Civil Service Hurling Club (Irish: Cumann Báire na Státseirbhíse ) is a hurling club in county Dublin GAA. The club was founded in 1923 by members of the Irish civil service. It currently field two adult hurling teams, in Division 5 and 8 and play in the Junior A and E Hurling championships. They share a ground at Islandbridge with the Civil Service Gaelic Football Club. History Founded in 1923, the founder members were Art O’Driscoll, Tadgh Casey, Padraigh OhAodha, Liam Malone, Joe Crossan, J.Lennon, Harry McHugh, Tom Mchugh, Colm O’Sullivan, Harry Carrick, Dennis O’Sullivan, Paddy McCarthy and Seamus Murphy and the three O’Braonain brothers among their founding members, Seamus, Chriostoir and Sean. The first hurling practice took place in October at the former British Army Polo grounds on the Navan Road. The Club played its first match in the Dublin Junior hurling league on 19 May 1924 against Pioneers, losing by two goals. In 1926 the club won its first league title and its first championship having gone the season unbeaten. In 1929 the club won the Intermediate league and in 1934, an U-21 league. In 1935 Service won the Corn Ceitin. Their path to victory was somewhat unusual however. The club had received a walkover in the semi final from Crokes, and as a result were to play Banba in the final which they did ending in a draw. In the meantime Crokes persuaded the board to refix their semi final and so Service were now forced to play Crokes who they beat. The replay against Banba took place which the club won. In 1938 an interclub committee meeting between Civil Service Hurling, Gaelic football and Camogie clubs took place in order to attain a common goal; their own grounds. It was chaired by Colm O’Sullivan of the hurling club, Joe Moylan represented the hurling club, Tom Wolfe the football club and Delia Kelly the camogie club. Islandbridge came on stream as a result in 1944. A former dump, transformation to a level playing pitch was a difficult task with arable soil difficult to come by. The clubs managed to obtain around 600 tons of good soil from Ballyfermot where building was in progress for the foundations of what is now suburb of Dublin. The club was able to cover the cost of the soil through a grant from the unemployment relief scheme. The club developed a club