Paddy McConigley

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Paddy McConigley
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Occupation Carpenter [1]
Piscicultural worker [1]
Club(s)
YearsClub
 Gaeil Fhánada
Tír Chonaill Gaels
Railyard
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
200?–200?
200?–2007
 London
Donegal
Inter-county titles
NFL 1

Paddy McConigley is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Donegal county team and, before that, the London county team. [2] He currently plays for The Railyard Football Club in Kilkenny, where he has won two Kilkenny Senior Football Championship titles, in 2015 and 2016.

Contents

He is originally from Fanad. [1]

Playing career

Club

McConigley's club Gaeil Fhánada lost the 2006 Donegal Intermediate Football Championship final to Cloich Cheann Fhaola after two replays. [1] However, the club won the Division 2 title with a win against Seán Mac Cumhaills. [1]

While in London, McConigley played for Tír Chonaill Gaels. He marked Michael Donnellan in an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship quarter-final, losing by around four points. [1]

After his inter-county career ended, McConigley continued to play with his club and won a Donegal Intermediate Football Championship in 2009. [3] He won an All-Ireland Gaeltacht title in 2012. [3]

He played club football in Donegal until the conclusion of the 2014 season, then he and his family relocated to Kilkenny and he began playing for Railyard. [3]

Inter-county

McConigley captained the Donegal minor team and played for three years with the under-21 team, captaining them for two of those. [1] He first featured at senior level under the management of Mickey Moran. [1] However, the local fish farm did not provide with work continually throughout the year so he moved to London, England. [1] While there he played for the London county team. London played Donegal in 2006 and then Donegal manager Brian McIver asked McConigley if he would be returning to Ireland. [1] He did. [1] After impressing with Gaeil Fhánada (see above), McConigley was invited for a trial with the county team and was included on the panel. [1] He did not start the opening game of the 2007 National Football League (away to Cork at Páirc Uí Rinn) but came on as a substitute in the second game (at home against Mayo in Ballybofey). [1] He held onto his place in the team after this. [1] With Barry Dunnion occupying the other wing, McConigley had to see off competition from future All-Ireland winners Eamon McGee, Frank McGlynn and Anthony Thompson. [1] He started at right half-back in the NFL semi-final against Kildare at Croke Park but came off injured after 35 minutes. [1] McConigley also started in the final, again against Mayo. [4] He was a late inclusion for that game, instead of Thomas Donoghue. [1] Eamon McGee came as a substitute for McConigley. [1] Months later, while on a team bonding trip in Milford, McConigley was shot in the eye and blinded. His vision never recovered and he never played for Donegal again. [5] [6] The incident occurred after the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifier against Westmeath and before the qualifier against Monaghan [1] "It probably was a defining monent in my career to be honest", he said later. [1]

Personal life

McConigley is married to Siobhan. [1] He has one son. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Ferry, Ryan (23 April 2020). "McConigley reflects on 2007 National League success". Donegal News . pp. 52–3.
  2. ↑ Lawlor, Damian (18 November 2007). "McConigley determined to revive Donegal career". Irish Independent . Retrieved 18 November 2007.
  3. 1 2 3 Forker, Mark (29 June 2015). "Former Donegal GAA star helps Kilkenny footballers win British junior title" . Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  4. ↑ "Donegal achieve historic win — First national league title comes to county after victory over Mayo". Donegal Times. 25 April 2007. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2007.
  5. ↑ "McConigley fails to recover sight in one eye". Hogan Stand . 13 November 2007. Retrieved 13 November 2007.
  6. 1 2 Fogarty, John (25 May 2013). "Simple pleasures sustain McConigley". Irish Examiner . Retrieved 25 May 2013.
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