Scór Competition

Scór Sinsir

Killoe’s participation in Scór Sinsir dates back to the inaugural 1969-70 season with the club’s first success coming the following year with Marie Reilly winning the County title for Solo Music in 1970-71. This would prove to be the club’s only success in Scór Sinsir until the 1994-95 season when the Figure Dancing team took home the County title.

Killoe enjoyed a renaissance at Scór Sinsir in the 21st century, winning a number of titles in various categories.

The Ballad Groups led by Grainne Fox and consisting of members of the previously successful Junior groups claimed county honours in 2005-06, 2007-08 & 2008-09. The Figure Dancers won back to back county titles in 2008-09 and 2009-10 while the Instrumental Musicians achieved a similar feat in 2007-08 and 2008-09 and claimed a third title two years later in 2010-11. The Set Dancers were also triumphant in 2007-08 with Killoe winning the overall ‘Club of the Year’ award that season. Figure Dancers were back in winning ways in 2012-13, capturing the Longford title in late 2012 and competed in the Leinster semi-final in March 2013, while our talented Instrumental Musicians took County honours in 2014-15.

The club’s greatest success story at Scór Sinsir has been Marie McCormack from Bawn who, along with winning three titles with the Ballad Groups, claimed four county titles for Solo Singing in 2005-06, 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. In 2009-10, Marie went one step further winning the Leinster title – a first Scór Sinsir provincial title for the club – and went very close to claiming the All-Ireland title in Killarney giving a magnificent performance of ‘The Banks Of The Moy’ in the final.

In 2016-17, the Instrumental Group of Padraig Walsh, Marie Brady & Paddy Collum reached the Leinster Final and would repeat the feat in 2017-18 with back to back County titles and Leinster Final appearances. In 2018-19 the club won County titles in Figure Dancing and Set Dancing. In 2019-20 Carmel Kennedy won the County title for recitation and Killoe and Abbeylara were awarded joint-winners for Club of the Year. 2021-22 saw County final success in Ballad Group, Instrumental, Solo Singing and Figure Dancing categories with Killoe taking home the ‘Club of the Year‘ award too. The Ballad Group and Instrumental Music teams reached the Leinster Final in 2021-22, while the Ballad Group qualified for the Leinster Final again in 2022-23 with the Instrumental Music team winning the County title that year. In 2023-24 Killoe won ‘Club of the Year‘ at the County final while title wins in Ballad Group, Instrumental Music and Solo Singing, while the Balled Group reached the Leinster Final for the third year running. In 2024-25 the Killoe Ballad Group retained their County title, making it four-in-a-row of County titles in this category. They went on to reach the Leinster Final for the fourth year in a row.

Scór na nÓg

Killoe’s participation in Scór na nÓg dates back to the 1970-71 season when Scór na nÓg was first introduced alongside Scór Sinsir. A first County title win for the club in Scór na nÓg did not come until 1983-84 when the Set Dancing group of Mairead Donohoe, Karen Browne, Fidelma Rowley, Martina Brady, Elizabeth Duggan, Eleanor Hagan, Mary Hagan and Teresa Hagan won the County title with Killoe also winning the overall ‘Club of the Year’. The following year the same Set Dancing group retained their County title for 1984-85 with the Hagan siblings Gerard, Teresa and Eleanor also successful in the Instrumental Music category and breaking the mould by reaching the clubs first Leinster Final – a feat they would repeat the following year.

In 1990-91 the club achieved a double success of County titles with Deidre Kenny winning the Solo Singing and the team of John Devaney, Brid Doherty and Aiden Doherty winning the Question Time. The following year in 1991-92 a team of John Devaney, Aiden Doherty and Michael Browne retained the Question Time County title. 1992-93 was to prove a landmark year for Killoe in Scór na nÓg with the tremendous success of the Novelty Act team with ‘Heaven’s Just A Sin Away‘ – a political satire written by Mickey Kenny and Mick Fleming. The cast of John Devaney, Aiden Doherty, Lisa Kelly, Liam Brady, Paul Devaney, Mark McGoldrick, Kieran Browne and Laura Doherty won the County title in late 1992 and went on to win the Leinster semi-final and reach the Leinster Final in the Olympia Theatre in January 1993 which they won – a first for Longford in this category. The group advanced to the club’s first All-Ireland final but were beaten on a memorable night in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. In 1993-94 the Question Time team of Aiden Doherty, Ian Browne and Shane Hughes won a third County title in four years in the Question Time category.

In 1994-95 another political satire ‘Aeroflop‘ won County honours in the Novelty Act category and were narrowly defeated in the Leinster Final. The cast consisted of Ian Browne, Lisa Kelly, Kevin Molloghan, Aoife Doherty, Shane Hughes, Laura Doherty, Liam Brady and Claire Hughes. Three years later in 1998-99 ‘The Last Judgement‘ with a cast of Shane Doherty, Damien Walsh, Fiona Kenny, Natasha Bankowski, Patrick Doherty, James Hughes, Sean & Joe McCormack claimed County honours in the Novelty Act and narrowly lost out in the Leinster Final after impressing judges with their energetic performance. Further success in the Novelty Act category followed with county titles in 2000-01 and 2001-02 with ‘Reeling in The Years – Scenes from A Second Millennium‘ which lost out in the Leinster Final the second time round on a count back.

The focus of Killoe’s success in Scór then shifted to the music categories with the Ballad Group winning the county title in 2002-03 under the tutelage of Grainne Fox, the first of a remarkable four-in-a-row County Scór titles that would take them all the way to the All-Ireland Final. In 2005-06 the Balled Group team won their fourth County title and reached the Leinster Final for the fourth year in a row, and this time claimed the title and the club’s second ever provincial title in Scór competition. They were unlucky not to claim All-Ireland honours in Athlone, losing out to Caltra from Galway despite receiving the highest score. The Question Time team of Kevin McDermott, Denis McGoldrick and Ronan McGoldrick were also successful in 2004-05 winning the County title. In 2008-09 Fergal O’Donnell won the County title in the Recitation and reached the Leinster Final while the Figure Dancing team won the County title in 2014-15 and Instrumental Group won the County title in 2015-16 and reached the Leinster Final.

2017-18 would see County titles for Balled Group, Solo Singing and Question Time teams with the Balled Group capturing the Leinster title and advancing, along with the Question Time team, to the All-Ireland Final in Sligo. 2018-19 saw County titles for both Question Time and Solo Singing, with Anna Moorehead advancing to the Leinster Final. In March 2022 the club won County titles in Solo Singing, Novelty Act, Set Dancing, Ballad Group, Recitation and Question Time with Balled Group, Recitation and Question Time teams advancing to the Leinster final. The Question Time team of Gerard Keogh, Ryan Keogh, Tommy Tully and Conor Doherty won the Leinster Final and advanced to the All-Ireland final. 

2022-23 saw County title wins for Question Time, Ballad Group, Solo-Singer and Novelty Act teams, and Killoe won the Club of the Year award too. The Question Time team of Ryan Keogh, Gerard Keogh, Conor Doherty & Tommy Tully made it through to the Leinster Final, as did the Ballad Group team of Rebecca Moorehead, Abbey White, Aimee Dolan, Robyn Dunne and Alex Lee, along with the Novelty Act team of Orlaith Craig, Aimee Dolan, Adam McCarthy, Madison Canty, Rachel Lee, Elaine Casey, Cian Gilna & Aoife Lee. The Question Time team of Ryan Keogh, Gerard Keogh, Conor Doherty, Tommy Tully and their mentor Aron Fitzpatrick advanced further to the All-Ireland Final and on Saturday 6th May 2023 won the All-Ireland title, a first for the Killoe club and only the second club from Longford to ever win the All-Ireland title for Question Time at Scór na nÓg. The Question Time team of David Quinn, Cian Gilna, Adam McCarthy and Conor Doherty reached the Leinster Final in 2024-25, and although they did not take first place, they did enough to qualify for the All-Ireland Final. In 2025/26 the Balled Group won the County title and Leinster semi-final, reaching the Leinster Final – this was the 25th time the club had reached the Leinster Final in a Scór na nÓg category.

Scór Sinsir Titles

Scór na nÓg Titles