National honours

St. Vincent’s record at the top of the Irish game stands at three National League titles and three National Cups — the club’s confirmed, official honours.

Irish National League Champions

  • 1979
  • 1993–94
  • 2005–06

Irish National Cup Champions

  • 1984
  • 1993
  • 1994

Tournament & international honours

In the club’s golden era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, St. Vincent’s were repeat champions of the Roy Curtis International Tournament — a prestigious international invitational hosted in Ireland that drew leading British, Irish and European sides, and which ran from the mid-1960s into the 1990s.

Roy Curtis International Tournament — Champions ×6

1967 · 1968 · 1969 · 1970 · 1971 · 1973

An international invitational tournament — a marker of the club’s standing in the European game at the time, distinct from the domestic National League and Cup.

More tournament heritage

St. Vincent’s both hosted and competed across the era’s leading invitational events:

  • Hosted two well-known invitational tournaments of the era — the Glen Abbey and the St. Vincent’s (Players) Invitational.
  • Champions of the 1973 Players No. 6 International Tournament.
  • Competed in the 1975 “Major Extra Size” Tournament in Cork and the 1978 Lota Tournament.

A club built on heritage

These honours trace back to the club’s earliest days, when early stars Dave Fitzsimons, John Furlong and Ollie Hearns helped make St. Vincent’s a national force. For the full founding story — from baskets going up in the C.B.S. schoolyard in 1958 to the club registering with the ABBA in 1962 — see our history.

  • To confirm with the committee: the “A Little Bit of Irish Basketball History” archive also credits St. Vincent’s with a 1970–71 National Cup and a 1971–72 National League. Pending confirmation, the headline stays at three Leagues and three Cups — these earlier titles are flagged for the committee to confirm or rule out before the count is changed.

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