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Founded:
  
1953

Colours:
  
Maroon and White

Football
  
Hurling

County:
  
Derry

Grounds:
  
Emmet Park

Nickname:
  
The Robbies; Na hEiméid

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, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of the Derry GAA and compete in gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet and play their home games at Emmet Park.

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The club withdrew its football and hurling teams from the 1981 Derry Football Championship and Derry Hurling Championship in support of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strikers.

Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship three times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship six times. Slaughtneil also won their first senior camogie championship in 2012 and their second in 2015.Slaughtneil won Club of the Year at the 2000 Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards. On 30 November 2014 Slaughtneil won their first Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, beating Omagh St Enda's by 1-10 to 1-9.

2016 Football Season

  • Match Info Source derrygaa.ie

    • Gaelic football

    Slaughtneil won their first Senior County Championship in 2004, defeating 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.

    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.

    Senior Football

  • Ulster Senior Club Football Championship: 2
  • 2014, 2016
  • Derry Senior Football Championship: 4
  • 2004, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Derry Senior Football League: 2
  • 2001, 2013
  • 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

    • Reserves

  • Derry Reserve Football Championship: 4
  • 1975, 2010, 2011, 2016

    • Under 21

  • South Derry Championship Jack Cassidy Cup: 1
  • 2013
  • Derry Championship Tommy O'Neill Cup: 1
  • 2013

    • Minor

    Ulster Minor Club Football Championship: 1

  • 1998

    • Derry Minor Football Championship: 3

  • 1998, 1999, 2000

    • Derry Minor Football League: 2

  • 1999, 2000

    • Under 14

    Derry U14 Feile Football Champions: 1

  • 2009

    • Senior Hurling

  • Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship: 1
  • 2016
  • Runners-Up 2000, 2013,
  • Derry Senior Hurling Championship: 10
  • 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1993, 2000, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

    • Under 21 Hurling

    Derry U-21 Hurling Championship 8

  • 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

    • Minor Hurling

  • Derry Minor Hurling Championship: 6
  • 1998, 1999, 2006, 2010, 2011 2012

    • Under 16 Hurling

  • Derry U-16 Hurling Championship: 6
  • 1998, 2008, 2009, 2010,2011, 2012

    • Under 14 Hurling

  • Derry Féile na nGael: 6
  • 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Derry U-14 Hurling Championship: 6
  • 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
  • Derry u14 League Winners: 5*
  • 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Ulster Féile na nGael Division 1: 1
  • 2009

    • * Note: Some honours, particularly those marked with * may be incomplete lists. Please add in any other honours you know of.

    Notable Footballers

  • Chrissy McKaigue
  • Patsy Bradley - Former Derry player. Part of Derry's 2002 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning side.

    • References

    Slaughtneil GAC Wikipedia
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