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Year in review
1 Dublin won their third senior football All-Ireland title this year. Who were the last side to achieve a three-in-a-row in senior football?
2 How many hurling All-Stars did All-Ireland champions Galway receive this year?
3 Waterford reached the All-Ireland senior hurling final this year for the first time since what year?
4 Wexford beat Kilkenny in the Leinster senior hurling semi-final back in June. On what ground was the match played?
5 Diarmuid Connolly received a 12-week ban at the start of the 2017 championship for actions in a Dublin Leinster championship match against which county?
2017 Goals
6 Who scored Waterford’s goal in their All-Ireland quarter-final win over Wexford in the new Pairc Uí Chaoimh?
7 Who scored the only goal in the 2017 Munster senior football final?
8 Galway scored 19 goals in the 2017 National Hurling League, but only two in the championship. Against what county did they score both of those goals?
9 Dublin’s only loss of the year was in the National Football League final against Kerry, who scored the only goal in that game?
10 Name the future starlet who scored four goals in the All-Ireland minor football final.
Head scratchers
11 Of all the county teams who took part in the Liam McCarthy Cup in 2017 (including the round robin in Leinster) only two counties failed to win a championship match in 2017. Christy Ring winners Carlow were one, name the other.
12 Before the start of the Munster senior hurling final in July, a bag containing what, was removed from Cork goalkeeper Anthony Nash’s net by a member of the Clare backroom team?
13 As he took the winning free in the 2017 All-Ireland senior football final, what type of object was thrown at Dean Rock by a Mayo player?
14 The Galway senior hurling club championships started in April. It was won eventually by Liam Mellows, but in what month did they lift the cup?
15 In the 20th minute of the drawn All-Ireland semi-final between Mayo and Kerry, a dead ball was kicked directly wide but unusually it resulted in a ’45 being awarded. The bizarre moment has since instigated a rule change. Who kicked the dead ball wide?
25 years ago
16 They were honoured at half time of the 2017 All-Ireland senior football final, but which member of the Donegal team kicked the last point in that dramatic 1992 All-Ireland football final?
17 Who was named Hurler of the Year in 1992 despite his county losing that year’s All-Ireland final to Kilkenny?
18 Who were (ahem) remarkable winners of the 1992 Munster senior football championship?
19 Which county, featuring an outspoken corner forward, won that year’s National Football League Final?
20 The Liam McCarthy and Sam Maguire Cups were presented to the winning captains in 1992 by which GAA President?
The Ladies
21 In the drawn Connacht Ladies club football final, which legendary player scored a remarkable 4-13?
22 Blues Sisters was an entertaining fly on the wall documentary about which county’s All-Ireland-winning senior side in 2017?
23 Which county won their
second successive National Camogie League title in April 2017?
24 Which famed GAA club won their first ever All-Ireland Club camogie title in 2017?
25 Who was Camogie All-Star Goalkeeper for 2017
10 September 2017; Cork captain Rena Buckley lifts The O'Duffy Cup after the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Final match between Cork and Kilkenny at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Piaras Ó MÃdheach/Sportsfile
Where in the world?
26 In what city did Clare win November’s Fenway Challenge?
27 Dublin’s senior footballers travelled to Carlow in 2017 for a Leinster championship tie. They played Laois on the road in 2016, where was that game held?
28 The 2017 and 2016 Hurling All-Stars played each other in Padang Field this December. Where in the world is Padang Field?
29 The 2016 Inter-Provincial hurling final (once upon a time The Railway Cup Final) was played in front of 582 hardy spectators in December 2016. Where was that final held?
30 It is hard to believe that Paidí Ó Sé left us five years ago this December. It is 14 years since his infamous Kerry team holiday interview with Marty Morrissey. Where did that immortal piece of television take place?
Tricky Ones
31 Name the first two counties to play in the newly developed Pairc Uí Chaoimh in July 2017.
(Note, counties, not clubs!).
32 Which hurling counties met for the very first time in championship hurling in the qualifiers?
33 Name the GAA ground furthest from Croke Park that hosted a game in the Leinster Senior Hurling championship in 2017.
34 Galway needed just under six hours of hurling to win the 2017 All-Ireland senior hurling title, which county played over 11 hours of championship football this past summer?
35 The All-Ireland hurling final between Waterford and Galway was the first final not to involve ‘the big three’ (Kilkenny, Cork and Tipperary) since what year?
Records
36 Patrick Horgan became Cork’s leading scorer in championship during the 2017 Munster championship. Who did he surpass as all time Rebel shooter?
37 Which player collected her 18th senior All-Ireland senior medal in September 2017?
38 Which county became the first in their province to win seven senior titles in a row in July 2017?
39 Which goalkeeper kept the most ‘clean sheets’ (conceded no goals) in the 2017 All-Ireland senior hurling championship?
40 Which provincial senior final set an attendance record in 2017?
Family ties
41 He was the highest scorer for his county in the All-Ireland hurling championship this year and played championship while his father managed his county side from 2008-2011. Name him.
42 Which Dublin footballer won an All-Star award in 1979, before two of his sons won seven more with Dublin?
43 There were two Cannings who won All-Ireland medals on September 3rd. Joe was one of them, name the other.
44 How many Dooleys started the 1995 senior All-Ireland hurling final?
45 In 2014 three brothers lined out for Mayo in their Connacht
championship clash against Roscommon. What is their surname?
Looking ahead
46 In what month will the 2018 National Hurling League begin?
47 Who will be installed as the 39th President of the GAA at
Congress 2018?
48 Who is playing in Croke Park on 7 July 2018?
49 Which Leinster county will be the first ever to play a Leinster championship match in Galway against the All-Ireland champions on 26/27 May 2018?
50 On 20 May 2018 Cork play their first senior hurling championship match in the new Pairc Uí Chaoimh. Who are their opponents?
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