- Ballyporeen, Church St, Ballyporeen. E21YP99
Ballyporeen GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the parish of Ballyporeen in County Tipperary in Ireland. The club plays Gaelic football at Senior level as part of the South division of Tipperary GAA. The handball section of the club has also had considerable success.
The club fields Minor, Under-21 and Senior football teams. At juvenile level the Ballyporeen club also takes in footballers from, and provides hurlers for, the hurling club in the neighbouring townland of Skeheenarinky, part of the same parish.
The club was founded in 1887, just three years after the formation of the GAA.
Historically the club has played under various names including Templetenny Rangers,[1] Western Rangers[2] and the Brian Borus, a team made up of members from Ballyporeen and Clogheen. Currently (2016) the team is closely linked with the hurling club in Skeheenarinky. Their common home ground is in Ballyporeen where there is access to modern dressing rooms and floodlighting.
Ballyporeen’s most notable victories at county level to date were in 1992 and 2013, when it secured the Intermediate titles. The club advanced to the county’s Senior championship, and retained that rank in a relegation play-off in October 2015.
Ballyporeen took part in the fourth series of the reality television show, Celebrity Bainisteoir, which was broadcast in Autumn 2011. Model Gillian Quinn was the club’s celebrity mentor.[3] After losing the “swim off” against the Laois club Killeshin, the latter got home advantage and went on to eliminate Ballyporeen in the first round.
