| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born | 1987 (age 37–38) [1] | ||
| Occupation | Restaurant trade | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Doonbeg [2] | |||
| Inter-county(ies)* | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2007–2023 | Clare | 43 (9–140) | |
| *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of match played 25 June 2022. | |||
David Tubridy (born 1987) [1] is a Gaelic footballer. He plays senior football for Doonbeg and, formerly, the Clare county team.
Tubridy plays as a forward. [2] The Irish Independent has described him as "the floating butterfly lurking on the Clare '45". [3]
Tubridy grew up in Doonbeg, County Clare. He attended Clare inter-county training alongside his father Tommy (who remained involved with the team following his retirement from playing). [1] Tommy Tubridy played for Clare, until 1990. [2] The 1992 Munster SFC win came when David Tubridy was four years of age. [1] The jersey he wore while attending the Munster SFC final was passed around the plane the team used to fly from Shannon Airport to Dublin for the 1992 All-Ireland SFC semi-final. [1] The entire panel signed the jersey, which Tubridy retained as a memento. [1]
According to his father, "from nine months old he was following the ball". [1] From an early age he was encouraged to work on both his feet. [1]
He made his debut for Clare against Tipperary in the 2007 Tommy Murphy Cup. [2] Páidí Ó Sé was team manager. [1]
Tubridy became top scorer in National Football League history against Cork in May 2021, [4] his total score in the competition after this game (22–412, i.e. 478 points) causing him to overtake Mickey Kearins. [5] Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland celebrated by giving him lifetime membership of its golf club, at which Tubridy caddied when he was a boy (including for Hugh Grant and Gary Player). [1] Tubridy plays off six, according to the Irish Independent in 2022. [1]
Against Roscommon in the 2022 All-Ireland SFC he was used as a substitute after 15 years of featuring from the start of games; a problematic Achilles tendon contributed to this. [1]
He opened 2023 by confirming he had retired from inter-county football. [6]
Tubridy runs a football academy in Doonbeg. [1]
Around September/October 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19 from which he recovered, though he lost several kilograms of weight and could not eat for several days. [2] [7] His parents Tommy and Bridget had been away and, when Tommy became symptomatic after their return, both parents and son tested positive, with parents fearing the worst. [7]
Tubridy and his father are involved in the restaurant trade. [2] They run Tubridy's Bar & Restaurant. [1] [8] Visitors have included Ken Griffey Jr., Dan Marino, Ger Loughnane's 1990s All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners and Jim Gavin's 2010s All-Ireland SFC winners. [1]
| Team | Season | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Clare | 2007 | - | - | |||||||
| 2008 | 2 | 0-08 | - | 2 | 0-08 | |||||
| 2009 | 1 | 0-04 | 1 | 1-04 | 2 | 1-08 | ||||
| 2010 | 1 | 0-04 | 1 | 0-12 | 2 | 0-16 | ||||
| 2011 | 1 | 0-03 | 1 | 0-04 | 2 | 0-07 | ||||
| 2012 | 2 | 0-08 | 1 | 0-03 | 3 | 0-11 | ||||
| 2013 | 1 | 0-04 | 1 | 0-06 | 2 | 0-10 | ||||
| 2014 | 3 | 1-07 | 2 | 0-08 | 5 | 1-15 | ||||
| 2015 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-05 | 1 | 0-05 | ||||
| 2016 | 2 | 0-10 | 4 | 2-10 | 6 | 2-20 | ||||
| 2017 | 2 | 1-07 | 2 | 0-04 | 4 | 1-11 | ||||
| 2018 | 2 | 0-05 | 2 | 1-03 | 4 | 1-08 | ||||
| 2019 | 1 | 0-03 | 3 | 1-13 | 4 | 1-16 | ||||
| 2020 | 1 | 0-00 | - | 1 | 0-00 | |||||
| 2021 | 1 | 1-01 | - | 1 | 1-01 | |||||
| 2022 | 1 | 1-01 | 3 | 0-03 | 4 | 1-04 | ||||
| Total | 21 | 4-65 | 22 | 5-75 | 43 | 9-140 | ||||
David was just four when the county's dairy herd went on holidays in '92… For now the mission is to eke everything he can out of his 35-year-old frame.