Fintona Pearses GAC

Fintona Pearses is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in Fintona, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and is named after the Irish poet and revolutionary, Patrick Pearse.The club primarily concentrates on Gaelic football and there is also a Ladies Gaelic football club of the same name. Both clubs play at the same grounds, Saint Lawrence's Park.The senior team in 2011 will compete in Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and will play in the Tyrone Junior Football Championship.HistoryFintona Pearses was founded in September 1916 and despite some stop-starts in the 1920s, the club has been continuously active since 1932. At the time of founding there was already a club in the village, Fintona Davitts, which had been in existence since 1907 and the two sides met each other in competition twice in 1917. The Davitts club however went out of existence shortly afterwards.Fintona was also home to the first Camogie club in Tyrone, called Fintona Rose Kavanaghs which was founded around the same time as Fintona Davitts.Since the formation of the club, other past clubs in the local area have included Fintona Pearse Og, Aughafad and Carnlea. The St Brigid's camogie club also existed in the 1940s and 1980s.