Glen GAC

Watty Graham's GAC Glen
An Ghleann
Founded: 1948
County: Derry
Nickname: Wattys
Colours: Green, White and Yellow
Grounds: Watty Graham Park
Coordinates: 54°50′23.44″N 6°41′17.98″W / 54.8398444°N 6.6883278°W / 54.8398444; -6.6883278Coordinates: 54°50′23.44″N 6°41′17.98″W / 54.8398444°N 6.6883278°W / 54.8398444; -6.6883278
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Ladies
Senior Club Championships
All Ireland Ulster
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Ladies' football: – – 6

Watty Graham's GAC Glen (Irish: An Ghleann) is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The team draws players from Maghera and some surrounding townlands. It currently caters for gaelic football, ladies' gaelic football and camogie.

Glen compete in Scór, and have won the All-Ireland Scór na nÓg and the Ulster Scór senior dancing.

Underage teams up to U-12's play in South Derry league and championships,and, from U-14 upwards, teams compete in All-Derry competitions.

2016 Season

2016 Football Season

Championship Football - Glen
Match Details Date
Senior Football
Glen 3-12 0-7 Swatragh
Preliminary Match 		7 August
Glen 0-17 1-8 Dungiven
First Round 		20 August
Glen 0-13 0-16 Loup
Quarter Final 		4 September
Reserve Football
Glen 0-6 4-17 Loup
First Round 		29 August
Under 21 15-a-side Football
Glen v City Oaks
City Oaks conceded
Jack Cassidy Quarter Final 		—
Glen 2-14 0-4 Loup
Jack Cassidy Semi Final 		17 November
Glen 1-17 1-8 Swatragh
Jack Cassidy Final 		30 November
Minor B1 Football
Glen 1-14 3-9 Coleraine
First Round 		8 August
Under 16 A Football
Glen 1-11 1-4 Faughanvale
Quarter Final 		11 August
Glen 0-12 3-17 Bellaghy
Semi Final 		25 August
Under 14 A Football
Glen 1-4 7-6 Lavey
Quarter Final 		23 August

2016 Ladies' Football Season

Ladies' Championship Football - Glen
Match Details Date
Ladies' Senior Football
Glen 2-8 1-2 Ballinascreen
Final 		10 September

Camogie

Glen fields Camogie teams at U12, U14, U16, Minor and Senior levels. The senior team competes in the Credit Union Derry Premier League.

Ladies' football

Glen Ladies football club was formed in 1995.[1] The club has won the Derry Senior Ladies' Football Championship 11 times and currently have won nine in a row.

Watty Graham Park

The club's home ground is Watty Graham Park. It was opened in 1982 by then GAA President Paddy Buggy.[2] The first game was an over-35s game, which was followed by an inter-county match between Derry and Armagh.[2] Celtic Park in Derry City is officially recognised as Derry's main county ground,[3] but Watty Graham Park has hosted a number of National League and Dr. McKenna Cup games. Watty Graham Park currently has a capacity of six thousand.[2]

History

The Watty Graham club evolved from the Pearse's club formed around 1933, when Fr Anthony Doherty among others arranged a South Derry league. The club reached the 1944 South Derry final and a few of their players represented Derry.[4]

After the folding of the Pearse's club, Watty Graham's GAC Glen was officially formed in 1948. In the early 1950s it competed in a number of South Derry Finals and in 1953 they defeated St John's Mullan (a townland of Ballinderry) to win the South Derry Junior Championship. They won the same title six years later defeating The Loup in the final.

In 1964 they won the South Derry Junior and Derry Junior Football Championship by beating Littlebridge (part of the modern day Ógra Colmcille club) and Sarfield's respectively.[4] The side repeated this feat in 1966 by beating The Loup in the South Derry Junior final before going on to win the Derry Junior final. The 1970s proved a barren decade for Watty Graham's and they have little apart from a McGlinchey Cup success in 1974 to show for it.[4] Glen opened a new social club in Maghera in April 1976.

The club won its first Derry Intermediate Football Championship in 1980. They overcame Drumsurn in the final by 0-06 to 0-03. Glen won a second Intermediate Championship in 1983 defeating Drum in the final.[4]

In 1985 Watty Graham's won the All-Ireland Óg Sport title. They competed in county, provincial and All Ireland phases to come out winners. Two years later they won the Derry Minor Football Championship with a success over Ballinascreen. The same year Glen won the Larkin Cup and also the Senior Division 1 League. The side added another Larkin Cup in 1995. Glen won their fourth and fifth Junior Championship in 2004 and 2005, the competitions this time won by the Glen Thirds team. This same Thirds team went on to win three in a row by winning the Thirds Championship in 2006.

After a prolonged period of dominance in underage football Glen won their fourth successive Ulster Minor Championship on 1 January 2015.

Football Titles

Senior

Under 21

Minor

U-16

U-15

U-14

U-13

Ladies' Gaelic Football Titles

Note 1: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.
Note 2: Most of the Ladies' honours are only updated as far as 2002. Please add any other honours you know of.

Well known players

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "A brief history of Glen Ladies' Gaelic football team". Archived from the original on 2009-08-08. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  2. 1 2 3 Scott, Ronan (20 March 2009). "Glen next stop on Derry magical mystery tour". Gaelic Life. p. 5.
  3. ↑ Scott, Ronan (13 February 2009). "'Screen to win back hearts of Derry fans". Gaelic Life. p. 3.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "A history of the Watty Graham Club by Eamonn Higgins". Archived from the original on 2007-08-23. Retrieved 2007-09-07.
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