Bellaghy GAC

Derry-based Gaelic games club

Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GACBaile Eachaidh

Founded:| 1939
County:| Derry
Nickname:| The Tones
Colours:| Blue and White
Grounds:| Páirc Seán de Brún
Wolfe Tone Park
Coordinates:| 54°48′25.71″N 6°30′53.22″W﻿ / ﻿54.8071417°N 6.5147833°W﻿ / 54.8071417; -6.5147833
Playing kits

Home Kit

Change Kit

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Senior Club Championships
|  | All Ireland | Ulster
champions | Derry
champions

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Football: | 1 | 4 | 21
Camogie: | - | 1 | 2

Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: CLG Baile Eachaidh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in gaelic football and camogie.

Bellaghy have won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships, four Ulster Senior Club Football Championships and the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Bellaghy camogie club have won two Derry Senior Camogie Championships.

On 12 May 1997, the Club Chairman, Sean Brown, was attacked and abducted by a Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) gang 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.[1][2] 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, stating "the police investigation was incomplete and inadequate".[3]

## Football Titles[edit]

### Senior Football[edit]

* All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (1)
* 1971-1972
* 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 (2)
* 2000, 2004
* Sean Larkin Cup (4)
* 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2018
* Thirds Championship (1)
* 2007

### Minor Football[edit]

* Ulster Minor Club Football Championship 3
* 1991, 1994, 2018[4]
* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

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

### Under 14 Football[edit]

* 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[edit]

Bellaghy's main pitch, Páirc Seán de Brún, is named after their former club chairman Seán Brown.

The club also have two full-sized pitches and dressing rooms at Wolfe Tone Park, Drumanee, just outside the village.

## Notable Gaelic footballers[edit]

* 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
* 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.[5]
* Laurence Diamond - Former Derry midfielder. Captain of 1971-72 Bellaghy All-Ireland winning team.
* Damian Cassidy \- 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.
* Danny Quinn - Member of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland winning panel.
* Fergal Doherty \- Former Derry mid-fielder.

## See also[edit]

* Derry Senior Football Championship
* List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death". Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
2. ^ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997". Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
3. ^ "The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997" (PDF). The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
4. ^ "Brilliant Bellaghy are crowned Ulster minor club champions". The Irish News. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
5. ^ "Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s". County Derry Post. 23 September 2008.

## External links[edit]

* Bellaghy GAC Website

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Derry GAA clubs

2022 Senior Football League
16 clubs|

* Ballinascreen
* Ballinderry
* Banagher
* Bellaghy
* Claudy
* Coleraine
* Dungiven
* Glen
* Kilrea
* Lavey
* The Loup
* Magherafelt
* Newbridge
* Slaughtneil
* Steelstown
* Swatragh

2022 Intermediate Football League
10 clubs|

* Castledawson
* Desertmartin
* Drumsurn
* Faughanvale
* Foreglen
* Glenullin
* Greenlough
* Limavady
* Lissan
* Slaughtmanus

2022 Junior Football League
11 clubs|

* Ardmore
* Ballerin
* Ballymaguigan
* Craigbane
* Doire Colmcille
* Doire Trasna
* Drum
* Glack
* Magilligan
* Moneymore
* Ógra Colmcille (JFC only in 2022)
* Seán Dolans

2022 Senior Hurling
Championship finalists|

* Kevin Lynch Hurling Club
* Slaughtneil

2022 Intermediate Hurling
Championship semi-finalists|

* Ballinascreen
* Banagher
* Eoghan Rua
* Swatragh

2022 Junior Hurling
Championship finalists|

* Lavey
* Na Magha

2022 other hurling
clubs|

* Ballerin

Camogie clubs|

* Ardboe
* Ballerin
* Ballinascreen
* Ballinderry
* Banagher
* Bellaghy
* Castledawson
* Drum
* Drumsurn
* Dungiven
* Eoghan Rua
* Foreglen
* Glack
* Glen
* Glenullin
* Greenlough
* Kilrea
* Lavey
* Limavady
* Magherafelt
* Na Magha
* Newbridge
* Slaughtneil
* Swatragh

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