Bredagh GAC is a

Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional ...

club in

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

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. It fields teams at all levels from U8 to Senior in Men's and Ladies

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Hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of p ...

and

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. It had its previous pitch, Bredagh Park, taken off them in December 1998 but moved next door to Cherryvale Playing Fields, owned by the

Belfast City Council Belfast City Council ( ga, Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste) is the local authority with responsibility for part of the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland. The Council serves an estimated population of (), the ...

. Bredagh is one of the few clubs in Down without a pitch to call its own but it is a flourishing and resurgent club benefiting from both a changing demographic in the

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area and from solid work at increased training at underage levels. In 2006, the footballers won the

Down Junior Football Championship The Down Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Down GAA clubs. The Down GAA, Down County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1920. The national media covers the ...

and the Hurlers won Division 3 of the Ulster Club Hurling League. In 2007 the hurlers won the Down Junior Hurling Championship and Division 2 of the All County Hurling League - both for the first time. In 2008 they won Antrim League Division 4B. At underage level they won the Division 1 (14s) and Division 2 (16s)Down Hurling Championship at U14 and U16. The U14 Hurling team also won Division 1of the county league and the Division 1 Down Feile. They were also narrowly beaten in the final of the Division 2 All-Ireland Feile in Co.Clare. In 2010 the hurlers won the Down Intermediate Hurling Championship for the first time along with Antrim League Division 4A. In 2011 Bredagh Won The

Beating Dromara 4.10 To 0.09 in the final. 2011 also saw Bredagh Senior Hurlers compete in the Down Senior Hurling Championship for the first time in the history of the club. In 2012 Bredagh Senior Hurlers won the Down Junior Hurling Championship for the second time after re-structuring from the Down County Board saw them drop from Senior Championship to Junior. The Senior Hurlers made history in October 2012 when they won the

Ulster Junior Club Hurling Championship The Ulster Junior Club Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition played between the best junior hurling clubs in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Associat ...

for the first time in the club's history beating Na Magha of Derry 4-18 to 3-07 at

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. The Senior Men's Footballers gained promotion to Down Division 2 in 2012. 2016 saw the Men's Footballers and men's hurlers both win their respective Intermediate Championships. The footballers achieved victory over An Riocht in Pairc Esler and the hurlers achieving victory over Ballycran in Newcastle. Also in 2016, the ladies footballers went on to win the Senior Championship wrh a victory over Castlewellen in Downpatrick. 2017 saw the men's footballers win the Down Intermediate Football Championship.

Current County Players

The following Bredagh players played inter-county level for Down for 2019 season. * Senior Footballer ** Conor Francis * Senior Hurlers ** Mark Patterson ** Joseph Hannrahan

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External links

Official Bredagh GAA Club websiteOfficial An Riocht GAA Club websiteOfficial Down County website
Gaelic games clubs in County Down Gaelic football clubs in County Down Hurling clubs in County Down

Current County Players

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