Pauric McShea

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Pauric McShea
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full-back
Club(s)
YearsClub
19??–19??
Aodh Ruadh
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
196?–19??
Donegal
Ulster titles 2

Pauric McShea is an Irish Gaelic football pundit [1] and former player for Aodh Ruadh and the Donegal county team. He works as a match analyst for Ocean FM. [2] [3] [4] [5] He also writes a weekly column, "McShea's Say", for the Donegal Post . [6] [7]

He played at full-back. [8]

He had a high-scoring game against Armagh in the 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.[ citation needed ]

He was part of the final team as Donegal won the 1972 Ulster Senior Football Championship. [9] Then he captained Donegal to the 1974 Ulster Senior Football Championship. [1] [10]

His mother is from County Tyrone. [11]

Close to Brian McEniff, McShea was part of the backroom team in 1992. [11] [12] He was seen on TV on his walkie-talkie keeping in touch with the Donegal selectors during the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. [13] McShea was also winning coach of the 1996 Donegal Senior Football Championship. [12] He sought to succeed P. J. McGowan as Donegal manager in 1997 but withdrew and Declan Bonner became manager. [14]

In May 2012, the Irish Independent named him in its selection of Donegal's "greatest team" spanning the previous 50 years. [15]

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References

  1. 1 2 McLaughlin, Gerry (23 January 2019). "Former Donegal captain Pauric McShea disappointed at county's call over Croke Park neutral status". The Irish News . Retrieved 23 January 2019. Former Ulster winning captain of 1974 and well known GAA pundit Pauric McShea believes the county should not be leading the charge to effectively take Dublin out of Croke Park for two of their three matches this year.
  2. "Donegal U21s target Ulster title". Ocean FM. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017. Ocean FM analyst and former Donegal captain Pauric McShea says the semi-final defeat of Cavan showed the strength in the Donegal squad…
  3. "Donegal still undefeated by Kerry in championship football". 5 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012. Sean Perry and Pauric McShea were there for Ocean FM, Sean delivering his sharp, knowledgeable, peerless commentary, Pauric giving us his incisive opinions.
  4. "Ocean FM". 17 July 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012. On Friday evening next, Ocean FM will broadcast and[sic] 'Up for the Match' special as Donegal aim to make history by winning back-to-back Ulster titles… the programme will be presented by Sean Perry and Pauric McShea.
  5. Brolly, Joe (12 July 2016). "Video didn't kill the radio star". Gaelic Life . Retrieved 12 July 2016. I listened to the Donegal Monaghan game in the car, flicking between Ocean FM and Northern Sound. I cannot remember the last time I enjoyed a game of football so much. The Monaghan men in one corner, with Nudie Hughes co-commentating. The Donegal men in the other, with Pauric McShea and contributions from wee Martin 'Well you know like, I'm not just saying it, but I think the decision to bring on our Mark is a good one' McHugh.
  6. McShea, Pauric (27 February 2020). "McShea's Say — Reflections on Dublin game, and thoughts on Monaghan clash this weekend" . Retrieved 27 February 2020. The game is live on Ocean FM.
  7. McShea, Pauric (27 November 2019). "Pauric McShea's weekly GAA Column: Glenties revolution to continue, but Kilcoo will be keen to spoil the party" . Retrieved 27 November 2019. Pauric McShea's column appears weekly in the Donegal Post — out every Wednesday.
  8. O'Connell, Cian (19 July 2017). "Paul McGettigan served Donegal and Galway" . Retrieved 19 July 2017. So with about 10 minutes to go I was brought on, basically at the insistence of Padraig[sic] McShea, the full back, who came out to the line and told them to introduce me.
  9. Daly, Tom. "One Hundred Years". 1972:… Alan Kane, Pauric McShea and Martin Carney are on final team, while Thomas Quinn and Josie Boyle are on panel, with Jim 'Natch' Gallagher as mentor… 1974: Pauric McShea captained Donegal to second Ulster title with Martin Carney, Alan Kane and Thomas Quinn also on panel. Jim 'Natch' Gallagher is mentor.
  10. "Pauric McShea". Hogan Stand . 16 October 1994. Pauric went on to captain the Ulster title winning Donegal team of '74…
  11. 1 2 Crowe, Dermot (26 May 2013). "History on both sides of divide". Sunday Independent . Retrieved 26 May 2013. 'So me [McEniff] and Pauric McShea (who played for Donegal in '73), whose mother is from Tyrone, we were in the middle of these supporters and the crack would have been 90, no bitterness, just banter'.
  12. 1 2 Moran, Sean (9 July 1997). "[P. J.] McGowan calls it a day with Donegal". The Irish Times . Speculation as to [McGowan's] successor has already begun… Selectors from '92, Seamus Bonner and Micahel[sic] Lafferty have also been mentioned, as has Padraig[sic] McShea, a close associate and former playing colleague of McEniff's, who impressed when coaching Killybegs to a county title last year.
  13. "1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Final: Dublin v Donegal". RTÉ Sport. 21 March 2020.
  14. McNulty, Chris (22 September 2017). "Declan Bonner: It'll be 'all or nothing' for Donegal's 'half mad' new manager" . Retrieved 22 September 2017. Anthony Molloy, Tom Connaghan[sic] and Pauric McShea all withdrew from the race and Pat Conaghan, the then county Chairman, informed Bonner at 9.29pm that he was the new Donegal manager.
  15. "GAA: Donegal's greatest team of the past 50 years named". Donegal Daily. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2021.