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1979 – Kilmac’s great year
Below is excerpts from the Bray People giving us an insight into Kilmac’s great year. A year in which they captured The Wicklow People Cup, the Junior Championship, the Junior League and the Schweppes Cup. Kilmac’s Great year The Annual General...
The 1972 Wicklow People Cup
The following are match reports from the latter end of the 1972 Wicklow People Cup. Kilmac beat a Ballinastoe team with a marvelous 4 goal rout from Fr. Ben Mulligan in the semi-final and drew with Kilcoole in the final. Kilmacanogue are in the Wicklow...
Double honors for Hurlers in 2001
2001 was a fantastic year for the Kilmacanogue/Enniskerry hurlers. After only two years in re-existance they claimed the Wicklow Junior B Championship and later on that year brought the Tobin Cup home from Dublin. Below are match reports from the two...
Ladies Football in the 90’s
A Kilmac Ladies football team reemerged in the mid 1990’s and they claimed County honors in 1997. This is a team picture from 1996 which made the headlines not only in the sport’s section but in the national newspapers also. This team picture...
1959 Intermediate Championship Victory Poem
Oh! The 13th of September was a day of glory done, When our football Gaels from Kilmac Vales the Intermediate won. Dressed in their emerald green and gold, they made a fine display, When they won the County Championship on Aughrim plains that day. *** The...
The story of the 1981 League
The Semi-Final November 15th 1981 Kilmacanogue and Laragh ended in stalemate on Sunday last in the semi-final of the county junior football league played at Emmet Park, each scoring 1-4. This was the first game in Emmet Park for a number of months and...
Kilmacanogue hang to pip Valleymount in exciting tie
Kilmacanogue 2-06 Valleymount 2-05 It may only have been the curtain raiser to the main event of the afternoon, but Sundays Casey Concrete Junior A produced a game which would have been well worth coming to see on its own. The final...
Kilmac shock Newtown in Wicklow People Cup – 1979
Kilmac 2-6 Newtown 0-9 The unexpected happened at Emmet Park on Sunday when Kilmacanogue’s junior footballers, playing determined and resourceful football, shocked Newtown, the holders and warm pre-match favourites, in the final...
A tribute to Kilmac – Peter Keogh 1997
The Glencormac Inn in the Shadows of the Sugarloaf was the place to be in North Wicklow on Sunday night. The footballers of Kilmacanogue had just won the Junior A football championship for the fourth time and the proud people of that little village turned...
