Castleisland Desmonds GAA
gaelic games club in County Kerry, Ireland
Castleisland Desmonds are a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Castleisland, County Kerry, Ireland. The club is affiliated with North Kerry and their players play with St Kieran's divisional team. The club won its first County Championship in 1950. They won others in 1981, 1982 and 1984. They won the Munster Club Championship and All-Ireland Club Championship in 1985.
Celebrity Bainisteoir
In 2010, the club was selected to enter RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoir TV show. Their Celebrity Bainisteoir was Derek Burke from Crystal Swing.
In the quarter finals, Castleisland played against Nuala Carey's Shannonbridge side from County Offaly. In the 2010 season of Celebrity Bainisteoir, home advantage for each game bar the final was determined by an assault course challenge, which took place at the Irish Army's training camp in The Curragh, County Kildare. Having lost the home venue decider in the Curragh, Desmonds travelled to Shannonbridge.
“Castleisland Desmonds GAA” enters the record as gaelic games club in County Kerry, Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Castleisland, Desmonds and gaelic can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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