Northern Towns/villages without GAA clubs

[SouthArmaghBandit]

Brownlow, Gilford, Tandragee and Scarva are strickly loyalist/Unionist Areas!

Brownlow is not! Eire Og play in Brownlow. The Bessbrook hurling club is called Crouigh Rua or something like taht. They have their own ground near the mill.

[Ethan Edwards]

Derry,
Upperlands
Culnady
Castlerock
Articlave
Curran

Not a Catholic In Sight

[Maximus Marillius]

Ah articlave what a wonderful little village...very homely

[tommy1]

Donegal,
Raphoe (play with convoy or castlefin
(population of around 2,000) must be the only town of that size in the whole of REP with out a club.

St Johnston

Alot of the towns in inishowen movile, muff, and malian had no club structure before 1992. Donegals victory in 1992 launched a number of new clubs in county  

[Goats Do Shave]

Armagh
As for Loughall although a Prtestant Village I no of at least two Catholics living on the out skirts of loughall who play for the Grange.

NAME & SHAME!!! 

[Ethan Edwards]

Max would there be any possibly of getting a team out of Tamlaght o Crilley  

[Maximus Marillius]

Nathan have you ever seen the film call Brigadoon, well thats Tamlaght O crilley reminds me of....a unionists dominated little hole trapped in time.

[SouthArmaghBandit]

Alot of the towns in inishowen movile, muff, and malian had no club structure before 1992. Donegals victory in 1992 launched a number of new clubs in county 

Would that be St Bridget's, Muff. The team mentioned in the thread on the old Board about unusual names?

[laughinpaddy]

Brownlow, Gilford, Tandragee and Scarva are strickly loyalist/Unionist Areas!

Brownlow is not! Eire Og play in Brownlow.

Then please explain why a police escort was called for a team wearing hoops so that they could be escorted of a soocer field after shoots were fired into the air from a neighbouring housing estate.  with chants of U.U.U.V.F!! still ringing in some of the cubs ears while they boarded their bus

[Guillem2]

Antrim
Ballycarry - St Endas or Larne
Ballyclare - St Endas
Ballynure - St Endas
Bushmills - interest in the village
Carrickfergus - no idea. It has a big population so there must be some GAA members.
Carnlough - Shane O'Neill's, Glenarm
Dervock - no interest
East Belfast - there used to be clubs in East Belfast. Sean Martin's and Ballyhackamore Harps come to mind. They probably play for St Malachy's or Bredagh now.
Mosside - no interest
Newtownabbey - St Endas
Toomebridge - Cargin
Whitehead - Larne maybe? No idea really.

Is there a club in Rathfriland? That would be a fair sized town.

[snatter]

Down contingent

re

Darragh Cross serving Ballygowan, Crossgar and Saintfield

Surely Crossgar is big enough and has enough non-unionists to field a team of its own?
There was post All Ireland talk in 1991 about setting up a new club there, but Darragh Cross objected.
Have Darragh Cross had much success in getting the youth of Crossgar to play GAA in the intervening 15 years?
I wonder if more Crossgar people would play GAA if there was a club in the town, and not a village a fair bit from it?

[SouthArmaghBandit]

Then please explain why a police escort was called for a team wearing hoops so that they could be escorted of a soocer field after shoots were fired into the air from a neighbouring housing estate.  with chants of U.U.U.V.F!! still ringing in some of the cubs ears while they boarded their bus

That would have been the Parkmore Estate which is in Mandeville near Brownlow. Bad spot. The Brownlow estates such as Ardowen, Enniskeen, Westacres & Drumellan are mainly nationalist.

[Bogball XV]

BTW Portrush is not in Derry, it's Antrim and by jaysus they're welcome to it!!

[jpmac]

I would have thought most people in Crossgar would play for Teconnaught!

East Belfast would probably be served by Bredagh, St. Pauls Hollywood and to a lesser extent St. Malachy's. Don't Think Sean Martins exist anymore.
St. Pauls Hollywood have some potential catchment area although in Fairness hard work for them publising themselves in that kneck of the woods.

[nrico2006]

Between Strabane and Derry City you have Ballymagorry, Magheramason and Newbuildings.  No GAA in either, would be killed if you were seen wearing a top in the latter 2, maybe not so much in Ballymagorry.  What about Fivemiletown on Tyrone/Fermanagh border.  Lisbellaw have a hurling team in fermanagh, but do they have a football side.  Theres bound to be plenty of villages and small towns in fermanagh that have nothing too.  What about Castlecaulfield in Tyrone, or Granville?