{{Short description|Armagh-based Gaelic games club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox GAA club | club gaa = Middletown GAC | irish = Coillidh Chanannáin | crest = Middletown Gaelic Athletic Club logo.png | founded = 1900 | province = Ulster | county = Armagh | colours = Black and White | grounds = P. J. O'Neill Park | coordinates ={{coord|54.29659|-6.847135|format=dms|display=ti}} | pattern_la = _shouldersonblack | pattern_b = _blackstripes | pattern_ra = _shouldersonblack | pattern_sh = _black_thinstripe_color | pattern_so = _black_band_color | shorts = 000000 | socks = 000000 | h3 = 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 ({{langx|ga|Páirc P.J. Uí Néill}}).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.armaghgaa.net/scorbook2011.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130626114115/http://www.armaghgaa.net/scorbook2011.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Armagh GAA, page 11|archivedate=26 June 2013}}</ref>
==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.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/county/armagh/article/index/70451|title=Middletown back on top - HoganStand|website=www.hoganstand.com}}</ref> ==Hurling== The club plays as '''Na Fianna''' in hurling, and has won the Armagh Senior Hurling Championship 20 times. They completed an historic 7 in a row in September 2025 with a win against Keady in the final.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=176658 |title=Middletown retain crown|date= 3 September 2012|work=Hogan Stand|accessdate=3 October 2012 }}</ref>
===Honours=== * '''All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship''' Runners-up 2012 * '''Ulster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship''' (2) ** 2011, 2017<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/maguire-strikes-late-to-seal-middletown-title-36251106.html|title=Maguire strikes late to seal Middletown title |accessdate=27 October 2017 |work=Irish Independent |publisher= |date=23 October 2017}}</ref> *'''Armagh Senior Hurling Championship''' (20) **1981, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armaghgaa.net/middletown-clinch-senior-title/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173713/http://www.armaghgaa.net/middletown-clinch-senior-title/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 September 2015 |title=MIDDLETOWN CLINCH SENIOR TITLE |accessdate=25 August 2015 |work=Armagh GAA |date=23 August 2015 }}</ref> 2016<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=259890 |title=Armagh SHC final: two-in-a-row for Middletown |accessdate=22 August 2016 |work=Hogan Stand |publisher= |date=22 August 2016}}</ref> 2017, 2019,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Article/Index/302770 |title=Armagh SHC final: Middletown regain crown |accessdate=12 August 2019 |work=Hogan Stand |publisher= |date=12 August 2019}}</ref> 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
==Gaelic football== The club plays as '''Eoghan Ruadh''' in football.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gaeliclife.com/2012/01/26/club-of-the-week-middletown/|title=Club of the week - Middletown|date= |work=Gaelic Life|accessdate=3 October 2012 }}</ref>
===Honours=== *'''Armagh Intermediate Football Championship''' (1) **1976 *'''Armagh Junior Football Championship''' (2) **1974, 2008
==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.<ref name="auto"/>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120821135720/http://www.armaghgaa.net/middletown-gac/ Armagh GAA site]
{{Armagh GAA clubs}}
Category:Gaelic games clubs in County Armagh Category:Gaelic football clubs in County Armagh Category:Hurling clubs in County Armagh