How St Brendan’s came to be?

St. Brendan’s was founded in 1958 in Kings Heath, Birmingham. It was founded by Michaél Sugrue, Paddy Fogarty, Eddie O’Sullivan (all Co. Kerry) Walter MaGee (Co. Mayo) and Eamonn Flanagan (Co. Roscommon). These men had not long moved to Bham and there was no GAA club based in this area so they met to start this club. We began as a junior club and over the years have grown to havInf senior and junior teams and now have 7 Underage teams at all age groups plus a girls team.

How many years have you played GAA?

We have been playing Gaelic football since 1958 so 62 years this year. We celebrated our 60th with a club trip to the CYC games in Boston in 2018.

Do you have plans to come to Ireland to play?

We were due to go back to Waterville where two of our founder members are from as Paddy Fogarty invited us back this year but with the current climate that looks unlikely. Paddy is the last living founder member.

Would you like to see a GAA World Cup?

A World Cup maybe interesting so we will look more in to it.