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Gaelic sports club in County Galway, Ireland
Pádraig Pearse's GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in the Ballymacward-Gurteen parish in County Galway, Ireland. The club was founded in 1966, when the Gurteen and Ballymacward Junior Hurling clubs merged. Hurling is the dominant sport in the club, but the club also fields football teams. There has always been a strong tradition of hurling in the parish, with one of the earliest recordings in local press dated to 1882. The first club in the parish was officially affiliated to the G.A.A. in 1886.
Pádraig Pearse's GAA fields hurling teams from Under-6 to Senior level. Hurling Players from the club have represented Galway at all levels. In 2013 St Kerrill's Gaelic Football Club, which had been formed in 1990 and also representing the Ballymacward and Gurteen areas, was disbanded and Pádraig Pearses began fielding football teams. The adult football team compete at Junior level, with underage football teams competing in an amalgamation with Menlough GAA.
Fr Nicholas Murray, midfielder on 1959 and 1960 Fohenagh Galway Senior Club Hurling Championship winning team. Murray played Senior hurling with neighbouring Fohenagh, as there was no Senior Club in Gurteen-Ballymacward at the time.
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