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The Longford County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae An Longfort) or Longford GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Longford. The county board is also responsible for the Longford inter-county teams
[edit] HistoryGeneral Despite the small population of the county, Longford emerged to win National Football League and Leinster Senior Football Championship titles in both 1966 and 1968, and have since contributed some outstanding personalities to GAA history. Colours Green and white hooped jerseys were used by Longford up to 1918 when a royal blue jersey with a gold sash was adopted. Around 1930 the sash disappeared but the gold trim was retained. [edit] Gaelic footballJackie Devine set up two goals for Longford in the last six minutes of the 1968 Leinster Senior Football Championship final to beat Laois by 3-9 to 1-4, where Sean Donnelly and Jim Hannify were the scorers. It was their only Leinster title, and it came two years after a great victory over Galway by nine points to eight in the National League final. When they lost a replayed Leinster semi-final in 1970 it was their fourth semi-final in six years. Victories over Westmeath and Wicklow in 1988 left the county on the verge of a Leinster final after twenty years. The team played well against Dublin and led by three points at half-time. Team manager and sports psychologist Brendan Hackett has cited what happened next in his book as an example of lack of self-belief in extremis: Dublin drew level with twenty minutes remaining and won by 18 points. Since first getting the taste in 1928, Longford like to beat Meath in the Championship, and shocked them in 1982. They forced Offaly to a replay in 1984, but all of the promise of the Under-21 teams who reached successive Leinster finals in 1981 and 1982 failed to materialise. In 2002 the countys minor team won the Leinster Minor Football Championship, the following year the county Vocational Schools team won the All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship [edit] Recent HistorySince the turn of the century Longford has failed to make any real strides in the championship and have only won two leinster ties, against Louth in 2001 by 1-11 to 1-9 and a great win against Westmeath in 2007 when they trailed by 8 points early in the second half but came back to win 2-13 to 1-13. Undoubtedly the 2006 championship was an exception when Longford proved to be the romance story of the championship. They began their leinster campaign with a narrow first round defeat against a highly fancied Dublin team losing 1-12 to 0-13. However all was not lost as they battled well in the backdoor with wins over Waterford, Tipperary and a fantastic 1-16 to 2-12 win at home to a good Derry side who were led by the superb Paddy Bradley (who scored 2-07). Their championship came to an end in the final round of the backdoor against eventual All-Ireland champions Kerry by 4-11 to 1-11 on the day Kieran Donaghy first embraced his new full-forward position. Despite this loss it was the first time in 38 years that Longford managed to stay in the championship till late July. [edit] Honours
[edit] HurlingLongford senior hurlers are currently competing in the Lory Meagher Cup.
[edit] Ladies' Gaelic football
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