Conleith Gilligan

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Conleith Gilligan
Ulster League final 2008 - Conleith Gilligan Motm cropped.jpg
Personal information
Irish name Conláed Mac Giollagáin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Right corner forward
Born (1979-12-17) 17 December 1979 (age 43)
Derry, Northern Ireland
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Nickname Deets
Occupation Business Development Manager [1]
Club(s)
YearsClub
1996–
 Ballinderry Shamrocks
Club titles
Derry titles 7
Ulster titles 2
All-Ireland Titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1999–2012 [2]
Derry
Inter-county titles
NFL 2

Conleith "Deets" Gilligan (born 17 December 1979) [1] is a Gaelic footballer who played for the Derry county team, with whom he won two National League titles.

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Gilligan plays his club football for Ballinderry Shamrocks. He was instrumental in helping Ballinderry win the 2002 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and he has also won four Derry Championships and an Ulster Senior Club Football Championship with the club.

Gilligan usually plays as a playmaker in the forward line and his vision and ability to pick out pin-point passes is well renowned. [3]

Playing career

Inter-county

Gilligan was a late addition to the Derry panel that won the 2000 National League. He joined the panel after the NFL final against Meath, which finished a draw [4] and came on as a substitute in the final replay. [5]

He was instrumental in the 2008 National League, which Derry won, defeating Kerry in the final. [6] [7]

He announced his retirement from inter-county football in November 2012. [8]

Club

Gilligan won his first Derry Senior Football Championship in 2001 [1] and Ballinderry went on to win that year's Ulster Senior Club Football Championship, and the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship the following March. [1] He has won further Derry Championship medals with the club in 2002, [1] 2006 [1] (as captain) and 2008. He has also won seven Derry Senior League medals with the club (1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008).[ citation needed ]

Honours

Inter-county

Club

Individual

Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Derry player profiles 2008". Official Derry GAA website. 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
  2. ↑ Duggan, Keith (26 April 2008). "Perfectly positioned to deliver for Derry". The Irish Times . Retrieved 9 December 2008.
  3. ↑ "Shamrocks and Emmett's set for epic tussle". Derry Journal. 2 September 2006. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
  4. ↑ Heaney, Paddy (29 April 2008). "Derry ace Conleith drunk on success". The Irish News . Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  5. ↑ "Derry Football Roll Of Honour". Official Derry GAA website. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
  6. ↑ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 30 April 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  7. ↑ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report - Derry GAA website". Derry GAA website. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
  8. ↑ "Derry forward Conleth Gilligan calls time on 13-year inter-county career". RTÉ. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "Derry line-ups 2005". Derry GAA website. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
Gaelic games
Preceded by
Joe Cassidy
(Bellaghy)
 Derry Senior Football Championship
winning captain
2006		Succeeded by
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