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played for an amazing 4 years with the Sligo Minors). The club would go on to win adult championship titles in junior 1980 1985 2002 and intermediate title in 1998 and winning league titles in junior in 80,85, division 2 titles in 1990, 92, 98 and the senior league in 2006, the first adult county final played under floodlights in Sligo. In 2016 our club ground won the Sligo and
Connacht titles of Club grounds of the year. In 1985 we won the best overall club in Scor na nOg in Sligo and achieved All Ireland success in the same event. In 2009 the club won our first underage A championship (u14 football) and went onto represent Sligo at Féile in Kildare.
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Mulderrig's transferred back to Mayo the interest waned. In those days the club had no pitch and used Jones's/Langan's fields in Attychree for training and games. The club was again reformed again in 1955 by Liam Boland and Tom McMenamin and fielded a minor team and a Junior team, and while success evaded the team they did produce Christy Barrins who played on the Sligo Minor team. In 1959, following the emigration of 16 of the panel, the club ceased to exist again.
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Castleconnor as a club have been in and out of the Sligo GAA history since 1889 but it is only since the 1970s that the club has been on a consistent footing. The club is the most westerly in county Sligo since 1896 when Queen
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Prior to the 1940s many of the players in the parish played with neighbouring clubs. However in 1948 Michael
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