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| CLG Seán Ó Laoghaire Droichead Nua | |||||||||
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| Founded: | 1925 | ||||||||
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| County: | Derry | ||||||||
| Nickname: | The Bridge | ||||||||
| Colours: | Green and white | ||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Sheáin Uí Laoghaire | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°45′41.79″N6°30′25.00″W / 54.7616083°N 6.5069444°W /54.7616083; -6.5069444 | ||||||||
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Seán O'Leary's GAC Newbridge (Irish:CLG Seán Ó Laoghaire Droichead Nua) is aGaelic Athletic Association club based inNewbridge,County Londonderry,Northern Ireland. The club is a member ofDerry GAA and currently caters forGaelic football andcamogie. Newbridge has won theDerry Senior Football Championship on eleven occasions.
Teams up to Under-12s play inSouth Derry league and championships, and those from U-14 upwards compete in All-Derry competitions.
Gaelic games had been played on the western shores ofLough Neagh for decades before the founding of the club. Seán O'Leary's GAC Newbridge was established in 1925 and covered the Newbridge andBallymaguigan areas, both inArdtrea North parish. The American Army built Toome airfield duringWorld War II. This effectively split the parish in two, making it very difficult for the Ballymaguigan-based players to travel to the pitch and a separate club,St Trea's GFC, was set up in Ballymaguigan in 1944.[1]
Newbridge first won theDerry Senior Football Championship in 1937 and added further Senior Championship successes in 1940, 1945 and 1948. Success carried into the 1950s and the club won the Championship again in 1950 and 1955. With the emergence of the extremely successfulBellaghy side of the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was 1966 before Newbridge added another Senior Championship, and won the competition again in 1967 and 1970.
O'Leary's won their most recent Senior Championship in 1989 and thereafter slipped down to Intermediate level. They won theDerry Intermediate Football Championship in 2002 and most recently in 2007. The club won Division 2 of the All-County League in 2008, and returned to competing at Senior level in 2009.
Newbridge fields Gaelic football teams at U8, U10, U12, U14, U16,Minor, Reserve and Senior levels. In addition to winning the Derry Senior Championship ten times, the club has won theDerry Intermediate Football Championship twice. They currently compete in the Derry Senior Championship and Division 1 of the Derry ACFL.
Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other senior-team honours you know of.
The club also has camogie teams across various ages.
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