DERRY GAA: A NEW DECADE CUMANN CONTAE POBAL

www.derrygaa.ie A NEW WHERE HAVE WE COME FROM? DIRECTION OIDHREACHT ~ LEGACY A chairde, As a GAA we are relatively young, but our roots and tie to the land Since Club was formed in 2005, it has made and places in which we live go back many generations. 2015 an invaluable contribution to Derry GAA. •  Derry minor On the national stage our teams have made frequent forays to the During this time, Club Derry challenges that lie before us as footballers win the has gifted nearly £2 million to we enter a new decade. mountain top and the belief that we can so again remains. championship the GAA in our county. for the first time We hope to meet these No other organisation contributes as much seen our underage teams begin to progress since 2002 However, it is now much more together, to provide a safe, to local social and cultural capital as the in hurling and football. Ladies football and than simply a fundraising welcoming and engaging GAA does in Derry. But we face challenges. are vibrant and growing and are •  Derry Hurlers reach effort. It is a community. setting for our future Our population is increasingly urban and as a vital part of our social fabric as a county. the Christy Ring final generations to build on their an association we must resolve to address As the various associations move closer to a A community that has enabled unlimited talent and potential. this changing landscape. However, we must more integrated approach, Club Derry must •  Derry minor camogs us to secure the future of our not do so at the expense of sustaining and be there to support and reinforce win the Ulster title great sporting and cultural These are our most valuable growing our rural communities and clubs, those ideals. organisation in Derry: resources, and they must be and preserving our way of life. encouraged and protected at The next decade is a vital one in our history • It continues to back our all costs. Modernisation of our coaching structures in and it is incumbent on us all to do what we underage teams with a the previous decade, married to a renewed can to leave a story and lasting legacy for 2016 thriving environment for On behalf of the Derry GAA vigour and work ethic within our clubs has future generations. them to grow within. management committee • Derry minors qualify • It has helped us build some I would like to express our for the Ulster final and of the best facilities in the gratitude to Club Derry All- QF country, including new Chairperson Paul Lupari, his training pitches and fitness predecessors, Gerard O’Kane, • St Pat’s Maghera win centres. John Keenan, Pat McKaigue, the MacRory Cup Brian Og Mullan - and all • It provides our teams and those who have served on the WHY WE DO THIS coaches with constant • Slaughtneil win the Club Derry Committee - who fundamental support. volunteer their time to grow Ulster club football • Because . Because we believe that championship and • It continues to enhance this community and ensure we believe in community the county’s first ever the development of Irish fundraising efforts are run in the work that we do has a positive impact on the wellbeing and outlook language and Culture an efficient and successful Ulster hurling title through its support for Scór. manner. of our people, both young and old. • Because . We believe Along with a host of unseen Finally, a sincere thank you to we believe in Derry and its people contributions, Club Derry is all Club Derry members for that we can be better and that we can compete with any other GAA unit vital to what we are trying to their amazing support. Your in Ireland despite many inequalities that exist. achieve at club, county and generosity has helped bring community levels. Derry GAA to this stage in our county’s storied history, • Because we want to support our clubs and the elected As Chairperson of Derry GAA, and will continue to make officers of Derry GAA in providing solid financial footings, with I wish to ensure our bond a valuable contribution as with Club Derry strengthens we enter the 2020s: Derry’s increased coaching support for both this generation and the next. and flourishes. We share the defining decade. same hopes and fears and as • Because our players deserve our support. part of a vibrant GAA county, Stephen Barker we recognise the myriad Cathaoirleach, • Because if we don't, no-one else will. Coiste Chontae Dhoire

2 officialderrygaa @Doiregaa officialderrygaa www.derrygaa.ie 3 SOCIAL INCLUSION CUIMSIÚ SÓISIALTA 2017 • Derry minor footballers win the Ulster title and reach the All-Ireland final beating Dublin When Michael Cusack convened the first meeting en route of the ‘Gaelic Athletic Association for the Preservation and Cultivation of national Pastimes’ • Derry U21 footballers reach the Ulster final he could not have foreseen the community organisation that the GAA has now grown into. • Slaughtneil retain the Ulster club Our remit is huge and growing, provision will come at an extra football and hurling but so too our importance to cost. championships our people and community. These are challenges we now • Derry Ladies Likewise, in more recent times, need to face for: Footballers are when our own local visionaries narrowly defeated such as Johnny Burke and the • The growing number of in a replay of the original ‘Finance Committee’ teams which use the facility. All-Ireland Junior came together to gift the • As a real and meaningful Championship lands we know now as ‘An option for our schools and Abhainn Bheag’, they could third level games. not have foreseen the growth in use and expectation within • The growing numbers of our community. young girls and ladies now 2018 participating in our . • Derry minor footballers Owenbeg now boasts a 7,000 are narrowly defeating capacity modern stadium • The enhancement of in their fourth attended by over 100,000 the Derry GAA For ALL consecutive Ulster final people per year. The other programme. 53 acres provide facility for • 25 Year Anniversary of training and games for clubs, • The enhancement of match first All-Ireland schools and county alike, in all day experience for our SFC Win codes of Gaelic games. supporters and to adapt and adjust to the new realities of • Derry Minor Hurlers However, our facility can roads infrastructure in the win the Celtic be improved and needs to Owenbeg area. Challenge be improved to cope with the growing demand. Many • Derry U20 footballers of our playing surfaces are Ar scáth a chéile a win the Ulster title now in need of upgrade. In for the first time the formation of their latest mhaireann na daoine since 1997 strategic plan Derry GAA has estimated that a cost of £300k • St Mary’s is needed to enhance the win a first ever surfaces in the first instance. People live in each MacRory Cup Floodlighting and extra other’s shadows

4 officialderrygaa @Doiregaa officialderrygaa www.derrygaa.ie 5 Shops £7,667 1% THE STATE OF PLAY Other £19,948 Staging Games Shops 2% £125,866 £6,427 Other Income Grounds 10% £172,916 0% Gate Receipts £219,858 £163,064 13% 17% 13%

2019 2019 Derry GAA National League Derry GAA Income £55,228 Expenditure £1,330,359 13% £1,225,374

Coaching and Games £272,133 22% Team Expenses Commerical Income £561,515 £254,200 46% 10% Associated Bodies £490,125 37% Administration Fundraising £77,138 £131,605 Financial Expenses 6% £1,957 10% 0%

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6 officialderrygaa @Doiregaa officialderrygaa www.derrygaa.ie 7 2019 GROWING OAKS CELEBRATE THE PAST • Derry Minor Hurlers Club Derry was proud to take the lead on ‘The Men retain the Celtic Development, in the context of young players, has Who Won Maguire’ - inspired by Derry’s first All-Ireland Challenge been a much discussed topic in recent years. senior football title in 1993, the 25th anniversary of • Slaughtneil win their In Club Derry we believe In 2019, Club Derry in which was celebrated with a special gala evening third Ulster hurling title that is is our duty to ensure conjunction with Derry in November of 2018. in four years that player pathways are GAA, held a Careers Expo supported for all players to at Owenbeg, putting young The evening was multi-media driven and The campaign developed a reach beyond • Slaughtneil camogs achieve their potential. Not players in contact with local interactive in nature, with players from the sport - becoming a celebration of the achieve three-in-a-row every player can be a senior employers. We believe that winning panel invited to experience live culture and tradition of county Derry - with All-Ireland titles intercounty player. However, local businesses and Derry the recollections and thoughts of former the reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem, • Cathair Dhoire enter through exposure to high GAA can work in partnership opponents, and to share their reactions and ‘Markings’, by the players of 1993. levels of coaching, nutrition for the benefit of our young memories of the championship campaign. ‘The Men Who Won Maguire’ amassed the MacRory Cup advice and strength and people who wish to remain almost half a million combined video views conditioning players are given living and working in a strong Collected over a series of months with the across social media and was a fitting tribute the opportunity to develop local economy. co-operation of the players, new digital to an historic achievement, presented for personally for the benefit of material was edited and broken down into a new and digital age twenty-five years 2020 their clubs and county. It is Club Derry supports Derry bitesize chunks, before being strategically on from Derry GAA’s greatest sporting not an ‘either, or’ situation and GAA’s vision of development published. The story of each game along achievement. • Over 3000 children never will be. of people, not just as players, the campaign was told with humour, pride are now coached but in a more holistic and and poignancy with the memory of the Club Derry exists not only as a fundraising across 60 primary complete way. late Eamon Coleman a constant theme body, but a cultural one which seeks to schools. throughout. celebrate and preserve the rich hertigage of Gaelic games in our county. • A new strategic plan seeks to bolster second level support and increase support for club-based coaching • With Club Derry’s support, the latest Working on your behalf are: phase of Owenbeg becomes debt free in Paul Lupari 07841 825221 summer 2020. But the Francis McCloskey 07803 600318 work goes on... Paul Birt 07711 206791 Bernie Mullan 07802 844737 Miceál Ahern Jnr 07841 586261 Joe McGinnis 028 71810 106 Tommy Donnelly 07871 746329 Paddy McIvor 07752 368784 Brian Óg Mullan 07709 696005 “When History says, don’t hope, On Gerry Loughrey 07740 877276 this side of the grave. But then, once Emma Loughrey 07808 772845 in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Siobhan Lynch 077156 19912 Of justice can rise up, And hope and Ciaran Doherty 07879 470621 history rhyme” Seamus Heaney OUR PEOPLE Adrian Burns 07840 095872

8 officialderrygaa @Doiregaa officialderrygaa www.derrygaa.ie 9 THIS FORM INSTRUCTS YOUR BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY TO MAKE PAYMENTS DIRECT FROM YOUR ACCOUNT. CLUB PLEASE COMPLETE ALL THE FORM: DERRY (Banks and Building Societies may refuse to make such payments CUMANN DHOIRE AWAKEN from some types of accounts) STANDING ORDER

THE FUTURE 1. I wish to enrol as a Club Derry 7.Member Signature: 2. Name & postal address of your Bank/ MOL AN ÓIGE AGUS TIOCFAIDH SÍ Building Society:

! Date:

Our young people are our future. Over the past five years they have Print Name: begun to grow and flourish as our clubs and county begin to rise.

Support them. Shape the Future. Join Club Derry. Address: 3. Name(s) of Account Holder(s) • Ulster Minor Football Finalists 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (Winners ‘15 ‘17)

4. Account Number: • St Mary’s Magherafelt - MacRory Cup Winners 2017 Postcode:

(Finalists 2018) Tel No: • St Pat’s Maghera - MacRory Cup Winners 2016 5. Branch Sort Code: •  Mobile: Ulster U20 Football Champions Champions in 2018. Finalists 2017 and 2019. 6. Please pay: Email:

• Celtic Challenge All-Ireland Hurling Club Derry Winners 2018, 2019 Account Number: 84411340 9. I am a UK taxpayer. I would like income Sort Code: 90-49-82 tax to be reclaimed on my donation Bank of Ireland, 11 Market Street, •  Champions 2017 under the Gift Aid scheme. Ulster U21 Hurling Magherafelt BT45 6EE. Yes No • All Ireland B U21 Hurling Finalists 2017 The sum of £ • St Paul’s Ulster Minor Football Finalists- Kilrea 2016, Ballinascreen 10. Please make immediate payment if the 2017, Bellaghy* 2018, Lavey* 2019 (*winners) first payment date is missed. Annually £1,000/£500

Please tick •  Winners - Kevin Lynchs (2018, 2019), Ulster Minor Hurling Club Quarterly £250/£125 Slaughtneil 2015 Please send the completed form to: Monthly £83.33/£41.67 • Derry Ladies U14 Footballers - All-Ireland ‘B’ Finalists 2019 Club Derry Committee 146 Ringsend Road • St Pat’s Maghera Senior ‘A’ Camogie Ulster Winners 2020 from the account detailed on this , BT49 OQN instruction commencing on (A snapshot of underage success at provincial and national level since 2015) DO NOT SEND THIS FORM DIRECT TO YOUR BANK OR BUILDING SOCIETY Club Derry is accepted as a charity by HM Revenue & Customs: HMRC Charity Reference No: XT 5684 “A rising tide lifts all the boats” John Fitzgerald Kennedy, June 1963 For Offical Use Only Bank Ref:

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10 officialderrygaa @Doiregaa officialderrygaa “Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.” SEAMUS HEANEY

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