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| Colours: | Maroon and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Emmet Park | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°53′00.08″N 6°42′01.10″W / 54.8833556°N 6.7003056°W / 54.8833556; -6.7003056 | ||||||||||||
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Football
Robert Emmet's GAC Slaughtneil (Template:Lang-ga) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Slaughtneil, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of the Derry GAA and currently cater for Gaelic football, Hurling and Camogie. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet and play their home games at Emmet Park.
The club famously pulled its football and hurling teams out of the 1981 Derry Football Championship and Derry Hurling Championship to show their support and solidarity with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikers.
Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship once and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship six times. Underage teams up to U-12's play in South Derry league and championships, from U-14 upwards teams compete in All-Derry competitions. Slaughtneil won Club of the Year at the 2000 Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards.
Gaelic football
Slaughtneil fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve, Thirds and Senior levels. They won their first Senior County Championship in 2004, defeating Bellaghy at Watty Graham Park, Maghera.
Well known Players
- Francis McEldowney - Current Derry player.
- Patsy Bradley - Current Derry player. Part of Derry's 2002 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning side.
- Fiontan Mac Giolla Bhrighde - Current minor football star. Once described by Pat Tad as 'The best up and coming young footballer in fallalea since Mal McMullan'. Had a brief hiatus in 2010 when he took time out to overcome his alcohol problem but has come back stronger. Had a promising start to the hurling season but after a match against Banagher had an argument with Damian 'cob' McEldowney when fiontan said to cob "I don't like the way you're running things here" and promptly left.
- John 'Sid' McGuckin - Current Minor Hurling star. Well renowned for his decisions to wear limited amounts of clothing during training sessions in Arctic conditions.
- "Mad" Conán Glass A Player whose firey temperament is matched only by his work ethic, A prominent player who rose to fame during the 2011 U12 Hurling championship when he led Slaughtneil to victory over Dungiven (3-12 - 1-14 with Conán's personal tally of 2-3) which sparked rumour's of ineligibility to play due to the fact he was 5 years over age. The county board later overturned the decision making Conán the most successful player in the history of U12 hurling with victories in 05,06,07(C),10(C) and 2011(VC).
Hurling
Slaughtneil has U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, Reserve, and Senior levels hurling teams. They've won the Senior County Championship on six occasions, the most recent being in 2000.
Camogie
Slaughtneil fields Camogie teams at u6 u10 U12, U14, U16 Minor, and Senior levels.
Honours
Senior
- Derry Senior Football Championship:1
- 2004
- Derry Senior Football League: 1
- 2001
- Derry Intermediate Football League: 1
- 1982
- Larkin Cup 1
- 2003
- McGlinchey Cup 3
- 1999, 2001, 2006
Reserves
- Derry Reserve Football Championship: 1
- 1975
Minor
- Derry Minor Football Championship: 3
- 1998, 1999, 2000
- Derry Minor Football League: 2
- 1999, 2000
- Derry U14 Feile Football Champions: 1
- 2009
Hurling
Senior
- Derry Senior Hurling Championship: 6
- 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000,
U21
Derry u21 Hurling Championship 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Minor
- Derry Minor Hurling Championship: 5
- 1998, 1999, 2006, 2010, 2011
U-16
- Derry U-16 Hurling Championship: 5
- 1998, 2008, 2009, 2010,
U-14
- Derry Féile na nGael: 6
- 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Derry U-14 Hurling Championship: 6
- 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
- Derry u14 League Winners: 5*
- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Ulster Féile na nGael Division 1: 1
- 2009
* Note: Some honours, particularly those marked with * may be incomplete lists. Please add in any other honours you know of.
See also
- Derry Senior Football Championship
- Derry Senior Hurling Championship
- List of Gaelic Athletic Association clubs in Derry
External links
References
- "Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards - 2000". Retrieved 2007-09-11.
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