# Bellaghy GAC

Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: CLG Baile Eachaidh) 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 (LVF) 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 (1)
** 1971-1972
* All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship (2)
** 1986, 2002
* Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (4)
** 1968, 1971, 1994, 2000
* Derry Senior Football Championship (21)
** 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 (7)
** 1947, 1986, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004
* Derry Intermediate Football Championship (1)
** 1990
* Derry Junior Football Championship (1)
** 1962 (won by Bellaghy II)
* Graham Cup (2)
** 2000, 2004
* Sean Larkin Cup (4)
** 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2018
* Thirds Championship (1)
** 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 (1965) and All-Ireland Under-21 (1968) 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 - (son of Tommy) All Ireland minor winner 1989 and All Ireland senior winner 1993
* Fergal Doherty - Former Derry mid-fielder.