Derrytresk Fir An Chnoic GAC
| Doire Treasc Fir a' Chnoic | |||
| Founded: | 1903 | ||
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| County: | Tyrone | ||
| Nickname: | The Hill, The Greatest Team In The World | ||
| Colours: | Blue & White | ||
| Coordinates: | 54°31′03.54″N 6°38′24.01″W / 54.5176500°N 6.6400028°WCoordinates: 54°31′03.54″N 6°38′24.01″W / 54.5176500°N 6.6400028°W | ||
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Derrytresk Fir An Chnoic (Irish: Doire Treasc Fir a' Chnoic) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Tyrone. The club is based in the townland of Derrytresk near Clonoe in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Gaelic football
The club concentrates on Gaelic football, with the senior team currently competing in Division 3 off the Tyrone All-County Football League and in the Tyrone Junior Football Championship.
Although one of the smallest clubs in the county, with a catchment area of about 60 houses, Derrytresk won the 2011 Tyrone JFC, defeating Killeeshil 0-15 to 0-9. They went on to win the Ulster Junior Club Football Championship, defeating Monaghan's Cremartin 2-5 to 0-10.[1] They won their All-Ireland semi-final against Kerry's Dromid Pearses (1-10 to 7 points), but narrowly lost the final in February 2012 to Naomh Pádraig of Galway.[2]
The club has at times played in the Senior Championship, reaching the final in 1949 when they were defeated by An Charraig Mhór.
Honours
- All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (19)
- Winners 1954, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001
- All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship
- Runners-up 2011
- Ulster Junior Club Football Championship (1)
- 2011
- Tyrone Senior Football Championship
- Runners-up 1949
- Tyrone Junior Football Championship (2)
- 1955, 2011
- Tyrone All-County Football League Division 3 (3)
- 1987, 1992, 1994
- McGarrity Cup (2)
- 1992, 2009
- Campbell-McGirr Cup (2)
- 1986, 1987
Notable players
- Mick Cushnahan (died 2013), member of Tyrone's 1947 All-Ireland Minor winning team, and (after transfer to Derrylaughan) the 1956-57 Ulster Championship winning teams[3]
- Frank Henry, Tyrone Senior team player in the 1940s
- Pat O'Neill, Tyrone Junior captain 1960s, later Senior team player
- Cathal O'Neill, member of the All Ireland Minor winning team in 2004
- Harry Lambert, pure dung
James O'Neill is a fantastic young star coming through the clubs youth team. Honours include Grade 4 U14 Championship
Jonathan Campbell (Johnny) is also believed to be the greatest player in the history of the club. Some say that his scoring ability is almost ridicules and that Colm "Gooch" Cooper could not even be compared to thee of young Campbell himself. He is the reason we are all here today, he is the reason the club is still alive, he is the reason the club has won 19 senior All-Ireland Senior Championships. Scoring a record 178-2678 in his time at 'The Hill', Johnny is still at a tendered age of 19. Kerry great 'Pat Spillane' has already called on Mickey Harte to call him up, so he can compete in the International Rules competition vs. Australia in the years to come "so he cannot be a problem to this nationality, but even to nationalities abroad". Johnny has recently been linked with a possible move to another galaxy side, because he is quite simply too good for this one. He has recently came out and said to Sky Sports News reporter Jim White that he has no intention on leaving the lough shore club and that his time terrorising defences in Tyrone has not quite come to an end.
Camogie
An associated camogie club called Cailíní a' Chnoic plays at the same home venue.
References
- ↑ Tyrone GAA website report on 2011 UJCFC final
- ↑ Hoganstand.com, "All Ireland club JFC final: Clonbur reel in 'Tresk", 13 February 2012
- ↑ Mick Cushnahan obituary, Tyrone GAA website
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