Killester Basketball Club
Killester Basketball Club is without doubt the biggest and best basketball club in the country with over thirty teams from development squads at under eight right through to men’s and ladies superleague.
The club has been to the forefront of all that is good in the game since its inception in 1967 and there is no doubting that with the success’s of the club in 2010-11 “The future of Irish Basketball is ORANGE
A Club is born.
The name KILLESTER Basketball Club is synonymous with a list of honours and major achievements, a club that has survived through thick and thin to emerge at the top at every level of Irish basketball from National League Ladies and Men to the youngest of the young.
Indeed the men's ESB League superleague team DART KILLESTER is idolised and adored by thousands of young basketballers not only in Killester but throughout the country. The is packed with commitment, dedication, the fostering of personal development, a community spirit and active youth involvement. To fully appreciate what this club has achieved we go back to the swinging sixties. Killester Parish in the late sixties had little or no facilities for the youth of the area. There were few places to go and little to do for the young population of the area. (You heard it all before).
The establishment of KILLESTER Basketball Club in 1967 in the famous Church Car Park marked an entirely new departure for the boys and girls of the parish. As with most noteworthy achievements, the establishment of KILLESTER Basketball Club was due to the right man being in the right place at the right time. That man was a young Fr. Mick Casey who hailed from Knocknagree on the Cork/Kerry border. Following his ordination in 1965 Big Mick was appointed to Killester Parish. He immediately noticed the shortage of facilities for the youth in the area and with the help and encouragement of a number of locals including the Stenson's, the Molloy's, the Grennell's, the Kelly's, the Evistons, the Greenes, the Flanagans, the Rices, the McGranes, the Dennehy's, the Goods, the Faughnans and many more. KILLESTER Basketball Club was about to be born.
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