Bellaghy GAC

{{Short description|Derry-based Gaelic games club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox GAA club | 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<br />Wolfe Tone Park | coordinates = {{coord|54|48|25.71|N|6|30|53.22|W|display=it|region:IE_type:landmark}} | f1 = 1 | f2 = 4 | f3 = 21 | c2 = 1 | c3 = 2 | pattern_la = _shoulder_stripes_white_stripes | pattern_b = _whitecollar | pattern_ra = _shoulder_stripes_white_stripes | pattern_so=_hoops white | pattern_sh= _adidaswhite | leftarm = 0000FF | body = 0000FF | rightarm = 0000FF | shorts = 0000FF | socks = 0000FF | kit1 = Home Kit | kit2 = Change Kit | pattern_la2= _adidas white |pattern_b2=_derry14 |pattern_ra2= _adidas white | pattern_so2 =_hoops white | pattern_sh2 = _adidaswhite | leftarm2=FF0000 |body2=FFFFFF |rightarm2=FF0000 | shorts2 = 0000FF | socks2 = 0000FF |}} '''Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club''' ({{langx|ga|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.serve.com/pfc/brown/040119in.html |title=Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death |accessdate=2007-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607083105/http://www.serve.com/pfc/brown/040119in.html |archive-date=2007-06-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch97.htm#12597|title= CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997|accessdate=2008-03-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080228024109/http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch97.htm| archive-date= 28 February 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/police/ombudsman/po190104brown.pdf |title= The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997 |work=The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland |accessdate=2008-03-03|format=PDF}}</ref>

==Football titles== ===Senior Football=== * '''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''' (8) ** 1947, 1986, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2023 * '''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=== * '''Ulster Minor Club Football Championship''' 3 ** 1991, 1994, 2018<ref>{{cite web |title=Brilliant Bellaghy are crowned Ulster minor club champions |url=http://www.irishnews.com/sport/2019/01/02/news/brilliant-bellaghy-are-crowned-ulster-minor-club-champions-1519232/ |website=The Irish News |accessdate=1 January 2019 |language=en |date=2 January 2019}}</ref> * '''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

==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== * 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.<ref name="tommy_diamond">{{cite news |title=Tommy Diamond remembers the golden generation of Unders 21s |work=County Derry Post |date=2008-09-23 }}</ref> * 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. * Karl Diamond - (son of Tommy) All Ireland minor winner 1989 and All Ireland senior winner 1993 * Fergal Doherty - Former Derry mid-fielder.

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== External links == * [http://www.bellaghygac.com Bellaghy GAC Website]

Category:Gaelic games clubs in County Londonderry Category:Gaelic football clubs in County Londonderry