Launch of the 2010 GAA Hurling Championship
11 May 2010; At the launch of the 2010 GAA Hurling Championship on location at St Enda’s Park Rathfarnham, home to the Pearse Museum formerly Scoil Éanna, from left, Stephen Hiney, Dublin, Shane McNaughton, Antrim, David Collins, Galway and Brian Hogan, Kilkenny. Dr Doody, a member of PH Pearse’s teaching staff at the school was involved in the establishment of the Leinster schools championship on November 26 1910 and Pearse himself was vice Chairman of the organising committee. Among the pupils at the school was Maurice Fraher - son of the legendary Waterford GAA figure Dan Fraher. However undoubtedly the best known GAA figure the school produced was Frank Burke. He was a member of the hurling and football teams and captained the team that won the Junior Dublin's School Cup in 1910-11. He later fought in the 1916 Rising and was interned in Frongoch. Although only released in 1917, he was on the Dublin All-Ireland winning hurling team that year. He won a second hurling All-Ireland with Dublin in 1920. In addition, he won All-Ireland football medals with Dublin in 1921, 1922 and 1923. Frank Burke was later to become the last headmaster of Scoil Éanna, which closed in 1935. Picture credit: Ray McManus / SPORTSFILE
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