Chairman John Morrissey.521245
Secretary Mary Donnelly 521365.
Treasurer Tom Harrington 522122
Training is on Tuesday and Thursday nights over 18 and training for all under age teams is on Sunday morning at 11-30am.
St Johns v Maddenstown on March 10 1888 was the first recorded match in the
history of Gaelic football in Kildare town.
This game was played in Grogans field on the French Furze road, and ended up
with a victory for the Johns. The score was 1-3 to no score. Outstanding players
on that team were, P Anderson, M Farrell, J Twichen, M Byrne, J Davis, M Cahill,
T Hannonand, P Talbot (Capt.) father of Stephen Talbot famous for his bicycle
procession to the county finals in the fifties and grandfather of Stephen who
re-enacted the cycle procession in 1996.
The name changed to sons of St
Brigids on the 24th of March 1888. Their first game was against Clane in the
first round of the championship.
Clane won 2-3 to no score. In the same year sons of St Brigids Kildare played
sons of St Brigids Kilcullen in the T.Harrington (Milltown) tournament and
because there was no score at full time, an extra 20min was played and Kilcullen
won by 1 point to no score.
There was a lot of controversy in the first
years of sons of St Brigids. Some of the leading figures in the club had close
links with nationalist ideals and the rights of tenants.J.T.Heffernan (chairman)
(grandfather of local business people Eddie and Eilish Heffernan) J Cosgrove and
P Talbot. J T Heffernan was arrested in 1888 for his involvement in the Clongory
campaign.
Some G.A.A. Clubs passed resolutions that no games be played
while J.T. was in custody. He spent two or three days in Kilkenny jail.
When he was released a large crowd greeted him at Kildare railway station.
In the early 1900 the name changed to Kildare shamrocks. It was to change one
more time to the present name The Round Towers