Rathgormack has had a football team in the Senior grade since 1985 after we won the Intermediate title the previous year. Since then Rathgormack has strived to be the best football club in the county and succeeded in the Nineties with 6 final appearances. Three of these came in the one championship campaign, in 1992, when we played Dungarvan in the final. After two replays we lost the third game by 0-09 to 0-07 after extra-time.
Rathgormack won its' first modern day title in 1995 defeating Kilrossanty. This achievement threw Rathgormack into a Munster Championship game against the Tipperary Champions, Moyle Rovers, seven days after the county final and Rathgormack found it difficult to raise their game so quickly after defeating Kilrossanty.
The Conway Cup was won again the following year, this time defeating Gaultier, and with more time to prepare Rathgormack got their revenge on Moyle Rovers in Dungarvan. This set Rathgormack up against the defending All-Ireland Club Champions, Laune Rangers of Kerry. Rathgormack drew the first game in Dungarvan with a scoreline of 1-05 apiece but the replay in Killarney saw Laune Rangers raise their game to defeat the lads by two points.
The third title for the present generation of players was won in 1999 when the Senior team defeated Stradbally 1-09 to 0-09 with a superb goal by Martin Power. Sucess followed in the Munster club with another victory over Moyle Rovers followed by a draw and a lose to UCC in the Muster Club Semi-Final.
The three campaigns since that title have seen Rathgormack lose out in two semi-finals and in one final, to Stradbally in 2001.
Rathgormack has over the years had it's own hurling teams with Junior successes in the seventies' but an amalgamation in the late eighties with near neighbours,
Clonea-Power
, means Rathgormack represents the footballing interests in the area and Clonea satisfies the hurlers.
This arrangement is paying dividends at juvenile levels with unprecedented leaps forward in the last few years in both codes. Rathgormack's under-age successes are mainly due to a combination of dedicated club officials (such as John Crotty and the late Johnny Curry and Richard O'Halloran amongst others in the past) and co-operation from players from both parishes. Nowadays people such as Sean Curry, Ger Power and Joe Murray are passing on the skills to a new generation of big-ball players.
Rathgormack players have been rewarded in the last few seasons for their efforts with the likes of Brendan Curry and Martin Power being awarded County Senior Players of the year, Frannie Halpin recieved the Young Player of the yearin 1996 and Richard Power received Waterford Sports Star of the month for November in 1997.
