Slaughtneil are into the All-Ireland Club Football Final and an entire community is celebrating. An entire county has their back.
The Derry and Ulster champions defeated St Vincent’s 012 to 0-10 this afternoon as Chrissy McKaigue, Patsy Bradley & co. delivered when it mattered.
Unreal catchhttps://t.co/JmZespcPjk
— GAA JOE (@GAA__JOE) February 11, 2017
The rural townland on the side of the mountain is made up of just over 300 families, most of whom are GAA mad. Their second ever Derry championship only came in 2014.
Now all Mickey Moran’s men have to do is do it all over again against Kerry’s Dr Croke’s on March 17.
Croke Park will be teaming with GAA fans on All-Ireland club finals day but it will be interesting to see what happens if the hurlers of Slaughtneil, who themselves have an upcoming semi, make it.
This really was something specialhttps://t.co/I8gI7eArUP #TheToughest
— GAA JOE (@GAA__JOE) February 11, 2017
It is no surprise that Derry GAA, and its Twitter account, is getting behind Slaughtneil’s march to Croker – the county has only produced three previous winners since 1970/71.
Soon after the final whistle, Derry GAA tweeted out this overhead shot of the Slaughtneil and St Vincent’s townlands:
Small is Beautiful. #TheToughest pic.twitter.com/zeXc7B0CyC
— Derry GAA (@Doiregaa) February 11, 2017
The tweet did not go down at all well with former Oliver Plunketts club-man and Dublin footballer Alan Brogan, who responded:
Little ungracious from the Derry GAA official twitter account. Maybe just enjoy the victory and dont worry about the size of Marino. https://t.co/tYtB37a8oX
— Alan Brogan (@alanbrogan13) February 11, 2017
While Brogan was none too impressed at the county stresses the differences between both communities, spare a thought for SportsJOE GAA editor Colm Parkinson, who found this tweeted shared endlessly after Slaughtneil and Dr Croke’s had marched on:
https://twitter.com/Woolberto/status/802880754875305984
Can’t win ’em all.
