Belcoo O'Rahilly's
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HistoryTHE HISTORY OF BELCOO O’RAHILLY’S
The Beginning
Holywell Belcoo Today’s Team
The potential of this current crop of young players became evident in 2004 when they won the clubs first ever Division One Minor League title. The following year the Minor League and Championship Double was completed. As well as the minor double success of 2005, the majority of these players made up the Junior Side that won the Division 2 Junior League. In 2006 the Seniors went the entire Division 2 league season unbeaten but lost the league final to Irvinestown, but the main objective of playing Division One football was achieve. Also in 2006 the Seniors won the Intermediate Championship Final following two draws with Brookeborough before we came out on top in the third game. Into the Ulster Intermediate Championship were we beat Drumgath but lost in the Semi Final to Coleraine, who went on the reach the All Ireland Final.
Milestone Year (2007)
For the first time in a number of years the seniors would compete in the Division One league following promotion from Division 2. The season started with some excellent victories and the team’s style of play was talked about throughout the county. This team was to make History at the end of the season when they lifted the clubs First Ever Senior Title when they defeated Teemore in the League Final on a score line of 2-15 to 1-8 in Kinawley on October 14th 2007. The team on this historic day was James McGrath, Emmet Scollan, Niall Leonard, Mark McGovern, Sean McNulty, Ryan Dolan, Declan Leonard, Stephen Maguire (0-2), Seamus Conlon, Paul McGrath (0-4), Shane McCabe (0-1), Brian Cox (1-2), Kieran Leonard (0-5), John Carrigan (1-1), Ciaran Flaherty. Subsititutes included Kevin McPartland, Ryan, Gavin and Christopher Leonard, Ryan McGovern, Nevan Higgins and Shain Gallagher. The management setup included John Joe Stewart, Brian Treacy and Tony McGourty.
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