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| County: | Tyrone | ||||||||
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| Nickname: | The Malachy's. Were formerly called The Geraldines | ||||||||
| Club colours: | White & Red Hoops | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Tobin Park Páirc Thóibín |
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Moortown St. Malachy's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Moortown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Moortown are one of the most successful clubs in Tyrone having won four Tyrone Senior Football Championships in 1941, 1942, 1950 and 1992.
Their last county championship victory came in 1992 and the side was captained by James Devlin. However, the Malachys have a less than inspiring record in finals and on innumerable occasions have reached junior, intermediate and senior finals and then fallen at the final hurdle. Often perform best as underdogs.
The club used to field a Hurling team in the 1970s, competing in the Derry league.
In 2007 Moortown were hot favourites to be promoted back to the Senior League in Tyrone and reached the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship final against a non-fancied Killyman side who produced a storybook performance to defeat Moortown in Healy Park, Omagh. Notable performances came from Peter Devlin (Son of James Devlin) Michael O'Hagan and county star PJ Quinn.
Their home pitch is Tobin park though there are plans now for Moortown to relocate to a new area in the village in a new leisure complex if adequate funds are raised.
The U-13 team won the County Title in 2010.Whilst the following year the same side won the U-14 Grade 1 League. The senior team gained promotion back to Division 1 by beating Kildress in the playoffs and are currently playing in Division 1.
In recent years the club also began to field a Camogie team. Which the u-14s won the grade 1 championship 2009 and the U-16 championship in 2010
The Current Moortown G.A.C. Chairman Is James Devlin.
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