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GAA Quiz answers &
results
Many thanks
to all who took the time to answer the 100 Question Quiz which we ran
at the end of 2008. Despite our best efforts, a number of entrants got
all questions correct.
From those correct entries we drew out one winner and seven runners up.
Congratulations to Diarmuid McRory from Dublin who wins the Eu300
first prize.
Hugh McClafferty from Donegal, Seamus McRory for Longford,
Joe Hunt from Longford, Barney Champion for Dublin, Anne
Flynn from Dublin, Noel Reilly from Dublin and Fintan O’Reilly
from Wexford all win Eu50 as runners up.
Below are all the questions and their answers.
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1) This
defender scored 0-24 in the 2008 All-Ireland senior football championship?
Aidan Carr
2) Clare’s Niall Gilligan equalled a record in the Banner’s senior
hurling championship clash with Waterford last summer. What is the record
and who held it?
In this game Niall struck his 20th senior championship goal, equalling
Clare’s record championship goal scorer, the great Jimmy Smith
3) The Chairman of the Limerick County Board during 2008 was?
Liam Lenihan
4) Cha Fitzpatrick got a bit of a dig from the hurley of Tom Kenny in the
2008 All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final. Who referereed this game between
age old rivals Kilkenny and Cork?
Michael Wadding of Waterford
5) After some ‘shenanigans’ two clubs were at one stage thrown
out of the 2008 Wexford under 21 hurling championship. Name them?
Buffers Alley and St. Martins. Buffers Alley were later allowed compete
6) This Waterford star had his appendix removed in June and later came back
to play with the Deise hurlers in the 2008 All-Ireland senior championship.
Who is he?
Aidan Kearney
7) Carlow gained Christy Ring cup honours in 2008. Who was the manager of
the Barrowsiders?
Jim Greene
8) Laois star Barry Brennan announced his retirement from both club and
county football in 2008. With which club did Barry line out?
Graiguecullen
9) Name three clubs operating in Armagh beginning with the letter B?
Ballymacnab, Belleek, Ballyhegan
10) How many points did Galway’s Micheal Meehan score against Kerry
in their All-Ireland senior football quarter-final clash in 2008?
Ten
11) Robbie Griffin was manager of which intercounty team in 2008?
The successful Kerry senior ladies combination
12) Pat Roe was manager of the Offaly senior football team during 2008.
Who were his two selectors?
Laz Molloy and Kieran Rigney
13) The winners of the popular Ted Webb under 16 tournament in 2008 were?
Roscommon
14) Peter Hanley Motors were the sponsors of which championship in 2008?
The Longford senior football championship
15) The Mayo senior hurlers employed a well known coach in 2008. Who was
he?
Pete Finnerty
16) The new Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces is a famous ex GAA
player and inter county manager. Who is he?
Kildare resident and former Roscommon star Dermot Earley
17) Drum and Inch supplied four starting players to the Tipperary senior
hurling team that went under to Waterford in the 2008 All-Ireland hurling
semi-final. Name them?
Eamonn Buckley, James Woodlock, Seamus Callinan and Seamus Butler
18) The referee of the 2008 All-Ireland minor hurling final was?
Cathal McAllister of Cork
19) Young Kilkenny star Richie Hogan hurls with which club?
Danesfort
20) The captain of Antrim’s Tommy Murphy Cup winning team in 2008 was?
Kevin Brady
21) Cork won the Munster minor hurling crown in 2008. Who managed the young
Rebels?
Ger Manley
22) What Cavan club were associated with the Powerade advertising campaign
in 2008?
Munterconnaught
23) The GAA club in Castledawson, County Derry is called after which Irish
saint?
St. Malachy
24) Which county won the All-Ireland ladies minor football title in 2008?
Dublin
25) Tell us the name of the Australian agent who established an AFC recruitment
camp at Breaffy, County Mayo during 2008?
Ricky Nixon
26) The manager of the Enniskillen Gaels senior team during 2008 was?
Dominic Corrigan
27) It was the first time since the monthly GAA All Star awards were introduced
at the beginning of the decade that the same county scooped the hurling
and football trophies for the same month. Galway performed this act last
June. Name the recipients?
Padraic Joyce and Joe Canning
28) Leitrim’s Emlyn Mulligan hit the headlines with his free taking
exploits against Galway in the 2008 Connacht championship. What club does
Emlyn play for?
Melvin Gaels
29) This Westmeath man was in charge of the Louth senior hurlers during
2008. Who is he?
Pat Clancy
30) Meath won the All-Ireland senior football championship in 1967. Two
members of that starting All-Ireland final fifteen later saw their sons
repeat this feat. Name these father and son combinations with All-Ireland
medals in their back pocket?
Noel and Paul Curran (with Dublin) and Pat and Paddy Reynolds
31) People living in Newbliss, Co. Monaghan play with which local club?
Killeevan
32) The year gone marked the death of a well known journalist from county
Sligo. He worked as a GAA correspondent with the Irish Times for years.
Who was he?
Sean Kilfeather
33) Who was Tyrone’s first football All Star?
Kevin McCabe in 1980
34) The Chairman of the Westmeath Hurling Board during 2008 was?
Billy Foley
35) How many GAA (male) All Star awards has Wicklow to its name?
One - Kevin O’Brien in 1990
36) Name the two Cork players sent off in the 2008 All-Ireland senior football
semi-final encounters with Kerry?
Donnacha O’Connor in the drawn game and Derek Kavanagh in the replay
37) The captain who led out the Wexford footballers last August before their
historic All-Ireland semi-final meeting with Tyrone was?
Colm Morris
38) Donegal’s Jimmy White was the man in charge of the thrilling 2008
All-Ireland semi-final replay, featuring Kerry and Cork. Jimmy is associated
with which Donegal club?
Killybegs
39) This 2008 All-Ireland final had an end scoreline of 3-15 to 1-7. What
was the grade and who were the participants?
The All-Ireland minor camogie A final. Kilkenny beat Clare
40) This intercounty manager was videoed by phone while presenting his half
time talk to his college team in 2008. It was later shown on the youtube
website. Who is the manager?
Clare native and Waterford manager Davy Fitzgerald
41) Meath won the All-Ireland Junior B camogie championship in 2008. Who
managed the Royals?
John Davis
42) The south Tipperary senior hurling winners in 2008 were?
Killenaule
43) Two Donegal clubs objected to the reappointment of team manager Brian
McIvor in early September 2008. Name the clubs?
St Eunans and Gweedore
44) At the end of May, a Monaghan man was the leader of the senior hurling
championship national scoring charts. Who is he?
Stephen Lambe
45) A member of a famous Galway footballing dynasty lined out for London
in their Connacht SFC defeat at the hands of Sligo. Who was he?
Chris Donnellan, brother of Michael and John and son of Pat
46) Name the oldest and youngest senior intercounty football managers who
ran the sidelines in 2008?
Oldest - Mick O’Dwyer (Wicklow), youngest - Michael Ryan (Roscommon)
47) Tyrone created history in their march to reach the All-Ireland final
in September, in relation to the sides they played against. What was so
unique about Tyrone’s path to the decider?
They were the first county to reach an All-Ireland final without beating
a team from their own province on the way
48) The RTE Man of the Match in the 2008 All-Ireland senior hurling final
was?
The RTE crew gave the award to Kilkenny manager Brian Cody
49) Young Pierce Hanley made a return to these shores after a stint in Australian
Rules football during the summer gone. With which GAA club does Pierce play?
Mayo club Ballaghaderreen
50) Over the past two years this county only played against two teams in
the the All-Ireland senior football championship. Name the county?
Longford. In 2007 they played Westmeath, Laois who beat them and Westmeath
who reversed an earlier result. Longford lost out to Westmeath in the first
round of the 2008 championship and again went under to Laois, this time
in the qualifiers
51) The winners of the 2008 Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland sevens title were?
St. Galls of Antrim
52) Name the 2008 winners of the MBNA long kick competition in both the
ladies and mens grades?
Paul Hearty of Armagh, in the mens event, while the ladies title was
claimed by Mary Sheridan of Meath
53) Which former Dublin star trained Carlow club O’Hanrahans during
2008?
Dave Foran
54) The winners of the All-Ireland B Masters competition in 2008 were?
Cavan
55) Aussie Rules star Marty Clarke played his gaelic football with which
Down club?
An Riocht
56) The full name of the GAA club in Tempo, County Fermanagh is?
Tempo Maguires
57) Who did Corofin beat after a replay in their semi-final of the 2008
Galway senior football championship?
Caherlistrane
58) Conneff Park is a GAA ground in which Irish town?
Clane, County Kildare
59) What have budding Kerry star Tommy Walsh and Cork All-Ireland winning
camogie captain Caitriona Foley got in common?
They are first cousins
60) New Leitrim football manager Mickey Moran added one local selector onto
his management team. Who is he?
Martin McGowan
61) The newest adult football club in Louth is?
Cuchulainn Gaels, who come from the Omeath area in the Cooley Peninsula
62) Pat Fitzgerald, formerly Limerick County Board Chairman and a native
of Down, took on which job in early 2008?
Pat was appointed Chief Executive of the Munster Council
63) Kinnity contested the Offaly senior hurling championship final of 2008.
When was the last year when the men from the footholds of the Slieve Bloom
contested a Faithful senior hurling decider?
All of 23 years ago, in 1985
64) What was the big GAA connection with Elaine Canning in 2008?
Elaine sang the national anthem before the Tyrone-Kerry All-Ireland senior
football final
65) Who were the first two teams to draw in the All-Ireland senior football
championship of 2008?
Down and Tyrone finished all square, 0-8 apiece after their first round
encounter in Omagh during early June
66) Who struck for the first score of the 2008 All-Ireland senior football
championship?
Kevin Mulligan of Longford hit the opening score of the game in his county’s
clash with Westmeath and the first score of the championship at Pearse Stadium
on May 11th
67) This young player celebrated his senior championship debut in 2008 by
scoring a goal from a penalty shot and then commenced his Leaving Cert a
few weeks later. Name him?
Michael Murphy of Donegal against Derry at Ballybofey
68) The only county to lose their senior provincial hurling crown during
2008 were?
Waterford, who lost to Clare in the opening round of the Munster championship
69) Former Irish rugby international Shane Byrne plays gaelic football with
which club?
Shane plays with Aughrim in Wicklow
70) Seamus Strain acts as secretary of which committee?
Seamus acts as secretary of the Armagh Hurling Committee
71) The contestants of the 2008 Derry intermediate football final were?
Greenlough and Ballymaguigan
72) Dublin had only three players nominated as possible GAA football All
Stars in 2008. Name the trio?
David Henry, Shane Ryan and Alan Brogan
73) The Celbridge club in Kildare had a famous Dublin All-Ireland winning
star training them during 2008. Who is he?
Barney Rock
74) Kerry completed a clean sweep of All-Ireland senior football titles
in 1975, senior, under 21 and minor. Four members of the starting All-Ireland
minor final fifteen also commenced the under 21 decider. Name them?
Charlie Nelligan, Sean Walsh, Jack O’Shea and Mick Spillane
75) This underage star played in the All-Ireland minor football finals of
1980, 1982 and 1983. Name him?
Derry’s Dermot McNicholl
76) Mayo and Cork met in the All-Ireland minor decider of 1971. Two of the
competing players later managed counties to All-Ireland senior success.
Who are they?
Future Galway boss John O’Mahony was at right full back for the
Connacht champions while Rebel supremo Jimmy Barry Murphy was on the edge
of the square for the opposition
77) Roscommon won the All-Ireland minor football title in 1951. Eleven years
later the men from the west were back on senior final day. How many Roscommon
players started on both occasions?
Only one. John Lynch was full back for both finals
78) How many All-Ireland football titles have Sligo engraved after their
name?
Unfortunately only one. The junior crown of 1935
79) This well known member of the famous Wexford All-Ireland hurling winning
team of 1956 sadly passed away in 2008. He was equally talented at composing
and singing ballads. Who was he?
Martin Codd
80) The National Young Hurling Referee presented with his award at the Referees
Banquet in Croke Park in January 2008 was?
James McGrath from the Turin club in Westmeath
81) Six Laois men have All Star awards after their name. List the six?
Pat Critchley in hurling (1985), while in football Colm Browne and Liam
Irwin (1986, Joe Higgins, Fergal Byron and Tom Kelly (2003)
82) When and who were the last Ulster team to win the All-Ireland senior
football championship final without playing a game in Clones?
Tyrone in 2008
83) Portumna again contested the Galway senior hurling final in 2008. When
was the last time that the men from the shores of Lough Derg were not involved
on Galway senior hurling final day?
The year 2002. Portumna have contested the last six finals
84) This club are geographically positioned in Roscommon but is very much
a Mayo unit when it comes to GAA competition. Name the club?
Ballaghaderreen who won the Mayo senior football final of 2008
85) Dreadnots is the Louth intermediate football champions for 2008. The
club is based in which seaside village?
Clogherhead, County Louth
86) Two clubs from the same parish contested their intermediate football
championship decider in 2008. Name the county and clubs?
St Ultans of Bohermeen beat fierce local rivals Cortown in the Meath
intermediate decider of 2008. The Coyne brothers lined out on each side
87) The winners of the Laois senior hurling championship receive which cup?
The Bob O’Keeffe Cup
88) What intercounty footballer also lined out with a team called Abrakebabra
Tigers in 2008?
Kerry inter county star Michael Quirke, who plays basketball with this
club
89) Billy Winder and Carlow GAA made headlines in 2008. For what reason?
Cameraman Billy was barred from entering Dr. Cullen Park for the county
senior hurling semi final clash featuring St. Mullins and Naomh Brid by
county secretary Tommy O’Neill
90) The recently appointed Cavan hurling manager for 2009 is?
John Hunt
91) Two teams commencing with the letter A contested this senior county
hurling final in 2008. Name the teams and county?
Ahane and winners Adare lined out in the Limerick senior hurling decider
92) The coach appointed to look after the Tipperary senior hurling team
for 2009 is?
Kilruane MacDonaghs Eamon O’Shea
93) How many Offaly SHC championship medals does Birr legend Brian Whelahan
now possess?
After Birr’s win over Kinnitty last October, Brian equalled Damien
Martins record haul of 13
94) Which club team did Navan native David Nelson manage in 2008?
Latton, who won the Monaghan SFC for the second time in four years
95) Crossmaglen Rangers won their 13th successive Armagh SFC final in October.
Six players have taken an active part in all 13 of those finals, who are
they?
Paul Hearty, Cathal Short, Oisin McConville, Tony McEntee, John McEntee
and Francie Bellew
96) This native of Mayo managed Meath club Wolfe Tones to junior success
in 2003, intermediate in 2004 and senior in 2006. He recently stepped down.
Name him?
Tony Kearney in 1971
97) A forward known more for his football exploits scored 1-2 in this year’s
Cork SHC final for Sarsfields. Who is he?
Michael Cussen
98) Name the current Fermanagh player who has appeared in an All-Ireland
SFC club final?
Goalkeeper Ronan Gallagher played in the 2006 final for Antrim club St.
Galls against Salthill-Knocknacarra
99) Paddy Russell retired after 26 years as an intercounty referee this
year. How many All-Ireland SFC finals did he referee?
Two - 1990 and 1995
100) How many senior football managers have Sligo had so far this millennium?
We marked this question correct for all entrants as most said six if
you didn’t allow for the recently appointed Kevin Walsh, it was seven
with Walsh and also possibly nine as there were two temporary managers in
Paul Durcan and John Kent. Also some felt Mickey Moran who served up until
2000 should not be included as the new Millennium started in 2001! All nine
possible managers were: Micky Moran, Peter Forde, James Kearns, Paul Durcan,
Dominic Corrigan, Tommy Brehony, Tommy Jordan, John Kent, Kevin Walsh |