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Kickhams GAC Creggan, founded in 1924, is a
Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...
club from Creggan,
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. The club provides
Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...
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hurling Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...
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camogie Camogie ( ; ) is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. Camogie is played by 100,000 women in Ireland and worldwide, largely among Irish communities. A variant of the game "hurling" (which is played by men only), it is organised ...
and ladies football for all age groups from under-10s to senior level. Creggan host the annual Ulster U21 Club Football Tournament which runs from January to March and is contested by the nine
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county champions. The winners receive the Paddy McLarnon Cup.


Peadar Heffron

Peadar Heffron played both Gaelic football and hurling for the club and twice helped the club to the Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship title. In an interview with the Sunday Independent, he stated that "his club turned their back on him as he announced plans to join the newly-formed PSNI in 2002." In 2010 Heffron was seriously injured, losing his right leg, when a dissident republican bomb was detonated under his car. Two club committee members who visited Heffron's parents while he was in a coma said "we are not here to represent the club, we are only here in a personal capacity?". The Club refused to comment.


Honours

* Antrim Senior Football Championship (3) ** 1943, 1954, 2021 * Ulster Senior Club Camogie Championship (2) ** 1973, 1976 * Antrim Senior Camogie Championship (9) ** 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1970, 1973, 1976, 1980


References


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* 1924 establishments in Northern Ireland Sport in Antrim, County Antrim Gaelic games clubs in County Antrim Gaelic football clubs in County Antrim {{Ulster-GAA-club-stub