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Suncroft GFC

Coordinates: 53°06′23″N 6°51′30″W / 53.1064°N 6.8583°W / 53.1064; -6.8583
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Suncroft
Crochta na Gréine
Founded:1929
County:Kildare
Nickname:The Croft
Colours:Green and Red
Grounds:Suncroft Community Field, Askinraw Lane, Suncroft
Coordinates:53°06′23″N 6°51′30″W / 53.1064°N 6.8583°W / 53.1064; -6.8583
Playing kits
Standard colours
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Leinster
champions
Kildare
champions
Hurling: - - 1

Suncroft is a Gaelic football club in Suncroft, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of the day Senior Hurling championship in 1974 and the Senior Football League in 1952. Paul Doyle was selected on the Kildare Gaelic football team of the millennium. Anthony Rainbow was an All Stars Award winner in 2000.

History

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In 2009, Suncroft completed one of the biggest shocks in the Kildare Senior Football Championship by beating the highly fancied Sarsfields by 2-12 to 0-15 at St Conleths Park.[citation needed]

Honours

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Bibliography

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  • Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, ISBN 0-9509370-0-2 hb ISBN 0-9509370-1-0 pb
  • Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
  • Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
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