Slaughtneil GAC

Robert Emmet's GAC Slaughtneil

CLG Roibeard Éiméid Sleacht Néill
Founded:	1953
County:	Derry
Nickname:	The Robbies; Na hEiméid
Colours:	Maroon and white
Grounds:	Emmet Park
Coordinates:	54°53′01″N6°42′02″W / 54.88361°N 6.70056°W / 54.88361; -6.70056
Playing kits
Football Hurling
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Ulster champions Derry champions Football: - 3 6 Hurling: - 5 18 Camogie: 3 6 8

Robert Emmet's Gaelic Athletic Club Slaughtneil (Irish : CLG Roibeard Éiméid Sleacht Néill) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based on the townland of Slaughtneil, near Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and competes in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet and the club plays its home games at Emmet Park.

Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship six times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship 18 times. Slaughtneil also won their first Derry senior camogie championship in 2012, and has since won three All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship titles. Slaughtneil won "Club of the Year" at the 2000 Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards. ^[1]

Codes

The club fields teams in several GAA codes, including hurling, Gaelic football and camogie, ^[2] with teams in each code winning multiple county and provincial titles between 2013 and 2021. ^[3]

Club grounds (2007)

Hurling

Slaughtneil is one of the most successful clubs in the Derry Senior Hurling Championship, having won 18 county titles, including 12 successive titles between 2013 and 2024. ^{[4] [5]}

Slaughtneil are the only Derry team to have ever won the Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship lifting the Four Seasons Cup in 2016, ^[6] 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024.

Gaelic football

As of October 2020, the club had won six Senior County Championship titles. ^{[7] [8]} The first of these came in 2004, when Slaughtneil defeated Bellaghy at Watty Graham Park, Maghera. Slaughtneil won their second Derry title in 2014 and their third in 2015. On 30 November 2014, Slaughtneil beat Omagh St Enda's to claim their first Ulster Club Championship. The club went on to win additional Ulster club titles in 2016 and 2017.

Camogie

Slaughtneil fields camogie teams at U6, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels.^{[ citation needed ]} Slaughtneil won the Senior Camogie Championship in 2012 and 2015 and the Derry League in both years. In 2014 and 2015 they won the Ulster League. In September 2021, Slaughtneil's camogie team won its seventh consecutive Derry senior camogie title. ^[9]

In 2017 they won the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship, and retained this title in 2018 and 2019. ^[10]

Honours

Senior football

• Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (3): 2014, ^[11] 2016 ^[12] 2017 ^[13]
• Derry Senior Football Championship (6): 2004, 2014, ^[14] 2015, ^[15] 2016, 2017, ^[16] 2020. ^{[17] [8]}
• Derry Senior Football League (3): 2001, 2013, 2018
• Derry Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1982
• Derry Intermediate Football League (1): 1982
• Derry Junior Football Championship (1): 1956
• Larkin Cup (2): 2003, 2013
• McGlinchey Cup (3): 1999, 2001, 2006

Senior hurling

• Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship (5): 2016, ^[18] 2017, ^[19] 2019, 2021, ^[20] 2024 (Runners-up 2000, 2013) ^[21]
• Derry Senior Hurling Championship (18): 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, ^[22] 2014, ^[23] 2015, ^[24] 2016, ^[25] 2017 ^[26] 2018, 2019, ^[27] 2020, ^[28] 2021, ^[29] 2022, ^[30] 2023, ^[31] 2024 ^[5]

Senior camogie

• All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship (3): 2017, 2018, 2019 ^[10] (Runners-up 2020) ^[32]
• Ulster Senior Club Camogie Championship (6): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, ^[33] 2020, ^[34] 2021 ^[35]

Notable players

• Patsy Bradley – Former Derry player. Part of Derry's 2002 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning side.
• Francis McEldowney – dual player
• Chrissy McKaigue – Derry footballer and dual club player
• Cormac O'Doherty – Derry U-21 hurler and dual club player
• Brendan Rogers – Derry footballer and dual club player

See also

• List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry

References

1. "Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards – 2000". Archived from the original on 17 June 2006. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
2. "Derry GAA Clubs". derrygaa.ie. Derry GAA. Retrieved 8 December 2021. Emmett's G.A.C. Slaughtneil, Founded in 1953 currently field 9 teams at all levels in three codes, Football Hurling and Camogie
3. "Slaughtneil - an inspiration to every other GAA club in Ireland". sportsjoe.ie. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
4. "Slaughtneil make it 11 Derry hurling titles in a row with victory over Kevin Lynch's/". www.derryjournal.com. Derry Journal. 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
5. "Cormac O'Doherty shines as Slaughtneil make it a dozen Derry SHC crowns in a row". Irish Independent. 26 October 2024. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
6. "Slaughtneil become first Derry team to win Ulster Club Hurling title" . Retrieved 21 October 2016.
7. "SFC Final 2020 Matchday Programme" (PDF). derrygaa.ie. Derry GAA. Retrieved 8 December 2021. Senior Championship Winners [..] Slaughtneil .. 5 .. 2004 2014 2015 2016 2017
8. "Slaughtneil clinch sixth Derry SFC with victory over Magherafelt". bbc.com. BBC. 4 October 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
9. "Ruthless Slaughtneil bag seventh consecutive Derry senior camogie title with comprehensive win over Ballinascreen". irishnews.com. 27 September 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
10. "Classy Slaughtneil claim third title in succession". Irish Independent . 4 March 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
11. "Bradley snatches stunning win". Irish Examiner . 1 December 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
12. "Slaughtneil edge Kilcoo to complete magnificent treble". Irish Examiner . 28 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
13. "Slaughtneil's amazing run goes on". Irish Examiner . 27 November 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
14. "Last-gasp Bradley goal secures title for Slaughtneil". Irish Examiner . 20 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
15. "Derry SFC final: Slaughtneil do the 'double double'". Hogan Stand . 4 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
16. "Derry SFC final: Slaughtneil complete four in-a-row in style". Hogan Stand . 24 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
17. "Derry SFC Final: Slaughtneil back on top after dethroning Magherafelt". gaa.ie. GAA. 4 October 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
18. "Slaughtneil become first Derry team to win Ulster Club Hurling title". BBC Sport. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
19. "Slaughtneil claim Ulster hurling double". Irish Independent . 23 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
20. "Slaughtneil 1-14 Ballycran 0-10: Dominant Derry side retain Ulster Hurling title". BBC Sport. 19 December 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
21. "Loughgiel secure title". Irish Examiner . 28 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
22. "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil end 13-year wait". Hogan Stand . 26 August 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
23. "Slaughtneil's stoppage-time blitz foils Lynch's in thriller". Irish Independent . 29 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
24. "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil rout Swatragh". Hogan Stand . 20 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
25. "Derry SHC final: late Rogers brace seals Slaughtneil four-in-a-row". Hogan Stand . 11 September 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
26. "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil complete five-in-a-row". Hogan Stand . 16 September 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
27. "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil in seventh heaven". Hogan Stand . 29 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
28. "SHC Final: Kevin Lynch's 0-11 Slaughtneil 0-23". derrygaa.ie. Derry GAA. 14 September 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2021. Slaughtneil secure[d] their eighth successive Leadon Timberframe Derry SHC crown on Sunday [13 September 2020]
29. "Derry Senior Hurling Championship final: Slaughtneil win ninth consecutive title". bbc.com. BBC. 24 October 2021. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
30. "Slaughtneils-Derry-10-in-a-row-dream-becomes-a-reality/". RTE. 25 September 2022. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
31. "Slaughtneil make it 11 Derry hurling titles in a row with victory over Kevin Lynch's/". www.derryjournal.com. Derry Journal. 17 September 2023. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
32. "Heartbreak for Slaughtneil in Camogie Final". derrygaa.ie. Derry GAA. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
33. "'Here's three girls that buried their father and they arrive to training that evening' - the rise of Slaughtneil". the42.ie. Retrieved 8 December 2021. From having no Ulster titles back in 2016, Slaughtneil now had four-in-a-row
34. "2020 Ulster Club Camogie Final: Slaughtneil earn fifth straight title with 1-12 to 0-8 replay win over Loughgiel". bbc.com. BBC. 4 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
35. "Ulster Senior Club Camogie final: Slaughtneil claim historic six-in-a-row with win over Loughgiel". BBC. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2024.

External links

• Slaughneil GAC website