Robert Emmet's Gaelic Athletic Club Slaughtneil (Irish: CLG Roibeard Éiméid Sleacht Néill) 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.
| CLG Roibeard Éiméid Sleacht Néill | |||||||||||||||||
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| Founded: | 1953 | ||||||||||||||||
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| County: | Derry | ||||||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Robbies; Na hEiméid | ||||||||||||||||
| Colours: | Maroon and white | ||||||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Emmet Park | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°53′01″N 6°42′02″W / 54.88361°N 6.70056°W | ||||||||||||||||
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Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship six times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship 17 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.[1]
Codes
The club fields teams in several GAA codes, including hurling, Gaelic football and camogie,[2] with teams in each code winning multiple county and provincial titles between 2013 and 2021.[3]
Hurling
Slaughtneil is one of the most successful clubs in the Derry Senior Hurling Championship, having won 17 county titles, including 11 successive titles between 2013 and 2023.[4]
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 and 2021.[citation needed]
Gaelic football
As of October 2020, the club had won six Senior County Championship titles.[5][6] 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.[citation needed] 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.[7]
In 2017 they won the All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship, and retained this title in 2018 and 2019.[8]
Honours
Senior football
- Ulster Senior Club Football Championship (3): 2014,[9] 2016[10] 2017[11]
- Derry Senior Football Championship (6): 2004, 2014,[12] 2015,[13] 2016, 2017,[14] 2020.[15][6]
- 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 (4): 2016,[16] 2017[17] 2019 2021[18] (Runners-up 2000, 2013)[19]
- Derry Senior Hurling Championship (17): 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013,[20] 2014,[21] 2015,[22] 2016,[23] 2017[24] 2018, 2019,[25] 2020,[26] 2021,[27] 2022,[28] 2023[29]
Senior camogie
- All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship (3): 2017, 2018, 2019[8] (Runners-up 2020)[30]
- Ulster Senior Club Camogie Championship (5): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,[31] 2020.[32]
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