Above – The Dunloy team who bridged an 89 year gap by winning the 2025 Senior Football Championship were honoured at the club’s annual dinner in the Tullyglass Hotel.

Dunloy Cuchullains held their annual dinner dance at the Tullyglass Hotel last night with Thomas Niblock the host for the evening.

In a night with a twist, Thomas did a number of interviews with those involved in the club while performing podcast style chats with those associated with the clubs success in 2025.  Gabriel McTaggart and Éobha McAllister were first up under the microphones and cameras, Gabriel standing in for Eamon Smyth who was unable to attend the event.  Keelan Molloy and Kevin McQuillan were up next – Kevin making the most of his time with the microphone and taking centre stage.

Senior football Captain Seaan Elliott was accompanied with his grandfather Don Maguire for the last podcast of the evening with Don declaring that despite being in the village 58 years, he classes himself as a ‘blow in’ and how he never misses a training session thanks to ‘a hole in the hedge’.

A brilliant evening was rounded off with a montage of clips of both video and photographs from the year, Ger Dixon’s song ‘Dunloy’ providing the music for the video.

A lovely way to round off a special evening as the Cuchullains remembered the journey they have been on to end an 89 year drought to bring the senior football championship back to Pearse Park.

Dunloy held a raffle on the evening with the prizes being a signed shirt by the senior footballers (won by the McMahon Family) and the football used in the county final signed by the team (won by Oisin McCamphill).

Many thanks to the Cuchullains who made a presentation to The Saffron Gael through Brendan McTaggart.  The support of clubs up and down the county is greatly appreciated.

County chairman Seamus McMullan is interviewed by Thomas Niblock.