The Kildare Senior Championship has spent the 2020s adorned in either blue or red but it was the re-ascension of the county’s most successful club that returned green to the ears of the Dermot Bourke Cup. Sarsfields beat Maynooth to return to the top of the mountain and bridge a seven-year gap between the club’s Joe Mallon Motors SFC successes, much like they did in 2012.
The Sash last lifted the title in the year fires raged in Notre-Dame, the year astronomers captured the first image of a black hole and months before anyone knew the phrase Covid-19. Sarsfields have once again risen above the rest with Mayo-native Vinnie Walsh at the helm in the same year his county exorcised their long-held demons.
1. Paddy Mahoney of Maynooth and Colm Harnett of Sarsfields during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields Championship at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge, Kildare. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Paddy Mahoney of Maynooth and Colm Harnett of Sarsfields during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge | SPORTSFILE
2. 1 November 2026; Paddy Mahoney of Maynooth in action against Daragh Conlon of Sarsfields during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields Championship at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge, Kildare. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Paddy Mahoney of Maynooth in action against Daragh Conlon of Sarsfields during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge | SPORTSFILE
3. Ciarán Flanagan of Maynooth during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields Championship at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge, Kildare. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Ciarán Flanagan of Maynooth during the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge | SPORTSFILE
4. 1 November 2026; Sarsfields captain Barry Coffey lifts the Dermot Bourke Cup after victory in the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields Championship at Cedral St Conleth's Park in Newbridge, Kildare. Photo by Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile
Sarsfields captain Barry Coffey lifts the Dermot Bourke Cup after victory in the Kildare County Senior Club Football Championship final match between Maynooth and Sarsfields | SPORTSFILE