Editing Celbridge (section)

==Sport and voluntary groups==

===GAA===
[[Celbridge GAA]] park and centre on the [[Hazelhatch]] Road was opened in 1996, ending 52 years without a home, the club having lost its field in Ballymakeally after a court case in 1944.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} Celbridge GAA club is the third oldest club in County Kildare, formed on 15 August 1885, eight months after the GAA was founded in [[Thurles]]. In 1890 there were two clubs in the parish: Celbridge Shamrocks, based in Kilwogan with 64 members, and the Irish Harpers at Hazelhatch, with 70 members.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Celbridge play at senior level in both codes. They won their first [[Kildare Senior Football Championship]] in 2008. Celbridge GAA had won its first [[Kildare Senior Hurling Championship]] in 1921. Success in the top hurling competition in Kildare would not arrive until 2005 when Celbridge, managed by Jimmy Doyle, beat Coill Dubh in the final. Following a number of semi-final defeats, a "three in a row" of hurling titles came in 2009, 2010 and 2011. After defeat in the 2012 decider to Confey, Celbridge reclaimed the title in 2013. The club has won the [[Kildare Senior Camogie Championship]] in 2005, 2006 and 2010, and won the U21 football county championship in 2012 and 2014.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

===Association football===
The town has two clubs. Celbridge Town AFC, which was formed in 1959 and plays its home games in St Patricks Park. Ballyoulster United FC, which was formed in 1968 and plays its home games at Louglinstown road. Both clubs compete in the Leinster Senior League.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

===Golf and pitch and putt===
Celbridge Elm Hall Golf Club is a 9-hole parkland course located adjacent to Celbridge / Hazelhatch train station on the Loughlinstown Road.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} Celbridge's 18 hole championship [[pitch and putt]] course meets [[Pitch and Putt Union of Ireland|PPUI]] standards.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

===Athletics===
Local resident [[Mark Kenneally]] represented Ireland in the marathon at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}} [[George Magan (Gaelic footballer)|George Magan]] was Irish cross country champion in 1920 and 1922, Irish Mile champion in 1919, 1921 and 1922, Irish 880 yards champion in 1918, 1919 and 1921, and Irish four-mile (6&nbsp;km) champion in 1921. [[Jack Guiney (sportsman)|Jack Guiney]] was Irish champion in the triple jump and shot in 1937.

Celbridge Athletic Club is active locally, and has over 500 participants across all ages.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}}

===Rugby===
Celbridge Rugby Club, founded by Fr Joseph Furlong, competed in the Towns Cup in 1928/29. Celbridge players compete in the All Ireland League with [[MU Barnhall]].

===Watersports===
Celbridge Paddlers canoeclub is a multidiscipline kayaking club,<ref name="CelbridgePaddlers">{{Cite web |title=Celbridge Paddlers Canoe Club |url=http://www.celbridgepaddlers.ie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214213902/http://www.celbridgepaddlers.ie/ |archive-date=14 December 2018 |access-date=13 December 2018 |website=CelbridgePaddlers.ie}}</ref> which was formed in 1984 and is affiliated to the [[Irish Canoe Union]].<ref name="CelbridgePaddlers" /> The annual [[Liffey Descent Canoe Race]] passes through Celbridge, where competitors have to navigate the Vanessa weir and Castletown rapids.

===Other sports===
Celbridge Tennis Club was founded in 1923, and the club's premises on Hazelhatch Road were opened in the 1970s.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Celbridge horse racecourse is mentioned in the ''[[Freeman's Journal]]'' of 27 September 1763 and 4 October 1763, but was not in use after the end of the 18th century. Locally trained horse [[Workman (horse)|Workman]], trained by [[Jack Ruttle]] out of [[Hazelhatch Stud]], was the winner of the [[Aintree Grand National]] in 1939. A point-to-point meeting was held at nearby Windgaps 1912–1954.

A cricket club was active from 1880 to 1902. Kildare County Polo Club had their grounds on Castletown Estate 1901–1906. Among those who played polo in Celbridge was [[Prince Heinrich]], younger brother to Kaiser William II.<ref>Irish Times, 24 May 1902</ref>

There is salmon and sea trout angling locally, with trout found from [[Islandbridge]] upstream, with other trout fishing grounds above [[Leixlip]] and all the way to [[Ballymore Eustace]].<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.irelandflyfishing.com/fisheries.php?&fisheries_id=29 | publisher = Great Fishing Houses of Ireland | title = Ireland's Fisheries – River Liffey | website = irelandflyfishing.com | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713055305/http://www.irelandflyfishing.com/fisheries.php?&fisheries_id=29 | archive-date = 13 July 2011}}</ref>

===Community groups===
There are three separate [[Scouting Ireland]] Groups in operation in Celbridge. The Groups are 1st Kildare (2nd Celbridge), 3rd Kildare (1st Celbridge), and 19th Kildare.{{citation needed|date=June 2018}} The Celbridge Amenity Group is also active locally.{{citation needed|date=October 2018}}