Strabane Sigersons GAC

Strabane Sigersons is a Gaelic Athletic Association club. The club is based in the town of Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.The club concentrates on Gaelic football activities while a club called Sigersons Ladies GFC provides for Ladies Gaelic football. Another club in the town is Shamrocks, which fields teams for the games of Hurling and Camogie.The senior team in 2014 will compete in Division 1 of the Tyrone All-County Football League and will play in the Tyrone Senior Football Championship.A Brief History of the GAA in Strabane1902. First G.A.A. club formed in Strabane.1904. Strabane man Michael O'Nolan elected first chairman of the Tyrone County Board; he was also chairman of the Ulster Council during the period 1904-1907. O'Nolan's son Brian otherwise known as Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen went on to achieve international acclaim as a writer.1904-05. Strabane Lámh Dhearg lost to Coalisland Na Fianna in the first ever Tyrone Senior football championship final. The same year Strabane won the first ever Tyrone Senior Hurling championship title defeating Dungannon Emmett's.1905-06. Strabane Fág-a-Bealach won the Tyrone Senior football championship title defeating Donaghmore Eire Óg’s in the final.1911. George Sigerson, after whom the present day club is named in his honour, presented the Sigerson Cup for competition between the universities of Ireland. Dr Sigerson was then a professor at U.C.D. He was born at Holyhill on the outskirts of Strabane in 1836 and died in 1925.