Category: Derry GAA History

March 6th, 2020

Football: Roll of Honour

Derry’s footballing Roll of Honour.

February 8th, 2020

Derry’s Forgotten Title: 25 years on

Leaving Croke Park on a Sunday in mid-May 1995, Derry had another national title in their hands. Here’s how that National League title ended back in the Oak Leaf county.

January 24th, 2020

The Day Colm Mulholland met Packie McGarty

It was the occasion of the National League semi-final of 1959. Derry’s centre half back, Colm Mulholland, made his way across the Croke Park pitch, keenly eyeing up his Leitrim opponent: the legendary Packie McGarty.

January 13th, 2020

Derry GAA: A Pocket History

Four years after the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Thurles in 1884, some 250 miles away the first County Board was set up in Derry.