Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club ( ga, CLG Baile Eachaidh) is a

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club based in

Bellaghy Bellaghy () is a village in County Derry, Northern Ireland. It lies north west of Lough Neagh and about 5 miles north east of Magherafelt. In the centre of the village (known locally as The Diamond) three main roads lead to Magherafelt, Port ...

County Londonderry County Londonderry ( Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry ( ga, Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. B ...

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. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in

gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

and

camogie Camogie ( ; ga, camógaíocht ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game of hurling (which is played by men onl ...

. Bellaghy have won 21

Derry Senior Football Championship The Derry Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by the top sixteen Derry GAA clubs. The winners receive the John McLaughlin Cup and qualify to represent Derry in the Ulster Senior Club Football Champi ...

s, four

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition played between the top clubs in Ulster GAA. The trophy awarded to the winners is the Seamus McFerran Cup ( ga, Corn Shéamuis Mhic Fearáin). The winners and th ...

s and the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Bellaghy camogie club have won two Derry Senior Camogie Championships.

Football Titles

Senior Football

* All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1) ** 1971-1972 * All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship (2) **1986, 2002 *

(4) ** 1968, 1971, 1994, 2000 *

(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

Ulster Minor Club Football Championship The Ulster Minor Club Football Championship ( ga, Comórtas Pheil Mhionúr Chumann Uladh), often referred to as the St. Paul's Tournament, an annual Gaelic football tournament organised and hosted by the St Paul's club in Belfast. It is played bet ...

3 ** 1991, 1994, 2018 * 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

* 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

* Ulster Óg Sport Under-15 Football: 2 ** 19xx, 2018

Under 14 Football

* 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

Bellaghy's main pitch, Páirc Seán de Brún, is named after their former club chairman Seán Brown who was attacked and abducted by a

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(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

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. He had been shot six times. 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. The club also have two full-sized pitches and dressing rooms at Drumanee, just outside the village.

Notable Gaelic footballers

* 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 Thomas Scullion (1939 – 12 February 2021) was an Irish Gaelic footballer, manager and administrator. Regarded as a "legend of club and county", he won Ulster Championships with the Derry senior football team as both a player and manager. Scul ...

* Tommy Diamond - Former Derry player. First player to

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a county to victory in both All-Ireland Minor (1965) and All-Ireland Under-21 (1968) Championships. * Laurence Diamond - Former Derry midfielder. Captain of 1971-72 Bellaghy All-Ireland winning team. *

Damian Cassidy Damian Cassidy (born 22 July 1965) is a former Gaelic football manager and former player for the Derry county team in the 1980s and 1990s, who was part of the county's 1993 All-Ireland Championship winning side, starting at left half forward. ...

- 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. *

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- Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning panel. *

Fergal Doherty Fergal Doherty (born 7 October 1981) is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Derry county team, with whom he won a National League title. He was nominated for an All Star four times but narrowly missed out on each occasion. Doherty p ...

- Former Derry mid-fielder.

References

External links

Bellaghy GAC Website
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