 Having slipped down to the Junior ranks, in 1977 Drum won the Derry Junior Football Championship, Division 3 of the League and the Neil Carlin Cup.In 1974 Drum reached the first of their four Derry Intermediate Football Championship finals, losing out to Glack.Greenlough denied them in the 1976 decider, Glen in 1983 and Moneymore in 1984.