Bellaghy GAC

Infobox GAA club
club gaa = Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC
irish = Béal Eochaidh
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founded = 1939
province=Ulster
county = Derry
nickname = The Tones
colours = Blue and White
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Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC ( _ga. Béal Eochaidh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of the Derry GAA and currently cater for both Gaelic football and Camogie.

Bellaghy have won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships, more than any other club. They have also won the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship on four occasions and won the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. The Camogie Club have won 1 Derry Senior Camogie Championship.

Bellaghy fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve, Thirds and Senior levels. Underage teams up to U-12's play in South Derry league and championships, from U-14 upwards teams compete in All-Derry competitions.

Gaelic football

Bellaghy fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve and Senior levels. They currently compete in the Derry Senior Football Championship and Division 1 of the Derry ACFL.

Well known players

*Damian Cassidy - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning team.
*Fergal Doherty - Current Derry player.
*Michael McGoldrick - Current Derry player.
*Joe Diver - Current Derry player.
*Danny Quinn - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning team.
*Karl Diamond - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning team.
*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.cite news |first= |last= |title=Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s |url= |work=County Derry Post |publisher= |date=2008-09-23 |accessdate=2008-09-24 ] Also won Ulster Minor (1965), Ulster Under-21 (1967 and 1968) and Ulster Senior (1970) Championship medals.
*Lawrence Diamond - Former Derry player.

Páirc Seán de Brún

Bellaghy's main pitch is named Páirc Seán de Brún in honour of their former club chairman Seán Brown who was attacked and abducted by an Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) gang on the evening of May 12 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 Randalstown, County Antrim. He had been shot six times. [cite web |url= http://www.serve.com/pfc/brown/040119in.html|title= Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death|accessdate=2007-09-06 |format= |work= ] [cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch97.htm#12597|title= CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997|accessdate=2008-03-03] 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. [cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/police/ombudsman/po190104brown.pdf |title= The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997 |work=The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland |accessdate=2008-03-03|format=PDF]

Honours

enior

*All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship: 1
**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 1
**2004

*Larkin Cup ?
**2004, 2005, more?

*Thirds Championship 1
**2007

Minor

*Ulster Minor Club Football Championship: 2
**1991, 1994

*Derry Minor Football Championship: 9
**1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1973, 1991, 1994

*Derry Minor Football League: 2
**1993, 1994

U-16

*Derry U-16 Football Championship: 4
**1960, 1981, 1990, 2003

*South Derry U-16 Football Championship: 4
**1960, 1981, 1990, 2003

*South Derry U-16 Football League: 1
**1988

*Derry U-16 Football Shield: 1
**2008

U-14

*Derry Féile na nÓg: 2
**1998, 2001

*Derry U-14 Football Championship: 1
**2001

*South Derry U-14 Football Championship: 2
**1995, 2001

*South Derry U-14 Football Leagues: 3
**1979, 1994, 2001,

*South Derry 'B' U-14 Football Championship: 1
**2005

*South Derry 'B' U-14 Football League: 1
**2005

Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.

See also

* Derry Senior Football Championship
* List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs

Derry U-13 Cahmpionship 1 (2007)

External links

* [http://www.gaelsport.com/html/club/club_home.jsp?c=479 Bellaghy GAC Website]
* [http://www.derry.gaa.ie Official Derry GAA Website]
* [http://www.clubgaa.ie/derry/index.htm Derry Club GAA]
* [http://www.serve.com/pfc/brown/040119in.html The murder of Seán Brown]

References