 The name of the new club was decided when Corofin (captained by Tom Molloy) defeated Belclare (captained by Hubert McHugh) in a game in Anbally on Easter Sunday, 12 April 1925.It was also in 1925 that Tom Molloy became the first man from the parish to win an All-Ireland senior football medal.Molloy went on to train Galway to win the 1934 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and the Roscommon team in the 1940s to All-Ireland successes.