Bellaghy GAC
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| Founded: | 1939 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Derry | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Tones | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Seán de Brún & Wolfe Tone Park | ||||||||||||
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Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in Gaelic football and camogie.
Bellaghy has won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships. The club has also won the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship on four occasions and won the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The associated Camogie Club has won a Derry Senior Camogie Championship.
Bellaghy fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve, Thirds and Senior levels. Underage teams up to U-12's play in South Derry league and championships, from U-14 upwards teams compete in All-Derry competitions.
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Gaelic football
Bellaghy fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve and Senior levels. They currently compete in the Derry Senior Football Championship and Division 1 of the Derry ACFL.
Notable players
- Tommy Gribben - First Derry man to win an All Ireland medal with St Pat's Armagh in 1946. Derry County Footballer 1945-1955, 1957–1958, Tyrone County Footballer 1956, Ulster Provincial Footballer, Derry Junior Manager and Coach of 1971-72 Bellaghy All-Ireland winning team.
- Damian Cassidy - Represented Derry seniors from 1984 until 1996. Left half forward of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning team. Managed Bellaghy to senior finals in 2004, 05 & 07, winning in 2005.
- Fergal Doherty - Former Derry player.
- Danny Quinn - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning panel.
- Tommy Diamond - Former Derry player. First player to captain a county to victory in both All-Ireland Minor (1965) and All-Ireland Under-21 (1968) Championships.[1]
- Laurence Diamond - Former Derry player. Captain of 1971-72 Bellaghy All-Ireland winning team.
- Joe Cassidy - Former Derry player.
Páirc Seán de Brún
Bellaghy's main pitch is named Páirc Seán de Brún in honour of their former club chairman Seán Brown who was attacked and abducted by a Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) gang on the evening of 12 May 1997 as he locked the main gate of the GAA grounds on the Ballyscullion Road. Less than an hour later the body of the father-of-six was found lying beside his burnt-out car just off the Moneynick Road near Randalstown, County Antrim. He had been shot six times.[2][3] On 19 January 2004 the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a report that was highly critical of the police investigation into Brown's killing.[4]
The club also have two full-sized pitches at Drumanee, just outside the village.
Honours
Senior
- All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1)
- 1971-1972
- All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship (2)
- 1986, 2002
- Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (4)
- 1968, 1971, 1994, 2000
- Derry Senior Football Championship (21)
- 1956, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1979, 1986, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005
- Derry Senior Football League (7)
- 1947, 1986, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004
Derry Junior Football Championship (1)
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- 1962 (won by Bellaghy II)
- Graham Cup 2
- 2000, 2004
- Larkin Cup 4
- 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
- Thirds Championship 1
- 2007
Minor
- Ulster Minor Club Football Championship: 2
- 1991, 1994
- Derry Minor Football Championship: 9
- 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1973, 1991, 1994
- Derry Minor Football League: 3
- 1993, 1994, 2015
- Derry Minor B League: 1
- 2008
U-16
- Derry U-16 Football Championship: 4
- 1960, 1981, 1990, 2003
- South Derry U-16 Football Championship: 4
- 1960, 1981, 1990, 2003
- South Derry U-16 Football League: 1
- 1988
- Derry U-16 Football Shield: 1
- 2008
U-14
- Derry Féile na nÓg: 4
- 1998, 2001, 2010, 2013
- Derry U-14 Football Championship: 2
- 2001, 2013
- South Derry U-14 Football Championship: 3
- 1995,1998, 2001
- South Derry U-14 Football Leagues: 5
- 1979, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2013
- South Derry 'B' U-14 Football Championship: 2
- 2005, 2010
- South Derry 'B' U-14 Football League: 2
- 2005, 2010
Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.
