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Eglish St Patrick's is a
Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...
club based in the
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Eglish Eglish () is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is about 6 km southwest of Dungannon, in the Mid Ulster District Council area. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 93. The village has grown in a dispersed form and ...
in
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Grounds

Eglish's main playing field is Fr Connolly Park named after a former Parish priest which was opened in 1964 with the pitch being resurfaced in 1997 and 2014. The sports hall was opened in 1984 with new changing rooms and gym being built in 2001. The club's new football ground is named Pairc Chormaic after the late Eglish and Tyrone captain Cormac McAnallen which opened in 2012. Changing rooms were built in late 2016.


Notable players

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Cormac McAnallen Cormac McAnallen (; 11 February 1980 – 2 March 2004) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Eglish St Patrick's club and the Tyrone county team. With Tyrone, McAnallen won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2003, a ...
- All-Ireland winner 2003, All-Ireland Minor winning captain 1998 and Tyrone captain * Conor McKenna - All-Ireland Minor Finalist 2013. Formerly played
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in Melbourne


Honours

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Tyrone Senior Football Championship The Tyrone Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the ''Connollys of Moy'' ''Tyrone Senior Football Championship'') is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. The Tyrone County Boar ...
: (1) ** 1970 *
Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship The Tyrone Intermediate Football Club Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Connollys of Moy Tyrone Intermediate Football Club Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by mid-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. Derrylau ...
: (2) ** 1992, 1997 *
Tyrone Junior Football Championship The Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the Connollys of Moy Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by lower-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. The Tyrone County B ...
: (1) ** 1973 * Tyrone All-County League Division 1: (1) ** 1976 * Tyrone All-County League Division 2: (3) ** 2007, 2010, 2022 * Tyrone Minor Football Championship Grade 1 1987, 1996 & 1997 Grade 2 2007 & 2015 * Tyrone Minor Football League Grade 1 1996 & 1997 * Tyrone Under-16 Football Championship Grade 2 2009, 2013 & 2017 * Tyrone Under-16 Football Championship Grade 3 2015 * Tyrone Under-16 Football League Grade 3 2015


Camogie

Eglish camogie club were serial camogie champions of Tyrone and won Ulster camogie titles in Senior Club Camogie Champions in
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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...
, the year they went on to contest the All-Ireland senior final against Mullagh. The Camogie club won their first Ulster title in 2015 since 1991 retaining the title in 2016. In 2016 Eglish reached the All Ireland Intermediate Final losing to Myshall, Carlow on a score line of 1-09 to 1-10. Gaelic games clubs in County Tyrone Gaelic football clubs in County Tyrone {{Ulster-GAA-club-stub