Club Titles – IFC A

Ardagh Moydow 1-11
St. Brigids Killashee 0-6
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Date: 5th October 2025
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: James McGoey
Man of Match: Dylan Coady
Referee: Joe McDermott

Fr. Manning Gaels 1-6
Seán Connollys 0-6
↓
Date: 26th October 2024
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: John Paul Farrelly
Man of Match: Martin Cassidy
Referee: Mark Glancy (Rathcline)

Note: The final was initially scheduled for 20th October, however it was postponed on the day due to weather conditions and re-scheduled for Saturday 26th October. 

Kenagh 2-9
Seán Connollys 0-13
↓
Date: 15th October 2023
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Shane Doyle
Man of Match: Shane Farrell
Referee: John Cullen (Mostrim)

Note: Due to a clash of colours with Seán Connollys, the Kenagh team played in the Longford county away kit.

Ballymahon 3-4
Fr. Manning Gaels 1-9
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Date: 9th October 2022
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Kevin Diffley & Emmet Finn
Man of Match: John Nevin
Referee: Hugh O’Kane (Young Grattans)

Note: This title was won by a Ballymahon team which also included players from St. Munis Forgney club, participating via the Group Team rule Rule 3.17(n)(ii). 

St. Brigids Killashee 2-4
Ballymahon 0-5
↓
Date: 6th November 2021
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Michael Farrell
Man of Match: Johnny Casey
Referee: Tony Gaffney (Mostrim)

🔗 Match Programme Link

St. Brigids Killashee 2-12
Ardagh Moydow 1-9
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Date: 22nd August 2021
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Michael Farrell
Man of Match: Dylan Farrell
Referee: Hugh O’Kane (Young Grattans)

🔗 Match Programme Link

Note 1: The 2020 IFC final was delayed due to Covid-19 pandemic and was not completed until August 2021.

Note 2: Ardagh Moydow club was formed in 2019 when Ardagh St. Patricks and Moydow Harpers clubs merged. ( Image) ( Details)

Fr. Manning Gaels 2-14
Ballymahon 0-11
↓
Date: 29th September 2019
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Darren Farrelly
Man of Match: Conor Keenan
Referee: Donal Kane (Young Grattans)

Rathcline 2-14
Ardagh/Moydow 1-13
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Date: 14th October 2018
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Shane Donohoe
Man of Match: Iarla O’Sollivan
Referee: Patrick Maguire (St. Marys Granard)

Rathcline 1-11
Ardagh/Moydow 1-11
↓
Date: 30th September 2018
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Fergal Kelly (Ballymahon)

Rathcline 1-11
Ardagh/Moydow 1-11
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Date: 23rd September 2018
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Gerard Egan (St. Marys Granard)

Note 1: Ardagh St. Patricks & Moydow Harpers competed as a Group Team called Ardagh/Moydow from 2016 to 2018.

Note 2: The 2018 Convention saw a motion tabled by Abbeylara calling for the IFC to be scrapped resulting in clubs which currently ply their trade at Intermediate level being regraded to Junior status instead. The motion was not successful. 

Rathcline 1-10
Seán Connollys 0-12
↓
Date: 24th September 2017
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Aaron Madden
Man of Match: Shane Donohoe
Referee: Patrick Maguire (St. Marys Granard)

Note: The 2017 Intermediate Championship was marred by a violent bust up at the end of the Young Grattans vs Legan Sarsfields match in Ballymahon on 22nd July 2017, which made national news at the time. Young Grattans won 1-12 to 1-8, but the game ended in controversy after red and black cards were issued. A player was then struck by a bottle and a 40 person free-for-all ensued which resulted in a total of seven red cards, and both clubs being thrown out of the Intermediate Championship. Both clubs were later reinstated following an appeal.

St. Brigids Killashee 1-11
Cashel 0-6
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Date: 25th September 2016
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Gerard Evans
Man of Match: Gerard Evans
Referee: Fergal Kelly (Ballymahon)

🔗 Match Programme Link

Rathcline 3-5
St. Brigids Killashee 0-9
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Date: 13th September 2015
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Kevin Chapman
Man of Match: James Carroll
Referee: Patrick Maguire (St. Marys Granard)

🔗 Match Programme Link

Carrickedmond 0-9
Seán Connollys 0-8
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Date: 5th October 2014
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Barry O’Farrell
Man of Match: Garret Higgins
Referee: John Hughes (Killoe Young Emmets)

Carrickedmond 0-7
Seán Connollys 0-7
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Date: 28th September 2014
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Donal Kane (Young Grattans)

Ardagh St. Patricks 0-8
Carrickedmond 0-7
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Date: 6th October 2013
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Paddy Ganley
Man of Match: Enda Ward
Referee: Michael O’Brien (Longford Slashers)

Ardagh St. Patricks 0-4
Carrickedmond 0-4
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Date: 29th September 2013
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Ger Carberry (Killoe Young Emmets)

Note: In the relegation playoff final, Seán Connollys lost to Ballymore by 0-7 to 0-11, however a subsequent County Board meeting agreed that there would be no relegation from Intermediate to Junior in 2013 so Seán Connollys remained at Intermediate grade. 

St. Marys Granard 0-11
Cashel 0-10
↓
Date: 30th September 2012
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Brian Sheridan
Man of Match: Stephen Lynch
Referee: Fergal Kelly (Ballymahon)

Note: Minute silence observed before the game as a mark of respect for Larry Cunningham, the showband star and former Granard footballer.

St. Brigids Killashee 1-9
Ballymore 0-5
↓
Date: 25th September 2011
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Tony Dooner
Man of Match: Keelan Cox
Referee: John Bannon (Legan Sarsfields)

Carrickedmond 2-11
Ballymore 0-5
↓
Date: 12th September 2010
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: John O’Shea
Man of Match: John O’Shea
Referee: Michael O’Brien (Longford Slashers)

Cashel 1-10
Carrickedmond 0-6
↓
Date: 27th September 2009
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Ger Dennigan
Man of Match: Kieran Mulvihill
Referee: Frank Toher (Killoe Young Emmets)

Cashel 0-13
St. Brigids Killashee 1-8
↓
Date: 14th September 2008
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Gary Kenny
Man of Match: Peter Foy
Referee: Eugene Murtagh (Seán Connollys)

Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 1-10
Kenagh 2-6
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Date: 7th October 2007
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Kevin Mulligan
Man of Match: Kevin Mulligan
Referee: Derek Fahy (Ballymahon)

Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 1-11
Kenagh 1-11
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Date: 23rd September 2007
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Aidan Dowler (Moydow Harpers)

Ardagh St. Patricks 1-16
Kenagh 1-6
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Date: 15th October 2006
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Seamus Shortt
Man of Match: Brian Kavanagh
Referee: Eugene Murtagh (Seán Connollys)

Rathcline 0-11
Ardagh St. Patricks 1-7
↓
Date: 2nd October 2005
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Ciaran Kenny
Man of Match: Ronan Clyne
Referee: Peter O’Reilly (Abbeylara)

Ballymore 2-10
Killoe Young Emmets 1-7
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Date: 19th September 2004
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Dessie Flynn
Man of Match: Seamus Boyle
Referee: Stephen Tierney (Mostrim)

Note: This was Killoe’s second team.

St. Brigids Killashee 0-8
Ballymore 1-4
↓
Date: 5th October 2003
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Eamon Farrell
Man of Match: Derek Steele
Referee: T.P. Pettit (Dromard)

St. Marys Granard 0-9
Kenagh 0-6
↓
Date: 6th October 2002
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Paul Daly
Man of Match: Stephen Lynch
Referee: Pauric McGee (Fr. Manning Gaels)

Note: This was St. Marys Granard second team.

Carrickedmond 1-6
St. Brigids Killashee 0-5
↓
Date: 30th September 2001
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Tommy Cummins
Man of Match: Dermot McCormack
Referee: Frank Toher (Killoe Young Emmets)

Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 2-9
Dromard 1-9
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Date: 3rd September 2000
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Christy Reilly
Man of Match: Kevin Mulligan
Referee: Tommy Donohoe (Rathcline)

Note: This was Dromard’s second team.

New Structure: A new format was introduced in 2000 with a total of 14 teams in Intermediate Championship including the six Intermediate clubs and along with eight second string teams from senior clubs. Groups 1 and 2 were played on a league basis while Group 3 was a draw for a series of straight knockout games between teams. The Quarter Finals were comprised of top 4 from Groups 1 and 2 along with the winners of the 4 straight knockout games in Group 3. Kenagh made the decision to self-relegate to Intermediate in 2000 after struggling at Senior grade in the few years prior. 

Group 1:
Ballymore
Carrickedmond
Shroid Slashers

Group 2:
Mullinalaghta St. Columbas
St. Brigids Killashee
Rathcline

Group 3:
Ardagh St. Patricks B v Dromard B
Killoe Young Emmets B v Longford Slashers B
St. Marys Granard B v Kenagh B
Fr. Manning Gaels B v Mostrim B

Cashel 1-16
St. Brigids Killashee 0-8
↓
Date: 5th September 1999
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Gordon Smyth
Man of Match: Jack Healy
Referee: Eugene Murtagh (Seán Connollys)

Ballymahon 1-10
Carrickedmond 1-7
↓
Date: 6th September 1998
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Colm McCormack
Man of Match: Trevor Smullen
Referee: Peter O’Reilly (Abbeylara)

Clonguish 2-7
Ballymahon 1-9
↓
Date: 7th September 1997
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Luke McGuinness
Man of Match: Stephen Looby
Referee: Frank Toher (Killoe Young Emmets)

Cashel 2-11
Carrickedmond 0-5
↓
Date: 25th August 1996
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Michael Dowd
Man of Match: Derek Farrell
Referee: Peter O’Reilly (Abbeylara)

Dromard 1-9
Clonguish 1-7
↓
Date: 27th August 1995
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Con McLoughlin
Man of Match: Padraic Mulligan
Referee: Seamus Flood (Mostrim)

Note: This was the first year that Gerry Hennessy Cup was used for IFC.

Abbeylara 0-9
Cashel 1-2
↓
Date: 25th September 1994
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: John O’Brien
Man of Match: Niall Sheridan
Referee: Pat O’Toole (St. Munis Forgney)

Note 1: This was the last year that Liam Hastings Cup was used for IFC.

Note 2: Cashel won IFC title in 1993 but decided against going up to Senior grade for 1994, hence played IFC in 1994 and reached the final. 

Cashel 0-8
Clonguish 0-4
↓
Date: 26th September 1993
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Michael Farrell
Man of Match: Michael Donlon
Referee: John Brady (Crosserlough, Cavan)

In 1993 Intermediate Championship was played on a group basis leading to knockout stage.

Group A: Cashel, Abbeylara, Mullinalaghta, Carrickedmond.
Group B: Clonguish, Shroid Slashers, Ballymahon.

Semi-finals:
Cashel v Ballymahon
Clonguish v Abbeylara

Dromard 2-6
Carrickedmond 1-5
↓
Date: 27th September 1992
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Noelle Maguire
Man of Match: Noelle Maguire
Referee: Pat Keenan (Ardagh St. Patricks)

Abbeylara 1-10
Ballymahon 2-5
↓
Date: 8th September 1991
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Kevin Smith
Man of Match: Peter Lynch
Referee: Mike Kenny (Cashel)

Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 1-5
Ballymahon 1-2
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Date: 23rd September 1990
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: David Leonard
Man of Match: Joe Rogers (?)
Referee: Eugene Murtagh (Seán Connollys)

Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 1-5
Ballymahon 0-8
↓
Date: 9th September 1990
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Eugene Murtagh (Seán Connollys)

MOTM: Match reports following the final win did not include any reference to Man of the Match winner, however the reporting indicates that Joe Rogers was the best player on the field, so he is assumed as MOTM.

Note: Clonguish and Ballymahon decided to relinquish their Senior status and compete at Intermediate grade in 1990, while Moydow Harpers and Ballymore decided to relinquish their Intermediate status and step down to Junior grade for 1990. This resulted in a 7-team Intermediate Championship involving St. Brigids Killashee, Mullinalaghta St. Columbas, Abbeylara, Carrickedmond, Clonguish, Ballymahon and St. Munis Forgney. 

Seán Connollys 3-7
Abbeylara 0-9
↓
Date: 10th September 1989
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Frank O’Hara
Man of Match: Ciaran Fox
Referee: Seán Brady (Fr. Manning Gaels)

Note: Seán Connollys became the first club to retain the Intermediate Championship title. 

Seán Connollys 2-4
Abbeylara 0-9
↓
Date: 11th September 1988
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Greg Doris
Man of Match: Niall Rawle
Referee: Brendan Gilmore (Rathcline)

Abbeylara 1-3
Ballymore 0-4
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Date: 13th September 1987
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: John O’Brien
Man of Match: John O’Brien
Referee: Pat O’Toole (St. Munis Forgney)

Note 1: First presentation of MOTM award. The award was initially sponsored by Longford Oil in 1987, then by Greene and Heneghan Tyres from 1988 to 1990, then by Lakeland Daries from 1991 and finally by Mulleady Group since 2009.

Note 2: The 1987 County Final (Senior/Intermediate) was noteworthy because of a few new approaches spearheaded by PRO Pat Chapman. Flags in the colours of every club in the county were erected around the dressing room area for the first time, and the Artane Boys Band led the teams around the field that day. The crowd of 4000 entered the grounds using tickets purchased in advance from well positioned outlets outside the grounds to avoid delays at turnstiles, hence it was the first all-ticket county final.

Colmcille 2-11
Abbeylara 1-2
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Date: 28th September 1986
Venue: Newtownforbes (Centenary Park)
Winning Captain: Caoimhin Smith
Referee: Pat Keenan (Ardagh St. Patricks)

Colmcille 0-9
Abbeylara 0-9
↓
Date: 14th September 1986
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Pat Keenan (Ardagh St. Patricks)

Note: Pat Brady (34) lined out for Colmcille at Centre Half Back in the 1986 final. He had played in every Intermediate Championship game for Colmcille since 1969 when the club first played in Intermediate grade having been relegated from Senior in 1968. This was his 18th season playing Intermediate Championship and his first IFC title.

Abbeylara 2-6
Legan Sarsfields 0-4
↓
Date: 15th September 1985
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Larry Smyth
Referee: Mick Joyce (Fr. Manning Gaels)

Note: Winning Abbeylara team was trained by Rogie Martin from Granard. 

Ballymahon 0-11
Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 1-3
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Date: 9th September 1984
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Paddy Diffley
Referee: Pat Keenan (Ardagh St. Patricks)

Note: Paddy Diffley was a member of both the 1984 and 1969 Ballymahon IFC winning teams.

Kenagh 2-4
Shroid Slashers 0-8
↓
Date: 11th September 1983
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Seán Miley
Referee: Eamonn Higgins (St. Munis Forgney)

Seán Connollys 2-10
Shroid Slashers 0-5
↓
Date: 12th September 1982
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Eugene Farrell
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

Legan Sarsfields 3-6
Colmcille 1-6
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Date: 13th September 1981
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Larry Bannon
Referee: Peter Kane (Longford Slashers)

St. Munis Forgney 0-6
Mullinalaghta St. Columbas 0-3
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Date: 7th September 1980
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Eugene Noonan
Referee: Peter Kane (Longford Slashers)

Dromard 1-8
St. Brigids Killashee 0-3
↓
Date: 23rd September 1979
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Michael Whitney
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

Carrickedmond 3-2
St. Munis Forgney 0-5
↓
Date: 10th September 1978
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: JP Reilly
Referee: No Record

Killoe Young Emmets 1-6
Dromard 0-6
↓
Date: 7th August 1977
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Kevin Lennon
Referee: JP Reilly (Carrickedmond)

(Medal Source: Cyril McKeon)

Abbeylara 1-8
Killoe Young Emmets 0-4
↓
Date: 12th September 1976
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Johnny Smith
Referee: No Record

Fr. Manning Gaels 0-9
Killoe Young Emmets 0-5
↓
Date: 17th August 1975
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Thomas Gill
Referee: No Record

Note: Fr. Manning Gaels also competed in the 1975 Senior Football Championship as part of an amalgamation with Dromard called ‘Northern Gaels’ and the combination reached the semi-final, defeated by Mostrim in the end. Amalgamations of Intermediate clubs were permitted to compete in Senior Championship at the time via a Qualifier route, and it was the first time such an amalgamation had made it to the semi-final stage. 

St. Brigids Killashee 1-5
Abbeylara 1-1
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Date: 27th October 1974
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Mike Magan
Referee: Tom Reilly (Ballymahon)

St. Brigids Killashee 2-6
Abbeylara 2-6
↓
Date: 13th October 1974
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Tom Reilly (Ballymahon)

Fr. Manning Gaels/Mullinalaghta 1-15
Dromard 0-9
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Date: 16th September 1973
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Berney Gill
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

This is the only time a combination/amalgamation won the IFC title.

Note: Fr. Manning Gaels and Mullinalaghta St. Columbas were both Junior clubs at the time. For much of the 1970’s, combinations of Junior clubs were permitted to come together and enter the Intermediate Championship via a qualifier route, while combinations of Intermediate clubs were permitted to compete in the Senior Championship via a qualifier route. The 1973 final was the first (and thus far only) time a combination of two or more clubs won the Intermediate Football Championship. The panel was mostly Fr. Manning Gaels players along with four Mullinalaghta players.

Legan Sarsfields 1-13
Dromard 0-6
↓
Date: 17th September 1972
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: TJ Ward
Referee: Tom Hayden (Shroid Slashers)

Note: Legan Sarsfields completed an Intermediate League & Championship double.

The 1972 IFC included the following Intermediate teams:

• Colmcille
• Dromard
• Killoe Young Emmets
• Legan Sarsfields
• Seán Connollys
• Shroid Slashers
• St. Brigids Killashee
• St. Martins (Kenagh/Carrickedmond)
• St. Munis Forgney
• Abbeylara/Fr. Manning Gaels *
• Mullinalaghta/Ballymore *

* Denotes Junior club combinations in qualifying round with winner advancing to play in IFC proper. 

Ardagh St. Patricks 2-7
Dromard 1-2
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Date: 12th September 1971
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Pete Keenan
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

Note: Four sets of brothers and three sets of first cousins on the Ardagh panel. Brothers Jack and Pat Manicle, Michael and M Ward, Seamus and Justin Yorke and Larry and PM Gillen. First cousins were Ronnie Dowd and Frank Halligan, Brendan Cummins and Martin Farrell, Pete Keenan and ???.

Rathcline 2-3
Ardagh St. Patricks 0-5
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Date: 20th September 1970
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Ned Hanley
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

Note 1: Cup was not available for presentation as it could not be found ahead of the final – it was located later in the day in Ballymahon (previous years winners).

Note 2: Rathcline completed an Intermediate League & Championship double.

Ballymahon 1-9
Colmcille 2-5
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Date: 5th October 1969
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Seán Ryan (Acting)
Referee: Paddy Casey (Mostrim)

Note: Paddy Kenny was captain but did not play in the final. He and Seán Ryan both raised the cup together. Leo McCormack was meant to referee but Paddy Casey ended up stepping in on the day. It is also worth noting that Paddy Diffley was a member of the 1969 winning team and went on to captain the 1984 winning team. 

The 1969 IFC draw was made in January 1969, with 9 clubs involved (See here):

St. Brigids Killashee
Legan Sarsfields
Ardagh St. Patricks
Colmcille
Ballymahon
Rathcline
Seán Connollys
Killoe Young Emmets
Cashel (2nd)

In March 1969, partway through the league programme, the clubs of Éire Óg (a Senior club) and Ballinamuck (a Junior club) – both in the same parish of Drumlish – amalgamated to form Fr. Manning Gaels and affiliated at Intermediate grade. Hence the IFC of 1969 ended up with 10 teams instead of the above-listed nine teams. 

Cashel 1-5
Ballymahon 0-5
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Date: 24th November 1968
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: John Donlon
Referee: Tom McLoughlin (Mostrim)

Cashel 0-6
Ballymahon 0-6
↓
Date: 27th October 1968
Venue: Pearse Park
Referee: Tom McLoughlin (Mostrim)

Mostrim 1-11
Cashel 1-9
↓
Date: 17th September 1967
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Tom McLoughlin
Referee: PJ Monaghan (Clonguish)

Note: This was Mostrim’s first season at Intermediate grade having won the Junior Championship in 1966 and gained promotion. Hence Mostrim went from Junior to Intermediate to Senior grade in three consecutive seasons from 1966 to 1968.

Kenagh St. Dominics 2-8
Cashel 0-7
↓
Date: 16th October 1966
Venue: Pearse Park
Winning Captain: Paddy Belton
Referee: Leo McCormack (Ballymahon)

Note: Kenagh completed an Intermediate League & Championship double.

There was no Intermediate Championship competition from 1933 to 1965.

Edgeworthstown Young Irelands Won
Mullinalaghta Lost
↓
Date: 29th May 1932
Venue: Granard (Convent Field?)
Winning Captain: No Record
Referee: No Record

📷 1932 Intermediate Championship Winner

Review of newspaper records for the 1932 Intermediate final did not indicate any scoreline.

Note 1: In January 1931 it was proposed at the County Board meeting to establish a third grade of football alongside the two existing grades of Senior and Junior. This led to the implementation of the Intermediate Championship in 1931 to encourage more football for clubs. The competition ran in 1931 and 1932, but was discontinued thereafter. Intermediate competition would not re-appear until 1966 when the current Intermediate Championship began. It is worth noting that there was no Intermediate League in 1931 or 1932, so the teams above also competed in Junior League. Edgeworthstown Young Irelands beat Killoe Young Emmets in the opening round of the 1932 IFC. 

Note 2: As holders, Mullinalaghta should have been promoted to Senior grade for 1932, however reporting in March 1932 referenced a series of defections they were compelled to remain at Intermediate grade for 1932. Worth noting that Mullinalaghta added the St. Columbas suffix to the club name from 1955, so at the time of this IFC final the club was simply ‘Mullinalaghta’. 

Clarification: Edgeworthstown was originally formed in 1889 as Edgeworthstown Volunteers and by 1910’s the club name had been shortened to Edgeworthstown. A few months after the delayed 1929 Junior Championship final in February 1930, the club was renamed Edgeworthstown Young Irelands. The Edgeworthstown club that won the Junior Championship of 1929 (in 1930) is the same Edgeworthstown Young Irelands club that reached the Senior Championship final in 1931 and won the Intermediate Championship title in 1932. Shortly thereafter the club split and this led to the formation of  the Edgeworthstown Geraldines club which competed alongside Edgeworthstown Young Irelands for a period. By the mid 1930’s both clubs are gone and we see the brief emergence of Edgeworthstown Wolfe Tones and Manor Rovers clubs in the parish, with both no longer evident by the end of 1936. In 1937 the Mostrim Eoin Ruadhs club was formed with name then hortened to Mostrim from 1938. For consistency, we keep the titles of Edgeworthstown (including Young Irelands) separate from titles of the later Mostrim club. 

Mullinalaghta 4-8
Clonbroney 1-2
↓
Date: 4th October 1931
Venue: Granard (Convent Field?)
Winning Captain: No Record
Referee: JV Kelly

📷 1931 Intermediate Championship Final

New IFC Competition: In January 1931 it was proposed at the County Board meeting to establish a third grade of football alongside the two existing grades of Senior and Junior. This led to the implementation of the Intermediate Championship in 1931 to encourage more football for clubs. The competition ran in 1931 and 1932, but was discontinued thereafter. Intermediate competition would not re-appear until 1966 when the current Intermediate Championship began. It is worth noting that there was no Intermediate League in 1931 or 1932, so the teams above also competed in Junior League. As champions, Mullinalaghta should have been promoted to Senior grade for 1932, however reporting in March 1932 referenced a series of defections they were compelled to remain at Intermediate grade for 1932.

Names Clarified: Clonbroney club was renamed Seán Connollys from 1935. Mullinalaghta added the St. Columbas suffix to the club name from 1955. 

Our research found the following IFC title changes which were supplied to and adopted by Coiste Chontae an Longfort from 2014 onward. This marked the first material change to the official record since the early 1980’s.

1931
Was: None
Now: Mullinalaghta

1932
Was: None
Now: Edgeworthstown Young Irelands

The following key clarifications apply to IFC clubs down the years.

Titles are allocated to club units (not parishes). Where a new club unit was formed by two or more clubs amalgamating, the previous titles of the individual clubs prior to the union are kept separate from titles won by the new club unit. Here are some examples from across the country of similar practice (📑 Examples). For teams made up of two or more clubs in an amalgamation, titles are allocated to the combination team and not assigned separately to the individual club units within it (thus avoiding double-counting).

To allocate titles accurately and consistently to club units, it was necessary to dig into specific instances where key titles were won by different or differently named entities from the same parish down the years, and determine using as much primary evidence as possible how to allocate those titles to club units.

Longford has seen a large number of clubs come and go over the years, including multiple clubs in the same parish at the same time (This was true in multiple instances prior to the 2010’s, and is still true today for the Longford and Granard parishes). Historically there are a few instances of key titles won by different or differently named units from the same parish. Some were merely the same club renamed over time, while others were separate club units including new clubs formed by the merging of two or more existing club units.

There are five key examples of title allocations which needed clarification:

1. Longford Parish
2. Mostrim Parish
3. Granard Parish
4. Drumlish Parish
5. Ardagh & Moydow Parish

Note: Titles in this context refers to SFC, SFL, SHC, IFC, JFC or U-21 Championship titles.

In January 1931 it was proposed at the County Board meeting to establish a third grade of football alongside the two existing grades of Senior and Junior. This led to the implementation of the Intermediate Championship to encourage more football for clubs. The competition was run in 1931 and 1932 (Mullinalaghta won in 1931 and Edgeworthstown Young Irelands won in 1932), but was discontinued thereafter.

Intermediate competition would not re-appear again until 1966 when the modern-day Intermediate Football Championship was inaugurated after a motion was placed at the 1965 County Convention by Colmcille to establish an Intermediate Championship. The motion passed and Intermediate competition got underway in 1966.