- Source: Newtown Blues GAC
Newtown Blues are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland. The club fields Gaelic football teams in competitions organised by Louth GAA. They are the most successful club in Louth GAA and hold the record for the most Louth Senior Football Championships won in Gaelic football history. The club won their last such title in the 2019 Louth Senior Football Championship.
The club, which was founded on 12 July 1887, has its home ground on the Newfoundwell road, beside the local secondary school. The club's colours are sky blue and white.
In 1962 Newtown Blues won all three Senior club competitions (Old Gaels Cup, Cardinal O'Donnell Cup and Senior Championship) and went on to repeat this feat in 1963 and 1986.
Notable players
Jamie Carr
Danny Nugent
Colm Judge
Colin Kelly
Jimmy Mulroy
Ged Nash
Honours
Louth Senior Football Championship (23): 1889, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1981, 1986, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2019
Louth Senior Football League (14): 1933, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1969, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2005, 2010, 2018, 2022
Louth Junior Football Championship (1): 1958
Old Gaels/ACC/Paddy Sheelan Cup (10): 1962, 1963, 1966, 1970, 1986, 1997, 2007, 2012, 2015, 2022
Louth Junior A Football League (1): 1928
Louth Junior 2A Football Championship (3): 1996, 2004, 2010
Louth Junior 2A Football League (6): 1970, 1982, 1997, 2006, 2007, 2009
Louth Minor Football Championship (8): 1956, 1957, 1958, 1970, 1975, 2004, 2014, 2015
Louth Under-21 Football Championship (8): 1978, 1979, 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2017, 2018
References
External links
Newtown Blues GAA Club website (archived 2017)
"Louth Teams have Ground for Optimism" (2 November 2013) Dundalk Democrat. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
