Naomh Éanna — 'Saint Enda's' — was founded in Gorey in 1970 by a group of Christian Brothers, and takes its name from Scoil Éanna, the school founded by Patrick Pearse.
Naomh Éanna GAA Club was founded in Gorey, County Wexford in 1970 by a group of Christian Brothers, establishing senior hurling and senior football in the town under a single banner.
The name carries its own history. Naomh Éanna translates as 'Saint Enda's', and the club took it from Scoil Éanna — St Enda's School — founded in Dublin by Patrick Pearse. A club named after a school founded by a teacher and revolutionary was, from the beginning, a club with education and Irish identity written into it.
Fifty-plus years on, the club fields hurling, Gaelic football and camogie teams from its home at Páirc Uí Shíocháin on the Clonattin Road, and remains the GAA club of a town that has grown enormously around it.
The founding decade set the pattern: the first Wexford Intermediate Hurling Championship arrived in 1974, four years after the club was formed.
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