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(Top) 1 County boards 2 Football 2.1 Provincial team 2.1.1 Players 2.2 Competitions 2.2.1 Inter-county 2.2.2 Club 3 Hurling 3.1 Provincial team 3.1.1 Players 3.2 Competitions 3.2.1 Inter-county 3.2.2 Club 3.2.3 Grades 4 Camogie 4.1 Gael Linn Cup 4.2 Gael Linn Trophy 5 County Honours 6 Governance 6.1 Past chairmen 7 References 8 External links

Leinster GAA

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Leinster GAA
Most All-Ireland titles
Irish:	Cúige Laighean
Location:	East
Number of counties:	12
Province colours:	Green White
Major grounds:	Croke Park UPMC Nowlan Park Laois Hire O'Moore Park Netwatch Cullen Park Echelon Park Aughrim
Hurling:	Kilkenny (35)
Football:	Dublin (30)
Most provincial titles
Hurling:	Kilkenny (69)
Football:	Dublin (60)
Interprovincial Championship wins
Hurling:	28
Football:	28
Standard kit
Regular kit

The Leinster Council is a provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, rounders and handball in the province of Leinster. The Leinster Council has been partnered with the European County Board to help develop Gaelic Games in Europe. Leinster Council's main contribution to this goal is the provision of referees.

As of 2008, there were 834 clubs affiliated to the county boards of the Leinster Council.^[1]

County boards[edit]

Carlow

Football[edit]

Provincial team[edit]

The Leinster provincial football team represents the provinceofLeinster in Gaelic football. The team competes in the Railway Cup.

Players[edit]

Players from the following county teams represent Leinster: Carlow, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow.

Competitions[edit]

Inter-county[edit]

Dublin heads the roll of honour in football, having won 54 Leinster Senior Football Championship titles as of 2015.^{[citation needed]}

Club[edit]

Hurling[edit]

Provincial team[edit]

The Leinster provincial hurling team represents the provinceofLeinster in hurling. The team competes in the Railway Cup.

Players[edit]

Competitions[edit]

Inter-county[edit]

Kilkenny is the most successful county hurling team at senior level in the province, having won the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship on 74 occasions as of 2022.^{[citation needed]}

Club[edit]

Grades[edit]

Championship	County team
Senior
Leinster SHC	Dublin
	Kilkenny
	Westmeath
	Wexford
Intermediate^{[citation needed]}
Joe McDonagh Cup	Carlow
	Kildare
	Laois
	Offaly

Christy Ring Cup	Meath
Junior^{[citation needed]}
Nicky Rackard Cup	Louth
Nicky Rackard Cup	Wicklow

Lory Meagher Cup	Longford

Camogie[edit]

Gael Linn Cup[edit]

The Leinster camogie team won the premier representative competition in the women's team field sport of camogie, the Gael Linn Cup on 26 occasions in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2006 and 2010.

Gael Linn Trophy[edit]

The Leinster provincial junior camogie team won the Gael Linn Trophy on seven occasions in 1976, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1999, 2001 and 2007.

County Honours[edit]

Rank	Team	Football		Hurling		Total		Most recent Provincial
Rank	Team	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title(s)	Runners-Up	Title	Runner-Up
1	Dublin	61	23	24	36	85	59	2022	2021
2	Kilkenny	3	5	74	31	77	36	2022	2019
3	Wexford	10	16	21	32	31	48	2019	2017
4	Meath	21	22	-	-	21	22	2010	2020
5	Offaly	10	9	9	14	19	23	1997	2006
6	Kildare	13	24	-	-	13	24	2000	2022
7	Laois	6	15	3	11	9	26	2003	2018
8	Louth	8	14	-	-	8	14	1957	2010
9	Westmeath	1	4	-	1	1	5	2004	2016
	Carlow	1	2	-	-	1	2	1944	1942
	Longford	1	1	-	-	1	1	1968	1965
12	Wicklow	-	1	-	-	0	1	-	1897

Governance[edit]

Past chairmen[edit]

Source:^[2]

James Nowlan Kilkenny - 1900–1904
John Fitzgerald - 1905–1908
Dan McCarthy Dublin- 1909–1910, 1919–1921
John J. Hogan - 1911–1918
Patrick D. Breen - Wexford 1922–1923
Bob O'Keeffe Laois - 1924–1935
Sean Robbins Offaly - 1936–1938
Seamus Flood - 1939–1941
Michael Kehoe Wexford- 1942–1944
Fintan Brennan - 1945–1947
Tom Walsh - 1948–1950
Jack Fitzgerald - 1951–1953
Dr. J. J. Stuart Dublin - 1954–1956
Hugh Byrne Wicklow- 1957–1959
Brendan Breathnach - 1960–1962
Liam Geraghty - 1963–1965
Bob Aylward^{[clarification needed]} - 1966–1968
Jack Conroy - 1969–1971
Tom Loftus Dublin - 1972–1974
Jimmy Roche Wexford- 1975–1977
Paddy Buggy Kilkenny - 1978–1980
John Dowling Offaly - 1981–1983
Peadar Kearney Louth - 1984–1986
Jack Boothman Wicklow - 1987–1989
Jimmy Gray Dublin - 1990–1992
Albert Fallon - Longford 1993–1995
Jim Berry - Wexford 1996–1998
Seamus Aldridge Kildare - 1999–2001
Nickey Brennan Kilkenny - 2002–2004
Liam O'Neill Laois - 2005–2007
Sheamus Howlin - Wexford 2008–2010
Martin Skelly Longford - 2011–2013
John Horan Dublin - 2014–2016
Jim Bolger Carlow - 2017–2019
Pat Teehan Offaly - 2020–2022
Derek Kent Wexford - 2023-

References[edit]

^ "GAA clubs by numbers". Irish Independent. 9 May 2009.

^ "Leinster Council Chairmen" (PDF). Leinster GAA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.

External links[edit]

Leinster Council website

Inter-county competitions under administration by the Leinster Council

Gaelic football

Hurling

v t e Governing bodies of the Gaelic Athletic Association
Provinces and counties as defined within Gaelic games
Provincial councils	Connacht Leinster Munster Ulster Britain
Connacht	Galway Leitrim Mayo Roscommon Sligo
Leinster	Carlow Dublin Kildare Kilkenny Laois Longford Louth Meath Offaly Westmeath Wexford Wicklow
Munster	Clare Cork Kerry Limerick Tipperary Waterford
Ulster	Antrim Armagh Cavan Derry Donegal Down Fermanagh Monaghan Tyrone
Britain	Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Lancashire London Scotland Warwickshire Yorkshire
Other counties	Asian Australasia Canada Europe New York United States
Non-county bodies	Annual Congress Deutscher Bund Gälischer Sportarten Féile na nGael Higher Education Irish Collegiate Handball Association Games Administration Committee Scór
Associated bodies	GAA Handball Camogie Association Ladies' Gaelic Football Association
Structure of the Gaelic Athletic Association

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