Aghaloo O'Neills
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Aghaloo O'Neills is a Gaelic Athletic Association
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club. The club is based in Aughnacloy
Aughnacloy
Aughnacloy, sometimes spelt Auchnacloy , is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Close to the border with County Monaghan, the village is about southwest of Dungannon, and southeast of Ballygawley. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 801....

 and Caledon
Caledon, County Tyrone
Caledon , historically known as Kinnaird , is a small village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is in the Clogher Valley on the banks of the River Blackwater, 7 miles from Armagh. It lies in the southeast of Tyrone and near the borders of County Armagh and County Monaghan. In the...

 which encompasses the parish after which the club is named, Aghaloo, County Tyrone
County Tyrone
Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

.

The club concentrates on Gaelic football
Gaelic football
Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

, a Ladies Gaelic football club of the same name was also in existence during the 1990s.

The senior team in 2009 won Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and were defeated in the final of the Tyrone Junior Football Championship
Tyrone Junior Football Championship
The Tyrone Junior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the 18 Tyrone clubs competing in Division 3 of the Tyrone All-County Football league.The winners of the Tyrone Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster Junior Club...

 by local rivals Augher St. Mac Cartans in 2008. In 2010 the club will compete in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and the Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship
Tyrone Intermediate Football Championship
The Tyrone Intermediate Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the 16 Tyrone clubs competing in Division 2 of the Tyrone All-County Football league.The winners of the Tyrone Championship qualify to represent their county in the Ulster...



Aghaloo have recently started to redevelop their training pitch and are actively seeking to raise funds for this project, which is generously being part-funded by InvestNI. The club are also holding a gala ball in the Hillgrove Hotel to mark its 40th anniversary.

To check how the club is faring this year visit http://www.tyronegaa.ie/club/football/results/ACL3/fix.jsp?id=NzA=
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