PHOTOS: The Athy GAA Annual Golf Classic for the Ger Clancy Memorial Trophy
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Kildare County champions Athy held their Golf Classic earlier this year
Athy GFC Annual Golf Classic took place with teams of four competing for the Ger Clancy Memorial Trophy at Athy Golf Club.
Ger Clancy was an Athy publican who passed away in 2024 and is one of the town’s most decorated sports stars. Clancy was the proprietor of the iconic and very popular Clancy’s bar in the centre of the town, an establishment that was also run by his parents.
Clancy was part of the Athy team that won the Kildare Senior Football Championship in 1987 for the first time in 45 years. He also played in an All Ireland minor football final for Kildare in 1973 and, in more recent times, he was a selector when Athy won the senior title in 2011, their first since that 1987 success.
He was also a hugely talented outhalf on Athy’s Towns Cup winning sides in 1978, 1981 and 1984.