| Baile Eachaidh | |||||||||||||
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| Founded: | 1939 | ||||||||||||
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| County: | Derry | ||||||||||||
| Nickname: | The Tones | ||||||||||||
| Colours: | Blue and White | ||||||||||||
| Grounds: | Páirc Seán de Brún Wolfe Tone Park | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 54°48′25.71″N 6°30′53.22″W / 54.8071417°N 6.5147833°W | ||||||||||||
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Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club (Irish: CLG Baile Eachaidh) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and currently competes in gaelic football and camogie.
Bellaghy have won 21 Derry Senior Football Championships, four Ulster Senior Club Football Championships and the 1971-72 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. Bellaghy camogie club have won two Derry Senior Camogie Championships.
On 12 May 1997, the Club Chairman, Sean Brown, was attacked and abducted by a Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) gang as he locked the main gate of the GAA grounds on the Ballyscullion Road. Less than an hour later the body of the father-of-six was found lying beside his burnt-out car just off the Moneynick Road near Randalstown, County Antrim. He had been shot six times.[1][2] On 19 January 2004 the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland published a report that was highly critical of the police investigation into Brown's killing, stating "the police investigation was incomplete and inadequate".[3]
- ^ "Loyalist linked to many sectarian killings was quizzed over death". Archived from the original on 7 June 2007. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
- ^ "CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1997". Archived from the original on 28 February 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
- ^ "The investigation by police of the murder of Mr Sean Brown on 12 May 1997" (PDF). The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 3 March 2008.