However, Bray Emmets, the leading side of the early 1900s, won Leinster and All-Ireland honours when they were playing in the Dublin Championship.

After former Kerry manager and player Mick O'Dwyer had taken over as Wicklow manager, the county team won the 2007 Tommy Murphy Cup, defeating Antrim in dramatic fashion with a late Tommy Gill goal in extra-time, securing the Wicklow senior footballers a second ever national trophy, and first ever win in Croke Park.

Again as they were a Division 4 team they were not permitted to enter the qualifiers, so they went on to try and defend the Tommy Murphy Cup but ultimately lost to Antrim in the final.

The 2009 Championship was one of the most memorable in Wicklow's history, they won their Leinster 1st-round game against Longford by 2-12 to 1-13 before narrowly losing to Westmeath in the next round by 0-16 to 1-10.

[citation needed] The county's vocational schools team has won 12 Leinster and 3 All-Ireland Championships, the last coming in 2006.

An independent group initially consisting of Niall O'Brien (Kiltegan), Joe O'Brien (Kiltegan) and Gerry Grehan (Laragh) presented the case for a major overhaul of the academy to Wicklow County Board in 2013, following months of research and focus groups.

[8] A separate part of the original plan which aimed to address the standard of football in the county's secondary schools was not implemented.

[9] The work of the academy showed the first signs of success in a historic 2018 season, when the Wicklow minor football team defeated both Dublin[10] and Meath[11] in the Leinster Championship, before drawing with Kildare in the semi-final[12] and narrowly losing the replay.

The county won the Leinster Junior Championship in 1964, and contested the Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup finals of 2008,[15] 2009 and 2011.

[19] Wicklow were beaten by Monaghan in the 2011 All Ireland Junior B Camogie Championship Final and have not fielded an adult team in inter-county competitions since.