• Home
• First Team
  • Latest News
  • Fixtures & Results
  • League Table
  • Goalscoring Charts
  • Player Profiles
  • Coaching Staff
• Reserve Team
  • Latest News
  • Fixtures & Results
  • League Table
  • Goalscoring Charts
  • Player Profiles
  • Coaching Staff
• Youth Teams
  • Latest News
  • u15s Fixtures & Results
  • u15s League Table
  • u15s Player Profiles
  • Goalscoring Charts
• The Club
  • Club Events
  • Trophy Cabinet
  • General Information
  • Committee
  • Club History
  • Merchandise
  • Club Sponsors
  • Sponsor/Advertise
  • Lotto
  • Galleries
• Contact Us

Draperstown Celtic 2-4 Larne Tech OB

The Irish Cup adventure ends for another season as DC crash out at home to Larne Tech OB’s. Costly defensive errors prove to be the difference between the sides on a breezy day at Cahore Playing fields.

Full match report to follow.

Team:

Kevin Leonard, Darren McKillon, Stephen McKee, Ryan Brown, Conor McDevitt, Raymond Caulfield, Eamon Burns, Eamon Murray, Cathal Donnelly, Kevin Ward, Chris McGarrigle.

Subs: Declan Dougan, John Higgins

Keady Celtic 3-1 Draperstown Reserves

The reserves travelled to Keady Celtic for their Irish Junior cup game, and you guessed it, the referee didn’t show!!. However they did play a match against their opponents and lost 3-1. However there has to be a doubt if the result will stand, what with a non officially appointed ref and no match card. We wait to see what the I.F.A. in their wisdom decide to do for both games.

Draperstown Celtic 5-0 Roe Valley

This pharmacy supplies League Cup encounter at Cahore road on Saturday resulted in an emphatic win for the home side with all five goals coming in a pulsating second half. Celtic dominated the entire game with many fine individual performances all over the field and it was the manner in which several of the goals were scored which was the main talking point.

Draperstown opened brightly with Burns and Murray coming close before what seemed a clear cut penalty was not given when Murray was bundled off the ball by Clancey of Roe Valley. Good link up play by Celtic was much in evidence with Ward, Caulfield and Donnelly all creating problems for the hard working visitor’s defence.

Play then became rather scrappy for a period with the referee brandishing several yellow cards which disrupted Celtic’s earlier free flowing football. The home defence was able to deal very ably with what attacks Roe Valley were able to muster, indeed their first shot came on 40 minutes which was dragged wide from the edge of the box.

The second half began as did the first with Celtic in control. Their first goal came as a result of a corner on 54 minutes. Donnelly’s centre was met by Ryan Brown whose powerful header was only parried by goalkeeper Ewing and Eamon Murray lashed home form six yards. Their second came five minutes later with Cathal Donnelly again being the provider when, having beaten the full back, crossed for Eamon Burns to side foot home from close range. Roe Valley had little to offer at this stage and more Celtic goals looked likely and the next three were all finishes of the highest quality. Firstly Chris McGarrigle stormed through the static Roe Valley defence and curled a delightful ball past the despairing dive of Ewing to put Celtic three up after 68 minutes.

Substitute Sean Maguire got in on the act when he robbed Clancey 25 yards from goal and spotting Ewing off his line, lobbed the ball into net with a high degree of skill, typical of what this very bright prospect is capable of. The final goal again came from McGarrigle who waltzed past Davy King and lobbed the advancing keeper from the edge of the box to seal a wonderful goal scoring display from himself and also round off a very good team effort from Celtic, especially in the second half.

What will please manager Laurence O’Kane most will be the way in which his team took the chances which their good play created. Too many times over the last two seasons, it was Celtic’s inability to score when controlling games which has cost them dearly. Saturday’s performance perhaps showed that they are eventually beginning to put that part of their game right.

Team:

Kevin Leonard, Mark Murchan, Stephen McKee, Ryan Brown, Conor McDevitt, Raymond Caulfield, Eamon Burns, Eamon Murrsy, Cathal Donnelly, Kevin Ward, Chris McGarrigle.

Subs: Sean Maguire, Raymond Kennedy, Martin McGuigan

South Derry Grassroots Development Centre

The Irish Football Association established 16 Grassroots Development Centres throughout the province in the spring of this year. The purpose of these centres is to develop the sport of Association Football at grassroots level across Northern Ireland.

One of the centres is to be based in the South Derry area and as a result, Draperstown Celtic FC , Magherafelt Sky Blues FC and Moyola Park FC have joined forces to ensure that the young people of South Derry would not lose the many benefits which the Grassroots Centre could bring to the area. Following discussions with Trevor Erskine, one of the IFA’s Grassroots Development Officers, the three clubs have agreed to join together in forming the South Derry Grassroots Development Centre.

By the end of September the IFA will have appointed a Grassroots Development Officer to replace Philip Melville who has transferred to Castlereagh Grassroots Development Centre and the young people of the area will be in a position to benefit from his/her input in a number of different ways. As part of the Irish Football Association’s Grassroots Development Plan, Grassroots Development Officers are tasked with delivering to the local community in the following distinctive ways:

• Curriculum based development coaching programmes
• Mini Soccer and Mini Soccer Centres
• Holiday Football Courses
• Coach Education
• Building Capacities of Volunteers and Administrators
• National and Regional Football Festivals / Leagues
• Disability Football Development
• Development of Girls / Women’s Football
• Community Relations and Social Inclusion
• Teacher Training and Professional Development
• Grassroots Facility Development
• Performance Indicators – Monitoring / Review / Innovation

Draperstown Celtic, Magherafelt Sky Blues and Moyola Park are now backing the South Derry Grassroots Development Centre to ensure that the young people of South Derry do not miss the opportunity to receive quality football coaching from IFA approved coaches.

DC host annual golf day

DC’s annual golf day is to be held on Sunday September 17th at the Ronan Valley golf course, Magherafelt. As opposed to DC’s Golf Classic day which attracts a field of those who claim to be able to play the game, this day will also feature some of those among us that are less skilled in this particular sport.

However, the idea is to have a good morning’s entertainment coinciding with walking off the previous evening’s possible over indulgence with teeing off beginning at 10:30.

There will be a presentation and refreshments afterwards in the Market Inn back in Draperstown which is due to begin at 2:00.

Entrance fee is £10 and you simply come along and pay on the day. Everyone is welcome

Reserves Irish Junior/City Cup draws announced

The draws for this season’s Irish Junior and City Cup have been made with Draperstown Reserves facing relatively unknown opposition away and home respectively.

In the Irish Junior Cup* the reserves make the long trip to Keady in County Armagh to face the unkown quantity that is Keady Celtic, the tie to be played on the 16th September. View the full draw on the Irish FA website.

In the City Cup the reserves take on City Colts from the North West Junior 2nd Division, the game being scheduled for the 7th October.

* In the event of any match resulting in a draw, extra-time of 10 minutes each way shall be played. Should the score be equal at the end of this period of extra-time the tie will be decided by the taking of kicks from the penalty mark in accordance with the conditions approved by the International FA Board.

Next First Team Fixture