Naomh Molaise Gaels GAA

Sligo-based Gaelic games club

Naomh Molaise Gaels

Gaeil Naomh Molaise

County:

Sligo

Colours:

Green and White

Grounds:

Monsignor Hynes Park, Grange^[1]

Playing kits

Standard colours

Naomh Molaise Gaels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club covering much of the northern area of County Sligo, comprising Cliffoney (Ahamlish) and part of the Drumcliffe/Maugherow parishes. The club is a combination of a number of older clubs, including Grange, Cliffoney and Maugherow, and had fielded as Grange–Cliffoney before adopting the present name in 2003. Currently the champions of the Dr Taheny Cup for the minor A championship, a first-time achievement for the club.

Cyril Haran played for the club when it was known as Grange and was later a coach and club president.^[2]

Notable players

Cyril Haran (as Grange)
Mattie Hoey, former Sligo captain who won a Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1975, played for Connacht in the Railway Cup and listed as number 12 in a 2020 Irish Independent list of top players over the previous 50 years (ahead of Dessie Sloyan)^[3]

Haran (president) and Hoey (chairman) were both still involved with the club, as of 2011.^[4]

Honours

N.B. Honours prior to 2003 won as Grange unless otherwise stated.

Sligo Intermediate Football Championship: (5)
- 1981, 1994, 2001, 2008, 2016, 2022
Sligo Junior Football Championship: (8)
- 1959, 1969, 1975, 2001 (Maugherow - 1933, 1941, 1991, Northern Gaels - 1982)
Sligo Under 20 Football Championship: (1)
- 1977
Sligo Minor A Football Championship: (2)
- 2018, 2020
Sligo Minor Football Championship: (1)
- (Cliffoney - 1945)
Sligo Under-16 Football Championship: (2)
- 2006, 2017
Sligo Under 14 Football Championship: (1)
- 2017
Sligo Senior Football League (Division 1): (1)
- 2011
Sligo Intermediate Football League Division 3 (ex Div. 2): (3)
- 1987, 2001, 2008
Sligo Intermediate Football League (Division 4): (1)
- 2008
Sligo Junior Football League (Division 5) (4)
- 1973, 1974, 2000, 2007
Kiernan Cup: (3)
- 1984, 1997, 1998
Benson Cup: (2)
- 1987, 1994

References

^ "Sligo's Bunninadden grab promotion as Tourlestrane and Coolera/Strandhill to contest Div 1 league final". Independent.ie. 3 August 2022.
^ "Fr Cyril Haran played huge role in Sligo GAA circles: Priest also remembered as renowned scholar and teacher". The Sligo Champion. 1 July 2014.
^ "Top 20 Hurling and Football Players in each County over last 50 years". 28 May 2020. Archived from the original on 8 September 2022.
^ "Molaise Gaels". Independent.ie. 15 December 2011.