CLG Roibeard Éiméid Sleacht Néill | |||||||||||||||||
Founded: | 1953 | ||||||||||||||||
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County: | Derry | ||||||||||||||||
Nickname: | The Robbies; Na hEiméid | ||||||||||||||||
Colours: | Maroon and white | ||||||||||||||||
Grounds: | Emmet Park | ||||||||||||||||
Coordinates: | 54°53′01″N 6°42′02″W / 54.88361°N 6.70056°W | ||||||||||||||||
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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, near Maghera, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The club is a member of Derry GAA and competes in Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is named after Irish patriot and revolutionary Robert Emmet and the club plays its home games at Emmet Park.
Slaughtneil have won the Derry Senior Football Championship six times and the Derry Senior Hurling Championship 18 times. Slaughtneil also won their first Derry senior camogie championship in 2012, and has since won three All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship titles. Slaughtneil won "Club of the Year" at the 2000 Ulster GAA Writer's Association Awards.[1]