Apr. 24, 2023 • Andrew Maron

The Charleston GAA hosted the Holy City Cup for the tenth time on April 22 in Charleston. Six hurling teams competed in pool play to determine seeding, with the top seed from each pool playing the second-place team from the other pool. This year’s tournament also saw two camogie matches played by teams made up of camog’s from Georgia (Atlanta, Savannah, Pooler) and South Carolina (Charleston, Greenville, Citadel and Knoxville). Raleigh Cú Chulainn won in 2022 and returned in 2023 hoping to become the first back-to-back winners in the history of the Holy City Cup.

Mar. 7, 2022 • Andrew Maron

Camden, South Carolina got its first taste of Gaelic sports at the Camden Irish Fest on March 5. The festival was the perfect setting for a hurling exhibition. Hearing the buzz of live music and a festival crowd amplified an already excited group of hurlers.

Nov. 12, 2019 • Andrew Maron

For our final tournament of the year, we made the trip to Augusta for the Azalea Cup. We tried a new experiment as a club, where we pooled our cash and rented a passenger van for the majority of the players to ride in for the daytrip. While it meant having to wake up earlier than usual for the drive, it turned into a great team building experience for those of us in the van. Once we arrived, we saw a number of familiar faces, as we had played most of the attending teams at least once this year. Those of us who made the trip to Knoxville were also happy to see the Augusta players who were our teammates for a day. Augusta greeted us with a welcome package full of bottled water, protein snacks, and koozies. While the temperature was much, much cooler than average, we were excited for the otherwise perfect weather for a full day of hurling.

Oct. 22, 2019 • Andrew Maron

After the 7^th Annual Holy City Cup, there was a short respite to prepare for 6^th Annual Scruffy City Invitational in Knoxville. As you may be aware, the Knoxville Hurling Club walked away from Charleston with our cup in hand. The bitter taste of defeat left several Charleston players determined to make the trip north to challenge Knoxville for their own trophy, the Clancy Cup.

Oct. 1, 2019 • Andrew Maron

This was the 7^th Holy City Cup in the club’s history and turned out to be the biggest tournament to date. With two fields to play on, eight teams were present including Greenville, Knoxville, two teams from Augusta, two teams from Charleston, a college team in UNC-Chapel Hill, and the newly reformed Charlotte club. There were also some players from Orlando, Tampa, Columbus and Raleigh to help some teams out with numbers. The tournament also had two USGAA registered referees, Scott Cooper from Tampa and Keith Knot from Akron. 

Tournament Play