Derry GAA

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For more information on Derry GAA see Derry Senior Club Football Championship and Derry Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Derry GAA
Image:Derrycrest.jpg
Irish: Doire
Province: Ulster
Nickname: The Oak Leafs
County Colours: Red and White
Grounds: Celtic Park, Derry
Dominant Sport: Gaelic football
NFL: Division 1
NHL: Division 2
Football Championship: Sam Maguire Cup
Hurling Championship: Christy Ring Cup
Ladies' Gaelic football: Brendan Martin Cup
Camogie: O'Duffy Cup
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The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cummann Luthchleas Gael Coiste Contae Dhoire) or Derry GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Londonderry. The county board is also responsible for the Derry inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams. Derry were the last of the 32 counties to affiliate, after several false starts their county board was formed only in 1932.

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[edit] Gaelic football

In 1947 Derry won the National league in bizarre circumstances. The group leaders were invited to play in the League semi-finals because heavy snow had disrupted the competition. Francie Niblock scoring one of the finest goals in League history in a near deserted Croke Park as Derry beat Clare. In the 1958 All Ireland semi-final they achieved a bigger breakthrough when a Sean O'Connell goal three minutes from the end defeated Kerry. Although Derry scored ten minutes into the second half through Owen Gribben, Dublin secured victory with Paddy Farnan and Johnny Joyce goals. Derry contested several more league finals before winning four titles in an eight year period in the 1990s. Lavey and Bellaghy won the All Ireland club championship, St Columbs and St Pats Maghera won colleges titles, and Derry are one of only two counties to win back-to-back Ulster titles in the past three decades. It all culminated in the 1993 All Ireland title, a remarkable triumph for the small football heartlands around Maghera. Damien Cassidy left the ball hanging in the air just long enough for Seamus Downey to fist a goal, McCusker's saves, Enda Gormley's curling free for the last point of the match, and the first time that Joe Brolly's shimmy had been seen on the big stage.

In recent years they have been unable to get out of Ulster because of the emergence of Tyrone and Armagh.

[edit] Honours

  • All-Ireland Senior Football Championships: 1
Year Squad Opponent
1993 D McCusker, K McKeever, T Scullion, F McCusker, J McGurk, H Downey, G Coleman, A Tohill, B McGilligan, D Heaney, D Barton, D Cassidy, J Brolly, S Downey, E Gormley. Subs - D McNicholl for D Cassidy, E Burns for S Downey. Cork
  • National Football League Championships: 5
    • 1947, 1992, 1995, 1996, 2000.
  • Ulster Senior Football Championships: 7
    • 1958, 1970, 1975, 1976, 1987, 1993, 1998.
  • All-Ireland Under 21 Football Championships: 2
    • 1968, 1997.
  • Ulster Under 21 Football Championships: 7
    • 1967, 1968, 1976, 1983, 1986, 1993, 1997.
  • All-Ireland Minor Football Championships: 4
    • 1965, 1983, 1989, 2002
  • Ulster Minor Football Championships: 14
    • 1965, 1969, 1970, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002.

[edit] Famous players (past and present)

Player First Senior Year Last Senior Year Position Club
Eoin Bradley 2005 Present Center forward Glenullin
Paddy Bradley 2000 Present Full forward Glenullin
Joe Brolly Corner Forward Dungiven
Eamon Burns Right half forward Ballinascren
Enda Muldoon 1998 Present Right corner forward Ballinderry

[edit] Hurling

Derry city was a hotbed of early GAA activity and sent a hurling team to the 1902 All Ireland semi-final. Hurling teams won the 1986 and 1993 Ulster under-21 titles, but lost most of their players to football. After winning the Senior B championship in 1996, they pulled off a surprise win over Down in the 1998 Ulster championship, despite a dearth of senior clubs.

[edit] Honours

  • All-Ireland 'B' Senior Hurling Championships: 1
    • 1996
  • Ulster Under 21 Hurling Championships: 4
    • 1986, 1987, 1993, 1997.
  • Ulster Minor Hurling Championships: 9
    • 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990, 1991, 2001.

[edit] Derry Club Scene

Many, or even most Derry GAA followers taken a keener interest in the club scene than the inter-county scene. The Derry Senior Club Football Championship is an annual club competition between the top Derry clubs. It is recognised as one of the hardest club championships to get out of sucessfully in Ireland, as there are so many teams like Ballinderry, Bellaghy, An Lúb, Slaughtneil and Glenullin who have a realistic chance of success each year. Attendances at matches are particuarly high, with many neutrals from County Tyrone also going to matches, as many view it as the highest standard of club football in Ulster. The winners of the Derry Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship and if they win, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The current (2006) Derry County Champions are Ballinderry Shamrocks.

The Derry Senior Club Hurling Championship is the hurling equivlant, with Kevin Lynch's Dungiven the defending champions (2006).

Click here for a list of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Gaelic Athletic Association (2006)
National Football League
Division 1 A

Cork | Dublin | Fermanagh | Kerry | Mayo | Monaghan | Offaly | Tyrone
B

Armagh | Derry | Down | Galway | Kildare | Laois | Meath | Wexford
Division 2 A

Carlow | Clare | Donegal | Leitrim | London | Longford | Roscommon | Westmeath
B

Antrim | Cavan | Limerick | Louth | Sligo | Tipperary | Waterford | Wicklow
National Hurling League
Division 1 A

Clare | Cork | Down | Offaly | Waterford | Wexford
B

Antrim | Galway | Kilkenny | Laois | Limerick | Tipperary
Division 2 A

Carlow | Derry | Dublin | Meath | Roscommon | Wicklow
B

Kerry | Kildare | London | Mayo | Westmeath
Division 3 A

Donegal | Leitrim | Louth | Monaghan | Sligo
B

Armagh | Cavan | Fermanagh | Longford | Tyrone
Connacht | Leinster | Munster | Ulster | Third level
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Nicky Rackard Cup (2006)

Armagh |  Cavan |  Derry |  Donegal |  Fermanagh |  Leitrim |  Longford |  Louth |  Monaghan |  Sligo |  Tyrone |  Warwickshire

Liam McCarthy Cup (Tier 1)   -  Christy Ring Cup (Tier 2)   -  Nicky Rackard Cup (Tier 3)
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