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Newtownstewart St. Eugene ’s G.A.C
Present club established in 1945. Previous clubs in existence in 1907-08, 1926-29, 1932-34. Camogie team, St. Attracta’s in existence in 1930’s.
Newtownstewart’s first Gaelic Football club came into existence at a meeting held on Sunday 24th March 1907, at which Patrick McNamee presided. At this time the Newtownstewart United team enjoyed a high reputation in the world of association football and it appears that a number of their players left the club, allegedly because of a dispute over elections, to join the new G.A.A club.
Finbar McConnell represented the club between the posts in the Tyrone senior team and collected his first Ulster Championship winners medal but Tyrone narrowly lost the 1995 All Ireland Final to Dublin. He also played as goal-keeper on Ulster’s Railway Cup team, so 1995 saw Finbar pick up an Ulster Championship medal, a Tyrone Junior Championship medal and a Railway Cup medal.
In 1998 Pascal McConnell followed in his older brother Finbar’s footsteps when he represented the club between the posts in the Tyrone Minor team. He picked up an Ulster Championship winners medal that year and an All Ireland winners medal. This was the second All Ireland medal to enter the McConnell household as brother Brian had won an U-21 All Ireland medal in 1992.Finbar McConnell collected his second Ulster Championship medal in 1996 as Tyrone retained their crown.
In 2000 and 2001, Pascal McConnell added to his medal haul when he was between the posts in the U-21 team that won the Ulster and All-Ireland titles.
In 2001, Finbar McConnell became the first Tyrone player to win four Ulster Senior Championship medals – 1989, 1995, 1996 and 2001.
Pascal McConnell was a member of the Tyrone team that won the historic first All Ireland senior title in 2003 and played in goals when Tyrone won their second All Ireland in 2005.