Mullahoran GFC, founded in 1888, is one of the most iconic clubs in
Cavan. Situated in the vast, largely rural parish of Mullahoran in the
south of the county, on the border with Co. Longford, the club is based
at Our Lady of Lourdes Park, just off the N55 road between Granard and
Cavan town.
Mullahoran have won 12 Cavan Senior Football
Championship titles, most recently in 2012. They won their first title
in 1935 and have won titles in six decades, with their most successful
spell coming when they won seven titles from 1942-1950.
The club
is perhaps the most embracing of all in Cavan when it comes to
facilitating the various strands of the GAA - Mullahoran has
traditionally been one of the only hurling clubs in the famously barren
hurling landscape of Cavan, while it also caters for Ladies football,
camogie, rounders, Scór, and of course, handball.
Identified as
the club of 'The Gunner' Bradys, probably the most well-known
representatives of that famous GAA family are Paul Brady, the four-time
World Handball champion, and his late uncle Phil, who won All-Ireland
senior football medals with Cavan in 1947, 1948 and 1952.
Another
famous member of the Mullahoran club was former Tánaiste John Wilson,
the late Fianna Fáil politician who served in various ministerial roles
in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Wilson was on the Cavan team alongside
Phil Brady that won the All-Ireland title in the Polo Grounds in New
York in 1947.
Another famous Mullahoran footballer of more recent
times is Damien O'Reilly, who was on the last Cavan team to win the
Ulster title, in 1997.