Kickhams GAC Creggan
Founded:1924
County:Antrim
Colours:Green and gold
Grounds:Pairc Ciceam
Playing kits
Standard colours

Kickhams GAC Creggan, founded in 1924,[1] is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Creggan, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The club provides Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and ladies football for all age groups from under-10s to senior level.

Creggan host the annual Ulster U21 Club Football Tournament which runs from January to March and is contested by the nine Ulster county champions. The winners receive the Paddy McLarnon Cup.

Peadar Heffron

Peadar Heffron played both Gaelic football and hurling for the club and twice helped the club to the Antrim Intermediate Hurling Championship title. In an interview with the Sunday Independent, he stated that "his club turned their back on him as he announced plans to join the newly-formed PSNI in 2002." In 2010 Heffron was seriously injured, losing his right leg, when a dissident republican bomb was detonated under his car. Two club committee members who visited Heffron's parents while he was in a coma said "we are not here to represent the club, we are only here in a personal capacity?". The Club refused to comment.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Establishment of Kickhams GAC Creggan". Kickhams GAC Creggan. Kickhams GAC Creggan. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Peadar Heffron: Joe Brolly asks Creggan club `where is your courage?'". Irish News. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2023.


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