Bellaghy GAC

Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC
Founded: 1939
County: Derry
Nickname: The Tones
Club colours: Blue and White
Grounds: Páirc Seán de Brún & Wolfe Tone Park
Coordinates: 54°48′25.71″N 6°30′53.22″W / 54.8071417°N 6.5147833°WCoordinates: 54°48′25.71″N 6°30′53.22″W / 54.8071417°N 6.5147833°W
Playing kits

Standard colours
Senior Club Championships

All Ireland Ulster
champions 		Derry
champions
Football : 2 4 21
Camogie : - - 1

Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, 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 1972 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.

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

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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 has a training pitch at Drumanee, just outside the village.

Honours

Senior

Derry Junior Football Championship (1)

Minor

U-16

U-14


Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s". County Derry Post. 2008-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death". Archived from the original on 2007-06-07. Retrieved 2007-09-06.
  3. ↑ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997". Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
  4. ↑ "The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997" (PDF). The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 2008-03-03.

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