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Dallas Fionn Mac Cumhaills

Dallas, Texas, USA · USGAA Southwest Division · Dallas GAA
Founded1997, revived 2010
Parent BoardUSGAA · Southwest Division
PronouncedFinn Mc Cool’s
National TitlesMen’s Junior C 2014, Junior B 2021, Junior A 2023 · Ladies Junior C 2019

Dallas GAA plays as Fionn Mac Cumhaills, pronounced Finn Mc Cool’s. Revived in 2010 from a 1990s side that started in a Henderson Avenue brewery, the club has climbed from Junior C to Junior A champions in under a decade and has been at every USGAA Finals since 2011.

From Yegua Creek to the National Finals

The first version of the club came together in 1997 among a group of friends who met at Yegua Creek Brewing Company on Henderson Avenue, which became their first sponsor. John Courtney, a former Gaelic footballer from Waterville in Kerry, helped coach them, and before a sevens tournament in Denver around Labor Day 1997 they took the name Fionn MacCumhaill Dallas GAA. Noel O’Sullivan scored the first point anyone remembers. That team faded, but the name was kept.

It came back in May 2010. Emmett Long, Brian Geraghty, Kevin McCann, Paddy Walsh and Davey Devlin got it going again by emailing everyone they knew with an Irish connection, and an invitation to a tournament in Austin gave the new side its first games, against Austin and Toronto. The club was incorporated in 2011 with Kevin McCann as its first chairman.

Junior C to Junior A

Dallas have played at every USGAA Finals since 2011, and the women’s team since 2012. The men won the Junior C title in 2014 and the women won Ladies Junior C in 2019, both on the USGAA roll of honour. The club also lists a men’s Junior B title in 2021 and Junior A in 2023.

That 2023 final in Denver was a tight one. Dallas trailed the Cayman Islands by three points in injury time, found an equaliser and won 2-12 to 1-17 after extra time. At the 2026 Finals in Canton, Massachusetts, Dallas sides were drawn in men’s intermediate, Junior A, Junior C and Junior D football and in Ladies Junior C.

Closer to home the men’s and women’s teams play the Texas Cup against San Antonio, Austin and Houston, and the Celtic Cowboys of Austin are the rivals that matter most.

John Wycherley

Club Character
John Wycherley
Known around the club as The Wych, John Wycherley is a former Cork player from Ilen Rovers. JOE.ie’s profile of the club named him its most famous member. He also appeared in the film War of the Buttons, which gives the club a member with a screen credit to go with his county career.

Red and White Roots

The original 1997 side wore red and white. The club’s name has been written a few ways over the years, from Fionn MacCumhaill Dallas GAA on its own site to Dallas Fionn Mac Cumhaills in the GAA’s international directory, but it is the same club and the Dallas crest ties them together.

This FanFile covers Dallas Fionn Mac Cumhaills as a club rather than one particular jersey. Check the crest, sponsor, manufacturer label and product code on your own shirt to identify its specific season and edition.

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