Bellaghy GAC


Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club 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 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. 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".

Football titles

Senior Football

  • All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship
  • * 1971-1972
  • All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship
  • *1986, 2002
  • Ulster Senior Club Football Championship
  • * 1968, 1971, 1994, 2000
  • Derry Senior Football Championship
  • * 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
  • * 1947, 1986, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2023
  • Derry Intermediate Football Championship
  • * 1990
  • Derry Junior Football Championship
  • * 1962
  • Graham Cup
  • * 2000, 2004
  • Sean Larkin Cup
  • * 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2018
  • Thirds Championship
  • * 2007

    Minor Football

  • Ulster Minor Club Football Championship 3
  • * 1991, 1994, 2018
  • 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 and All-Ireland Under-21 Championships.
  • 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 - All Ireland minor winner 1989 and All Ireland senior winner 1993
  • Fergal Doherty - Former Derry mid-fielder.