Bellaghy GAC explained

Club Gaa:Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC
Irish:Baile Eachaidh
Crest:Bellaghy crest.jpg
Founded:1939
Province:Ulster
County:Derry
Nickname:The Tones
Colours:Blue and White
Grounds:Páirc Seán de Brún
Wolfe Tone Park
Coordinates:54.8071°N -6.5148°W
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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

Senior Football

Minor Football

Under 16 Football

Under 15 Football

Under 14 Football

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

Pitches

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, 4G area and dressing rooms at Wolfe Tone Park, Drumanee, just outside the village.

Notable Gaelic footballers

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death . 2007-09-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070607083105/http://www.serve.com/pfc/brown/040119in.html . 2007-06-07 . dead .
  2. Web site: CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997. 2008-03-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20080228024109/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch97.htm. 28 February 2008 . live.
  3. Web site: The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997 . The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland . 2008-03-03. PDF.
  4. Web site: Brilliant Bellaghy are crowned Ulster minor club champions . The Irish News . 1 January 2019 . en . 2 January 2019.
  5. News: Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s . County Derry Post . 2008-09-23 .

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