St Peregrine's GAA
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| Cumann Naomh Peregrine | ||
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| Founded: | 1978 | |
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| County: | Dublin | |
| Colours: | Black and White | |
| Grounds: | Blakestown Road | |
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Cumann Naomh Peregrine is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Blanchardstown, County Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1978 when a group of local people got together with Fr. Joe Madden of the Servite Order and decided to form a GAA Club of their own.
The Club caters for a range of age groups from 4 years upwards in the parishes of Hartstown, Huntstown, Porterstown, Blakestown and Mountview.
The club has one of the largest number of teams at juvenile level in the county of Dublin. They boast members from a multitude of social and cultural backgrounds. At adult they field teams in Hurling, Football, Ladies Football and Camogie. Both Hurling and football have numbers of teams ranging from Junior to intermediate championship teams. there's even room for social teams!
More recently the club has received Senior status and will play in the 2007 Dublin Senior Football Championship, having won the 2006 Dublin Intermediate Football Championship. The club also competes in the Dublin Intermediate Hurling Championship. Naomh Peregrine currently bost 4 players playing intercounty football with Dublin's Minor team, David Lynch, Stuart Lowndes, Karl O'Connor and Eoghan Jennings. In Camogie the club also have representatives on the Dublin intercounty team.
The Club is often humorously referred to as "Penguins" by other rival clubs due in part to their strip.