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 | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°48′25.71″N 6°30′53.22″W / 54.8071417°N 6.5147833°W | ||||||||||||
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Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: CLG Baile Eachaidh) 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 have won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships, four Ulster Senior Club Football Championships and the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Bellaghy camogie club have won two Derry Senior Camogie Championships.
On 12 May 1997, the Club Chairman, Sean Brown, was attacked and abducted by a Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) gang 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.[1][2] 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, stating "the police investigation was incomplete and inadequate".[3]
Football Titles
[edit]Senior Football
[edit]- 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 Intermediate Football Championship (1)
- 1990
- Derry Junior Football Championship (1)
- 1962 (won by Bellaghy II)
- Graham Cup (2)
- 2000, 2004
- Sean Larkin Cup (4)
- 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2018
- Thirds Championship (1)
- 2007
Minor Football
[edit]- Ulster Minor Club Football Championship 3
- 1991, 1994, 2018[4]
- Derry Minor Football Championship 10
- 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1973, 1991, 1994, 2018
- Derry Minor Football League: 3
- 1993, 1994, 2015
- Derry Minor B Football League: 1
- 2008
Under 16 Football
[edit]- Derry Under-16 Football Championship: 4
- 1960, 1981, 1990, 2003
- South Derry Under-16 Football Championship: 4
- 1960, 1981, 1990, 2003
- South Derry Under-16 Football League: 1
- 1988
- Derry Under-16 Football Shield: 1
- 2008
Under 15 Football
[edit]- Ulster Óg Sport Under-15 Football: 2
- 19xx, 2018
Under 14 Football
[edit]- Derry Féile na nÓg: 4
- 1998, 2001, 2010, 2013
- Derry Under-14 Football Championship: 6
- 1998, 2001, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018
- South Derry Under-14 Football Championship: 3
- 1995,1998, 2001
- South Derry Under-14 Football Leagues: 5
- 1979, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2013
- South Derry 'B' Under-14 Football Championship: 2
- 2005, 2010
- South Derry 'B' Under-14 Football League: 2
- 2005, 2010
Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.
Pitches
[edit]Bellaghy's main pitch, Páirc Seán de Brún, is named after their former club chairman Seán Brown.
The club also have two full-sized pitches, 4G area and dressing rooms at Wolfe Tone Park, Drumanee, just outside the village.
Notable Gaelic footballers
[edit]- 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.
- Tom Scullion
- 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.[5]
- Laurence Diamond - Former Derry midfielder. Captain 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.
- Danny Quinn - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning panel.
- Karl Diamond - (son of Tommy) All Ireland minor winner 1989 and All Ireland senior winner 1993
- Fergal Doherty - Former Derry mid-fielder.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death". Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
- ^ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997". Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
- ^ "The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997" (PDF). The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
- ^ "Brilliant Bellaghy are crowned Ulster minor club champions". The Irish News. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s". County Derry Post. 23 September 2008.