Middletown GAA

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Middletown GAC
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Founded:1900
County: Armagh
Colours:Black and White
Grounds:P. J. O'Neill Park
Coordinates: 54°17′48″N6°50′50″W / 54.29659°N 6.847135°W / 54.29659; -6.847135
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Senior Club Championships
All IrelandUlster
champions		Armagh
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Hurling: - - 20

Middletown Eoghan Rua Gaelic Athletic Club, also known as Eoghan Ruadh (Owen Roe's), is a GAA club from Middletown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The club fields teams from under-6 level to senior level in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie; all teams use the club colours of black and white with the males playing with vertical stripes. Middletown has won many county championship and league titles, and has been successful in All Ireland club championships. The club plays at P.J. O'Neill Park (Irish : Páirc P.J. Uí Néill). [1]

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History

The club was founded in the early 1900s. It was disbanded for a time in the 1960s, but was refounded in 1969. PJ O'Neill Park on Tullybrick Lane was founded in 1984. [2]

Hurling

The club plays as Na Fianna in hurling, and has won the Armagh Senior Hurling Championship 18 times. They completed an historic 4 in a row in October 2022 with a win against Keady in the final. [3]

Honours

Gaelic football

The club plays as Eoghan Ruadh in football. [8]

Honours

Camogie

The club's camogie teams play as St John’s

Facilities

Middletown's GAA pitch is called P.J. O'Neill Park, named after P.J. O'Neill who was prominent in the establishment of the club. A new pitch named Barret Field was opened beside it in 2009, to keep with the high demand of training space for Middletown's various teams and to encourage younger members' involvement in Gaelic games. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Armagh GAA, page 11" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Middletown back on top - HoganStand". www.hoganstand.com.
  3. ↑ "Middletown retain crown". Hogan Stand. 3 September 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  4. ↑ "Maguire strikes late to seal Middletown title". Irish Independent . 23 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  5. ↑ "MIDDLETOWN CLINCH SENIOR TITLE". Armagh GAA. 23 August 2015. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Armagh SHC final: two-in-a-row for Middletown". Hogan Stand . 22 August 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  7. ↑ "Armagh SHC final: Middletown regain crown". Hogan Stand . 12 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Club of the week - Middletown". Gaelic Life. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
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