Robert Emmet's Gaelic Athletic Club Slaughtneil () is a

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club based on the

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of Slaughtneil, near

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. The club is a member of

Derry GAA The Derry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) () or Derry GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic games in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland (the GAA refers to the county as ...

and competes in

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 ...

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 ...

and

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 ...

. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary

Robert Emmet Robert Emmet (4 March 177820 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Prote ...

and the club plays its home games at Emmet Park. Slaughtneil have won the

Derry Senior Football Championship The Derry Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by the top sixteen Derry GAA clubs. The winners receive the John McLaughlin Cup and qualify to represent Derry in the Ulster Senior Club Football Champio ...

six times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship 18 times. Slaughtneil also won their first Derry senior camogie championship in 2012, and has since won three

All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship The All-Ireland Club Camogie Championship is a competition for club teams in the Irish women’s field sport of camogie. It is contested by the senior club champions of the leading counties and organised by An Cumann Camógaíochta. Trophy The t ...

titles. Slaughtneil won "Club of the Year" at the 2000

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Writer's Association Awards.

Codes

The club fields teams in several

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, including

and

, with teams in each code winning multiple county and provincial titles between 2013 and 2021.

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

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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

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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

, and retained this title in 2018 and 2019.

Honours

Senior football

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament organised by Ulster GAA. It is played between the Senior championship winners from each of the nine counties of Ulster. The competition was first held in 1968 an ...

(3): 2014, 2016 2017 *

(6): 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016,

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. * Derry Senior Football League (3): 2001, 2013, 2018 *

Derry Intermediate Football Championship The Derry Intermediate Football Championship (currently also known for sponsorship reasons as the ''M&L Contracts Derry Intermediate Football Championship'') is an annual competition between the mid-tier Gaelic football clubs affiliated to De ...

(1): 1982 * Derry Intermediate Football League (1): 1982 *

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(1): 1956 * Larkin Cup (2): 2003, 2013 * McGlinchey Cup (3): 1999, 2001, 2006

Senior hurling

(5): 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021,2024 (Runners-up 2000, 2013) * Derry Senior Hurling Championship (18): 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015,

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2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Senior camogie

(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 Christopher McKaigue (born 13 July 1989) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Derry county team. McKaigue plays club football and hurling for Slaughtneil Robert Emmet's. He is a defender in football and a half forward in hurling ...

– 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

References

External links

Slaughneil GAC website
{{Derry clubs Gaelic games clubs in County Londonderry Gaelic football clubs in County Londonderry Hurling clubs in County Londonderry