynagh's0–16Birr1–12
2020St Rynagh's1–19Kilcormac–Killoughey1–13
2021St Rynagh's1–11Coolderry0–12
2022Shinrone0–26Kilcormac–Killoughey2–13
2023Kilcormac–Killoughey3–26Shinrone3–08
2024Kilcormac–Killoughey0–16Ballinamere1–11
2025Kilcormac–Killoughey1-24Shinrone2-14

Roll of honour

By club

#ClubTitlesRunners-upChampionship winsChampionship runner-up
1[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] Coolderry31181899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1916, 1917, 1926, 1931, 1939, 1942, 1945, 1947, 1949, 1953, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1977, 1980, 1986, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2015, 20181920, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1937, 1938, 1948, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1979, 2005, 2006, 2021
2[[File:Colours of Mayo.svg20pxborder]] Birr22131912, 1913, 1915, 1938, 1940, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1971, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 20081928, 1941, 1942, 1951, 1974, 1975, 1990, 1993, 2004, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019
3[[File:Colours of Clare.svg20pxborder]] St Rynagh's20161965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 2016, 2019, 2020, 20211964, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017
4[[File:Flag of Liechtenstein (1852-1921).svg20pxborder]] Drumcullen17111908, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1941, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957, 1958, 19601909, 1931, 1934, 1949, 1955, 1956, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1973
5[[File:Colours of Laois.svg20pxborder]] Tullamore1091909, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1955, 1959, 1964, 20091902, 1904, 1917, 1926, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 2010
6[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] Kinnitty9111920, 1923, 1930, 1967, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1984, 19851897, 1925, 1933, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 2008
7[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Kilcormac–Killoughey782012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2023,2024, 20251903, 1905, 1907, 2007, 2008, 2018, 2020, 2022
8[[File:Colours of Kilkenny.svg20pxborder]] Seir Kieran471988, 1995, 1996, 19981952, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000
9[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Killoughey351896, 1897, 19071898, 1901, 1910, 1912, 1914
10[[File:Colours of Limerick.svg20pxborder]] Cadamstown201900, 1902—
11[[File:Colours of Cork.svg20pxborder]] Lusmagh1219891982, 1992
Fortal1218981899, 1900
[[File:Colours of Cork.svg20pxborder]] Shinrone1220221960, 2023
14Rahan07—1896, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1936, 1953
[[File:Colours of Sligo.svg20pxborder]] Clara04—1923, 1924, 1927, 1935
[[File:Colours of Cork.svg20pxborder]] Edenderry03—1911, 1913, 1940
Moneygall01—1906
[[File:Colours of Kilkenny.svg20pxborder]] Clareen01—1939
Shannon Rovers01—1957
[[File:Colours of Kerry.svg20pxborder]] Ballinamere01—2024

Records and statistics

Managers

Managers in the Offaly Championship are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and sourcing of players. Their influence varies from club-to-club and is related to the individual club committees. The manager is assisted by a team of two or three selectors and a backroom team consisting of various coaches.

ManagerTeam(s)WinsWinning years
Pad Joe WhelehanBirr81997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008
Ken HoganBirr
Coolderry
St Rynagh's61991, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020, 2021
Danny OwensKilcormac–Killoughey32012, 2013, 2014
John GoodeBirr22005, 2006
Kevin MartinTullamore12009
Johnny KellyCoolderry12015
Francis FordeSt Rynagh's12016
Stephen ByrneKilcormac–Killoughey12017
Joachim KellyCoolderry12018
Trevor FletcherShinrone12022
Shane HandKilcormac–Killoughey12023

Teams

By decade

The most successful team of each decade, judged by the number of Offaly Senior Hurling Championship titles, is as follows:

  • 1890s: 2 for Killoughey (1896–97)
  • 1900s: 5 for Coolderry (1901–03–04–05–06)
  • 1910s: 5 for Coolderry (1910–11–14–16–17)
  • 1920s: 5 for Drumcullen (1924–25–27–28–29)
  • 1930s: 5 for Tullamore (1932–34–35–36–37)
  • 1940s: 5 for Birr (1940–43–44–46–48)
  • 1950s: 6 for Drumcullen (1950–51–52–54–57–58)
  • 1960s: 4 for St Rynagh's (1965–66–68–69)
  • 1970s: 6 for St Rynagh's (1970–72–73–74–75–76)
  • 1980s: 3 each for St Rynagh's (1981–82–87) and Kinnitty (1983–84–85)
  • 1990s: 4 for Birr (1991–94–97–99)
  • 2000s: 8 for Birr (2000–01–02–03–05–06–07–08)
  • 2010s: 4 for Kilcormac–Killoughey (2012–13–14–17) 4 for Coolderry (2010–11–15–18)

Gaps

Top ten longest gaps between successive championship titles:

  • 45 years: Tullamore (1964–2009)
  • 44 years: Kinnitty (1923–1967)
  • 23 years: Tullamore (1909–1932)
  • 23 years: Birr (1915–1938)
  • 23 years: Birr (1948–1971)
  • 23 years: St Rynagh's (1993–2016)
  • 20 years: Birr (1971–1991)
  • 18 years: Tullamore (1937–1955)
  • 18 years: Coolderry (1986–2004)
  • 14 years: Coolderry (1963–1977)

Top scorers

By year

YearTop scorerTeamScoreTotal
2008Shane DooleyTullamore5–3247
2009Joe BerginSeir Kieran5–6378
2010Shane DooleyTullamore7–6182
2011Damien MurrayCoolderry2–4046
2012Ciarán SlevinKilcormac–Killoughey2–5561
2013Ciarán SlevinKilcormac–Killoughey1–7578
2014Brian CarrollCoolderry4–6375
2015Damien MurrayCoolderry4–6375
2016Colm CoughlanKinnitty1–6871
2017Joe BerginSeir Kieran7–5475
2018Aidan TreacySt Rynagh's1–8285
2019Eoghan CahillBirr2–8389
2020
2021
2022Eoghan CahillBirr1–6467
2023Brian DuignanBallinamere1–3841

References

References

  1. (15 October 2016). "Winning captains honoured at Offaly decider". Hogan Stand.
  2. (17 October 2011). "Connolly goal puts icing on cake for Coolderry". [[Irish Independent]].
  3. (8 October 2012). "Glory for Kilcormac/Killoughey". [[Irish Examiner]].
  4. (6 October 2013). "Kilcormac-Killoughey retain Offaly senior hurling crown". The Score.
  5. (20 October 2014). "Currams leads charge for three-in-a-row Offaly champs". [[Irish Independent]].
  6. (19 October 2015). "Brady's late strike revives Coolderry". [[Irish Independent]].
  7. (24 October 2016). "St Rynagh's withstand Birr charge". [[Irish Examiner]].
  8. (1 October 2017). "Offaly SHC final: Kilcormac-Killoughey reign supreme". [[Hogan Stand]].
  9. (2 October 2022). "Shinrone make history with first Offaly SHC title". [[Hogan Stand]].
  10. (15 October 2023). "Emphatic Kilcormac-Killoughey return to Offaly hurling summit". [[Hogan Stand]].
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