Bellaghy GAC

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Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC
Baile Eachaidh
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Founded:1939
County: Derry
Nickname:The Tones
Colours:Blue and White
Grounds:Páirc Seán de Brún
Wolfe Tone Park
Coordinates: 54°48′25.71″N6°30′53.22″W / 54.8071417°N 6.5147833°W / 54.8071417; -6.5147833
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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.

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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

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

References

  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.
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