# Bellaghy GAC

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{{Short description|Derry-based Gaelic games club}}
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| club gaa    = Bellaghy Wolfe Tones GAC
| irish       = Baile Eachaidh
| crest       = Bellaghy crest.jpg
| founded     = 1939
| province    = Ulster
| county      = Derry
| nickname    = The Tones
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'''Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club''' ({{langx|ga|CLG Baile Eachaidh}}) is a [Gaelic Athletic Association](/source/Gaelic_Athletic_Association) club based in [Bellaghy](/source/Bellaghy), [County Londonderry](/source/County_Londonderry), [Northern Ireland](/source/Northern_Ireland). The club is a member of [Derry GAA](/source/Derry_GAA) and currently competes in [gaelic football](/source/gaelic_football) and [camogie](/source/camogie).

Bellaghy have won 21 [Derry Senior Football Championship](/source/Derry_Senior_Football_Championship)s, four [Ulster Senior Club Football Championship](/source/Ulster_Senior_Club_Football_Championship)s and the 1971-72 [All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship](/source/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](/source/Murder_of_Sean_Brown), was attacked and abducted by a [Loyalist Volunteer Force](/source/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](/source/Randalstown), [County Antrim](/source/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](/source/All-Ireland_Senior_Club_Football_Championship)''' (1)
** 1971-1972
* '''[All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship](/source/All-Ireland_Sevens_Football)''' (2)
**1986, 2002
* '''[Ulster Senior Club Football Championship](/source/Ulster_Senior_Club_Football_Championship)''' (4)
** 1968, 1971, 1994, 2000
* '''[Derry Senior Football Championship](/source/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](/source/Derry_Intermediate_Football_Championship)''' (1)
** 1990
* '''[Derry Junior Football Championship](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Tom_Scullion)
* Tommy Diamond - Former Derry player. First player to [captain](/source/Captain_(sports)) a county to victory in both [All-Ireland Minor](/source/All-Ireland_Minor_Football_Championship) (1965) and [All-Ireland Under-21](/source/All-Ireland_Under-21_Football_Championship) (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](/source/Damian_Cassidy) - Represented Derry seniors from 1984 until 1996. Left half forward of Derry's [1993 All-Ireland](/source/All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_1993) 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](/source/Fergal_Doherty) - Former Derry mid-fielder.

== See also ==
* [Derry Senior Football Championship](/source/Derry_Senior_Football_Championship)
* [List of Gaelic games clubs in Derry](/source/List_of_Gaelic_games_clubs_in_Ireland)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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

{{Derry clubs | state=expanded}}

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

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