Michael McNamara (footballer)

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Michael McNamara
Personal information
Sport Gaelic Football
Position Centre back
Born Sligo
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
2007-
Sligo
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 1
NFL 1

Michael McNamara is an Irish Gaelic footballer. [1] He currently plays for the Sligo county team. In his first year with it, the team won the Connacht Championship for the first time since 1975 after beating Galway. A former member of the Arcadia Broncos lacrosse team, McNamara is said to bring the aggressiveness of a lacrosse defender to the pitch.

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References

  1. "Ravenous Sligo end long final famine". Irish Independent . 9 July 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2011.