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Who We Are
Cumann Naomh Gall is one of the premier GAA clubs in county Antrim with the largest membership. The club participates in Gaelic football, hurling, handball, ladies football and Scór competitions, all from underage level to senior level.
Senior Football
Founded 100 years ago Naomh Gall, while never managing to capture a senior championship, was initially a renowned hurling club. Since the fifties there has been a decline in the strength of hurling, although every now and then there have been rays of light to indicate a return to the top is not far away. Since the seventies out footballers have established the club as one of the county's premier clubs if not thee premier club. Each of the last four decades has seen numerous senior county championship titles, three Ulster title and near misses in Ulster. For the last four seasons we have been county champions, managed first by Mickey Culbert, the present Antrim managers, and then by John Rafferty, an ex-Naomh Gall player although an Armagh native and past Armagh senior captain. In 2006 we won another Ulster championship and reached the All-Ireland final where we lost to Salthill of Galway. However in our centenary year we won Ulster again and this time made no mistake by bringing an All-Ireland senior club title to Milltown.
Juvenille
At underage level the work of members has not only brought success year after year but has been admired, recognised and copied and is seen as the foundation of our senior teams.
Ladies
Ladies football is new to Naomh Gall but in the few short years it has been going, it has gone from strength to strength and the senior team is on the threshold of the highest county success. The ladies football has definitely added a greater dimension to the club and reinforced the family basis to it.
Handball
The club handballers have won county and Ulster titles this year at different levels and have cemented their status as a premier senior team.
Traditional Music
Naomh Gall represented Antrim as county champions in Scór in four categories - an outstanding achievement - in the Ulster semi-final and will aim to be Ulster champions next year.
Naomh Gall is one active club indeed and through hard work and endeavour over the years by the committee and members we have established facilities fit for a premier county club and have plans for further and upgrading development. We have two large and first class playing fields and changing facilities, and club rooms with a large restaurant and large function room.
Where We Are
The clubrooms and pitches of Naomh Gall are to be found in the heart of west Belfast, off the Falls Road down a little "country type" lane called Milltown Row. Our pitches and clubrooms, which can be seen from the end of the M1 motorway coming into Belfast, are situated in a major conservation area known as the "Bog Meadows".
Naomh Gall is surrounded by the historic Milltown Cemetery, the City Cemetery and Falls Park on the other side of the Falls Road.
Clubrooms
We provide nightly entertainment for members and friends in our lounge and function room during the week. The entertainment varies from big name bands to easy listening solo singers to quizzes and on Monday nights see the biggest traditional music session in Antrim with players of fiddle, flute, whistle, harp, guitar and banjo. Over twenty or maybe over thirty musicians can be heard playing the best Irish music every week.
Naomh Gall is a big club, but not too big to realise we are only a part of the Gaelic Athlete Association and while we compete to win we will always offer a warm welcome to other GAA clubs and members and non-members alike.
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Our Club
