Moortown St. Malachy's

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Moortown St. Malachy's is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the village of Moortown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

History

Moortown are one of the most successful clubs in Tyrone having won four Tyrone Senior Football Championships in 1941, 1942, 1950 and 1992.

Their last county championship victory came in 1992 and the side was captained by James Devlin.

The club used to field a Hurling team in the 1970s, competing in the Derry league.

Recent Events

In 2007 Moortown were hot favourites to be promoted back to the Senior League in Tyrone and reached the intermediate championship final against a non-fancied Killyman side who produced a storybook performance to defeat Moortown in Healy Park, Omagh. Notable performances came from Peter Devlin (James Devlin's son), Michael O'Hagan and county star PJ Quinn. However

Their home pitch is Tobin park though there are plans now for Moortown to relocate to a new area in the village in a new leisure complex.

In recent years the club also began to field a Camogie team.

The Current Moortown G.A.C. Chairman Is Paul Quinn (pin) (Father of PJ Quinn)

Notable Players

*Chris Lawn - winner of two All-Ireland medals with the Tyrone Inter-county Team.
*Stephen Lawn - Former member of Tyrone team and member of 1995 defeated All-Ireland finalists.
*Paul Devlin - Former member of Tyrone team and member of 1995 defeated All-Ireland finalists.
*James Devlin - Former member of Tyrone team and Inspirational Captain of 1992 Tyrone County Champions. Now Trains the relatively Successful minor Team.
*PJ Quinn - Current Member Of Tyrone Panel