Best GAA team of all time?

[are.ye.well]

With Kilkenny losing out on becoming perhaps the official best GAA team of all time when their 5 in a row attempt I was wondering who people thought was the best team ever.  I haven't been alive for most of these options but I'll list a few from hearsay.  Feel free to add more options.  Those with experience post please

Cork hurlers - 1940's - won 4 in a row - notables included Christy Ring
Down footballers - 1960's - 3 All Irelands - notables included Paddy Doc
Kilkenny hurlers - 1970's - notables included Eddie Keher
Kerry Footballers - 1980's - lots of notables. Spillane, Ger Power, Mikey Sheehey, The Bomber to name a few
Kilkenny hurlers - noughties - Notables -Shefflin, Tommy Walsh

[Dinny Breen]

Kerry 80s

[The Real Laoislad]

Has to be either Tyrone or Armagh....

Apart from them, Kilkenny hurlers from the past decade.

btw you could find plenty more notables from Kilkenny to go along with Shefflin and Walsh..
JJ Delaney,Michael Kavanagh,Eddie Brennan

[mrgaa1]

Crossmaglen for their 13-in-a-row county titles
Kerry for their 4 in-a-row
Kilkenny Hurlers for their 4-in-a-row
Tyrone football team 2005
Dublin senior football team 1977
Our U-12 team 

[seafoid]

Wexford also won a 4 in a row in the fuball

Galway won 3 in a row in the 60s and by all accounts were outstanding.

In overcoming the most appaliing mental difficulties and self imposed obstacles which suffocated all of the teams that followed , the last Mayo team to win a senior all-Ireland deserve special mention.     

[joecanning]

derry senior football team 2010

[ross4life]

In football take your pick from?

Wexford (1915-18)
Kerry (1929-32)
Kildare (27/28)
Roscommon (43/44)
Cavan (47/48)
Mayo  (50/51)
Down (60/61)
Galway (1964-66)
Offaly (71/72)
Dublin (76/77)
Kerry (78-81)
Kerry (84-86)

In football I'm not sure would i include any of the teams of the last 24 years in that list? Kilkenny by far the best Gaa team of the last two decades

[JMohan]

Crossmaglen for their 13-in-a-row county titles
Kerry 80's team
Kilkenny Hurlers of the 00's
Down Team of the 60's (for the 3 AI's and crossing the border)

Those would be my top 4. Tyrone, Armagh not good enough to be a great team.

[Craigyhill Terror]

Down footballers - 1960's - 3 All Irelands - notables included Paddy Doc

That Down "team" was essentially two different teams. There weren't many from 60/61 who played in 68

[western exile]

In football take your pick from?

Wexford (1915-18)
Kerry (1929-32)
Kildare (27/28)
Roscommon (43/44)
Cavan (47/48)
Mayo  (50/51)
Down (60/61)
Galway (1964-66)
Offaly (71/72)
Dublin (76/77)
Kerry (78-81)
Kerry (84-86)

In football I'm not sure would i include any of the teams of the last 24 years in that list? Kilkenny by far the best Gaa team of the last two decades

That Wexford team was as close to 5 in a row as Kerry were years later because they were beaten in the 1914 final.
If you are to miss it, might as well be the first as the last 

[ross4life]

In football take your pick from?

Wexford (1915-18)
Kerry (1929-32)
Kildare (27/28)
Roscommon (43/44)
Cavan (47/48)
Mayo  (50/51)
Down (60/61)
Galway (1964-66)
Offaly (71/72)
Dublin (76/77)
Kerry (78-81)
Kerry (84-86)

In football I'm not sure would i include any of the teams of the last 24 years in that list? Kilkenny by far the best Gaa team of the last two decades

That Wexford team was as close to 5 in a row as Kerry were years later because they were beaten in the 1914 final.
If you are to miss it, might as well be the first as the last 

Good spot, they also lost the 1913 final to Kerry so it's fair to say Wexford won't see the like's of that again

[Hoof Hearted]

Hard to argue with Crossmaglen, Throw in the ? all irelands, 2 back to back, and ?? ulsters, including a 3 in a row. Phenomenal really.

[seafoid]

Hard to argue with Crossmaglen, Throw in the ? all irelands, 2 back to back, and ?? ulsters, including a 3 in a row. Phenomenal really.

Not really. How many all-irelands did they win? 13 county titles just means the opposition wasn't up to much. The standard of Armagh club football is hardly world class.


The Kerry team that won 7 all-Irelands on the trot bar 2 years in the middle are hard to match.

[rosnarun]

In football take your pick from?

Wexford (1915-18)
Kerry (1929-32)
Kildare (27/28)
Roscommon (43/44)
Cavan (47/48)
Mayo  (50/51)
Down (60/61)
Galway (1964-66)
Offaly (71/72)
Dublin (76/77)
Kerry (78-81)
Kerry (84-86)

In football I'm not sure would i include any of the teams of the last 24 years in that list? Kilkenny by far the best Gaa team of the last two decades

what about the great tyrone one in a row?

[under the bar]

Hard to argue with Crossmaglen, Throw in the ? all irelands, 2 back to back, and ?? ulsters, including a 3 in a row. Phenomenal really.

Notably you chose to omit the 13 in a row Armagh chamionships and quite correctly as it was not really a huge achievement given the state of club football meanign they were shoo-ins for the county chamionship every year bar the odd hiccup which gave cross a great platform to build upon for the AI club championship.  Cross hardly had to get out of first gear until Ulster kicked in and then put in the hard work from that point on.   Fair play to them tho they still had to bring home the Ulster and AI titles.