Lavey won Club of the Year at the 1990 Ulster GAA Writers' Association Awards.

The team wore green and gold jerseys with white collars, like Kerry.

O'Connor was also a talented player and played for and captained the Derry Senior side.

In 1928 O'Connor emigrated to America for a few years, his departure led to the folding of Knockloughrim Erin's Own.

In 1933 under the guidance of Mick Crilly and others the club were officially reorganised as Erin's Own GAC Lavey and the pitch moved to the townland of Gulladuff.

Lavey thought they had won their first Derry Senior Football Championship in 1937, when they defeated Newbridge by a point at Magherafelt.

In 1947 Lavey schoolteacher Master John Fay originally from County Tyrone, managed Derry to their first ever National League success.

In 1977 after a gap of 23 years seen the side win their fourth Derry Senior Football Championship, beating Ballinderry in the final.

The team was helped by a few playing members they had from "traditional hurling counties" such as Tipperary and Galway.