Slaughtneil GAC
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Robert Emmet's GAC Slaughtneil 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 Strike
rs.
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.
* Note: Some honours, particularly those marked with * may be incomplete lists. Please add in any other honours you know of.
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...
club based in Slaughtneil, County Londonderry
County Londonderry
The place name Derry is an anglicisation of the old Irish Daire meaning oak-grove or oak-wood. As with the city, its name is subject to the Derry/Londonderry name dispute, with the form Derry preferred by nationalists and Londonderry preferred by unionists...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
. The club is a member of the Derry GAA
Derry GAA
The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Derry GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic games in the GAA county of Derry, which covers virtually the same territory as the former administrative county of Londonderry...
and currently cater for Gaelic football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...
, Hurling
Hurling
Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...
and Camogie
Camogie
Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women; it is almost identical to the game of hurling played by men. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and world wide, largely among Irish communities....
. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader born in Dublin, Ireland...
and play their home games at Emmet Park.
The club famously pulled its football and hurling teams out of the 1981 Derry Football Championship
Derry Senior Club Football Championship
The Derry Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football club competition between the top Derry GAA clubs...
and Derry Hurling Championship
Derry Senior Club Hurling Championship
The Derry Senior Hurling Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Derry hurling clubs. The winners of the Derry Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland...
to show their support and solidarity with the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
1981 Irish hunger strike
The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners...
rs.
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
Derry GAA
The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Derry GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic games in the GAA county of Derry, which covers virtually the same territory as the former administrative county of Londonderry...
league and championships, from U-14 upwards teams compete in All-Derry competitions. Slaughtneil won Club of the Year at the 2000 Ulster GAA
Ulster GAA
The Ulster Council is a Provincial council of the Gaelic Athletic Association sports of hurling, Gaelic football, camogie, and handball in the province of Ulster. The headquarters of the Ulster GAA is based in Armagh City....
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 Derry Senior Football Championship 2004Derry Senior Football Championship 2004
-See also:*Derry Senior Football Championship*Derry club football competitions*Derry Senior Hurling Championship-External links:***...
Well known Players
- Francis McEldowneyFrancis McEldowneyFrancis McEldowney is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry, with whom he has won a National League title.McEldowney plays his club football and hurling for Robert Emmet's Slaughtneil, with whom he won a Derry Senior Football Championship and Derry Senior Hurling Championship...
- Current Derry player. - Patsy BradleyPatsy BradleyPatsy Bradley is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry, with whom he has won a National League title. Bradley plays his club football for Robert Emmet's Slaughtneil and has won the Derry Senior Football Championship with the club...
- Current Derry player. Part of Derry's 2002 All-Ireland Minor Football ChampionshipAll-Ireland Minor Football ChampionshipThe All-Ireland Minor Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition for under-18 competitors of the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland...
winning side.
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.Senior
- Derry Senior Football Championship: 1
- 2004
- Derry Senior Football League: 1
- 2001
- Derry Intermediate Football ChampionshipDerry Intermediate Football ChampionshipThe Derry Intermediate Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic football club competition between the intermediate Derry clubs...
: 1- 1982
- Derry Intermediate Football League: 1
- 1982
- Derry Junior Football ChampionshipDerry Junior Football ChampionshipThe Derry Junior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the Junior Derry clubs...
: 1- 1956
- Larkin Cup 1
- 2003
- McGlinchey Cup 3
- 1999, 2001, 2006
Minor
- Ulster Minor Club Football ChampionshipUlster Minor Club Football ChampionshipThe Ulster Minor Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament played between the hundreds of minor football clubs in Ulster. There are nine county championships between the nine counties of Ulster. The nine winners go on to play each other in the Ulster Club Championship in a...
: 1- 1998
- Derry Minor Football Championship: 3
- 1998, 1999, 2000
- Derry Minor Football League: 2
- 1999, 2000
- Derry U14 Feile Football Champions: 1
- 2009
U-14
- Derry Féile na nGael: 6
- 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Derry U-14 Hurling Championship: 5
- 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- 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