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Slaughtneil GAC

Derry-based Gaelic games club

Slaughtneil GAC

Summary

Derry-based Gaelic games club

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Robert Emmet's Gaelic Athletic Club Slaughtneil () is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based on the townland of Slaughtneil, near Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and competes in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet and the club plays its home games at Emmet Park.

Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship six times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship 19 times. Slaughtneil also won their first Derry senior camogie championship in 2012, and has since won three All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship titles. Slaughtneil won "Club of the Year" at the 2000 Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards.

Codes

The club fields teams in several GAA codes, including hurling, Gaelic football and camogie, with teams in each code winning multiple county and provincial titles between 2013 and 2021.

Club grounds (2007)

Hurling

Slaughtneil is one of the most successful clubs in the Derry Senior Hurling Championship, having won 18 county titles, including 12 successive titles between 2013 and 2024.

Slaughtneil are the only Derry team to have ever won the Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship lifting the Four Seasons Cup in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2024.

Gaelic football

As of October 2020, the club had won six Senior County Championship titles. The first of these came in 2004, when Slaughtneil defeated Bellaghy at Watty Graham Park, Maghera. Slaughtneil won their second Derry title in 2014 and their third in 2015. On 30 November 2014, Slaughtneil beat Omagh St Enda's to claim their first Ulster Club Championship. The club went on to win additional Ulster club titles in 2016 and 2017.

Camogie

Slaughtneil fields camogie teams at U6, U10, U12, U14, U16, Minor, and Senior levels. Slaughtneil won the Senior Camogie Championship in 2012 and 2015 and the Derry League in both years. In 2014 and 2015 they won the Ulster League. In September 2021, Slaughtneil's camogie team won its seventh consecutive Derry senior camogie title.

In 2017 they won the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship, and retained this title in 2018 and 2019.

Honours

Senior football

  • Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (3): 2014,{{cite web|url = http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/bradley-snatches-stunning-win-300323.html|title= Bradley snatches stunning win
  • Derry Senior Football Championship (6): 2004, 2014, 2015,{{cite news |url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Derry/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=245056 |title=Derry SFC final: Slaughtneil do the 'double double' |access-date=5 October 2015 |work=Hogan Stand |date= 4 October 2015}} 2016, 2017, 2020.
  • Derry Senior Football League (3): 2001, 2013, 2018
  • Derry Intermediate Football Championship (1): 1982
  • Derry Intermediate Football League (1): 1982
  • Derry Junior Football Championship (1): 1956
  • Larkin Cup (2): 2003, 2013
  • McGlinchey Cup (3): 1999, 2001, 2006

Senior hurling

  • Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship (5): 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2024
  • Derry Senior Hurling Championship (19): 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Senior camogie

  • All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship (3): 2017, 2018, 2019 (Runners-up 2020)
  • Ulster Senior Club Camogie Championship (6): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Notable players

  • Patsy Bradley – Former Derry player. Part of Derry's 2002 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning side.
  • Francis McEldowney – dual player
  • Chrissy McKaigue – Derry footballer and dual club player
  • Cormac O'Doherty – Derry U-21 hurler and dual club player
  • Brendan Rogers – Derry footballer and dual club player
  • Shane McGuigan (Gaelic footballer) - Derry footballer and dual club player 2023 football All-star

References

References

  1. "Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards – 2000".
  2. "Derry GAA Clubs". Derry GAA.
  3. (3 March 2019). "Slaughtneil - an inspiration to every other GAA club in Ireland".
  4. (17 September 2023). "Slaughtneil make it 11 Derry hurling titles in a row with victory over Kevin Lynch's/". Derry Journal.
  5. (26 October 2024). "Cormac O'Doherty shines as Slaughtneil make it a dozen Derry SHC crowns in a row". Irish Independent.
  6. "Slaughtneil become first Derry team to win Ulster Club Hurling title".
  7. "SFC Final 2020 Matchday Programme". Derry GAA.
  8. (4 October 2020). "Slaughtneil clinch sixth Derry SFC with victory over Magherafelt". BBC.
  9. (27 September 2021). "Ruthless Slaughtneil bag seventh consecutive Derry senior camogie title with comprehensive win over Ballinascreen".
  10. (4 March 2019). "Classy Slaughtneil claim third title in succession". [[Irish Independent]].
  11. (28 November 2016). "Slaughtneil edge Kilcoo to complete magnificent treble". [[Irish Examiner]].
  12. (27 November 2017). "Slaughtneil's amazing run goes on". [[Irish Examiner]].
  13. (20 October 2014). "Last-gasp Bradley goal secures title for Slaughtneil". [[Irish Examiner]].
  14. (24 September 2017). "Derry SFC final: Slaughtneil complete four in-a-row in style". [[Hogan Stand]].
  15. (4 October 2020). "Derry SFC Final: Slaughtneil back on top after dethroning Magherafelt". GAA.
  16. (23 October 2016). "Slaughtneil become first Derry team to win Ulster Club Hurling title". BBC Sport.
  17. (23 October 2017). "Slaughtneil claim Ulster hurling double". [[Irish Independent]].
  18. (19 December 2021). "Slaughtneil 1-14 Ballycran 0-10: Dominant Derry side retain Ulster Hurling title". BBC Sport.
  19. (26 August 2013). "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil end 13-year wait". [[Hogan Stand]].
  20. (29 September 2014). "Slaughtneil's stoppage-time blitz foils Lynch's in thriller". [[Irish Independent]].
  21. (20 September 2015). "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil rout Swatragh". [[Hogan Stand]].
  22. (11 September 2016). "Derry SHC final: late Rogers brace seals Slaughtneil four-in-a-row". [[Hogan Stand]].
  23. (16 September 2017). "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil complete five-in-a-row". [[Hogan Stand]].
  24. (29 September 2019). "Derry SHC final: Slaughtneil in seventh heaven". [[Hogan Stand]].
  25. (14 September 2020). "SHC Final: Kevin Lynch's 0-11 Slaughtneil 0-23". Derry GAA.
  26. (24 October 2021). "Derry Senior Hurling Championship final: Slaughtneil win ninth consecutive title". BBC.
  27. (25 September 2022). "Slaughtneils-Derry-10-in-a-row-dream-becomes-a-reality/". RTE.
  28. (2 March 2020). "Heartbreak for Slaughtneil in Camogie Final". Derry GAA.
  29. "'Here's three girls that buried their father and they arrive to training that evening' - the rise of Slaughtneil".
  30. (4 December 2021). "2020 Ulster Club Camogie Final: Slaughtneil earn fifth straight title with 1-12 to 0-8 replay win over Loughgiel". BBC.
  31. (15 January 2022). "Ulster Senior Club Camogie final: Slaughtneil claim historic six-in-a-row with win over Loughgiel".
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