- Conleith Gilligan
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Conleith Gilligan 
Personal information Irish name Conláed Mac Giollagáin Sport Gaelic football Position Forward Born 17 December 1979
Ballinderry, County Londonderry,
Northern IrelandHeight 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Nickname Deets Occupation Business development manager[1] Club(s) Years Club 199x-Present Ballinderry Club Titles Derry titles 4 Ulster titles 1 All-Ireland Titles 1 Inter-county(ies) Years County 1999[2]-Present Derry Inter-county titles NFL 2 Conleith "Deets" Gilligan (Irish: Conláed Mac Giollagáin; born 17 December 1979[1]) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Derry, with whom he has won two National League titles.
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]
Contents
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]
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).
Honours
Inter-county
- National Football League:
- Winner (2): 2000, 2008
- Dr. McKenna Cup:
- Runner up: 2005,[8] more?
Club
- All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship:
- Winner (1): 2002
- All-Ireland Kilmacud Crokes Sevens Championship:
- Winner (1): 1998
- Runner up: 1999??
- Ulster Senior Club Football Championship:
- Ulster Senior Club Football League:
- Winner (1): 2008
- Derry Senior Football Championship:
- Derry Senior Football League:
- Winner (7): 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Numerous underage competitions
Individual
- Derry Senior Football Championship winning captain: 2006
Note: The above lists may be incomplete. Please add any other honours you know of.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Derry player profiles 2008". Official Derry GAA website. Early 2008. http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=666&Itemid=184. Retrieved 15 January 2009.
- ^ Duggan, Keith (26 April 2008). "Perfectly positioned to deliver for Derry". Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2008/0426/1209158402631.html. Retrieved 9 December 2008.
- ^ "Shamrocks and Emmett's set for epic tussle". Derry Journal. 2 September 2006. http://www.derryjournal.com/3422/40Friday-September-2241-Shamrocks-and.1784467.jp. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
- ^ Heaney, Paddy (29 April 2008). "Derry ace Conleith drunk on success". The Irish News. http://www.irishnews.com/searchlog.asp?reason=denied_empty&script_name=/pageacc.asp&path_info=/pageacc.asp&sid=586431&tser1=ser&par=ben. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
- ^ "Derry Football Roll Of Honour". Official Derry GAA website. http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=122. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
- ^ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report". RTÉ. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2008/0427/derrykerry.html. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Derry 2-13 Kerry 2-09 2008 National League Final report - Derry GAA website". Derry GAA website. http://www.derrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=630&Itemid=56. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
- ^ "Derry line-ups 2005". Derry GAA website. http://derry.gaa.ie/Football/team_news.htm. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
External links
Gaelic games Preceded by
Joe Cassidy
(Bellaghy)Derry Senior Football Championship
winning captain
2006Succeeded by
Paddy Bradley
(Glenullin)Derry Senior Football Team 1 B. Gillis • 2 K. McGuckin • 3 K. McCloy • 4 G. O'Kane • 21 C. McKaigue • 6 B. McGoldrick • 7 S.L. McGoldrick • 8 F. Doherty (c.) • 9 J. Diver • 10 B. McGuigan • 11 P. Murphy • 12 E. Lynn • 13 E. Bradley • 14 Paddy Bradley • 15 J. Kielt
Subs used: 27 M. Lynch for P. Murphy • 23 B. Mullan for E. Lynn
Subs not used: 5 P. Cartin • 16 J. Deighan • 17 D. McBride • 18 J. Keenan • 19 S.M. Lockhart • 20 B. Óg McAlary • 22 J. Conway • 24 G. McShane • 25 P. Young • 26 S. Bradley • 28 E. Brown • 29 D. Mulholland • 30 C. O'Boyle • Patsy Bradley (inj.) • S. McGuckin • N. McCusker (vice-c.) (inj.) • C. McWilliams • E. Muldoon (inj.)Manager: D. Cassidy
Backroom team: • K. Madden • M. O'Connell • • B. McRory(Team as 2009 Ulster Championship quarter-final versus Monaghan (24 May 2009))
Derry - National Football League winners 2000 (5th title) 1 M. Conlan | 2 G. Coleman | 3 S.M. Lockhart | 4 D. O'Neill | 5 H. Downey | 6 K. McKeever | 7 P. McFlynn | 8 A. Tohill | 9 D. Heaney | 10 N. McCusker | 11 D. Dougan | 12 R. Rocks | 13 P. Bradley | 14 E. Muldoon | 15 J. McBride
Subs used: • C. Gilligan for Rocks | • G. McGonigle for Gilligan | • S. McLarnon for Bradley
Subs not used: • B. Gillis | • A. Heaney | • E. Burns | • Others?Manager: E. Coleman
Backroom team: • D. Cassidy |(Team as 2000 NFL final replay versus Meath)
Note: This is not a complete list of the entire panel. If you know of any other unused subs or panel members, please add.Derry - National Football League winners 2008 (6th title) 1 B. Gillis | 2 K. McGuckin | 23 N. McCusker | 4 F. McEldowney | 5 L. Hinphey | 6 G. O'Kane | 7 M. McIver | 8 F. Doherty | 9 J. Diver | 10 M. Lynch | 11 B. McGoldrick | 12 E. Muldoon | 13 C. Gilligan | 14 Paddy Bradley | 15 E. Bradley
Subs used: 21 S.M. Lockhart for F. McEldowney | 26 Paul Murphy for E. Bradley | 3 K. McCloy (capt.) for L. Hinphey | 20 J. Keenan for M. McIver | 25 C. Mullan for C. Gilligan
Subs not used: 16 J. Deighan | 17 Patsy Bradley | 18 P. Cartin | 19 R. Dillon | 22 M. McBride | 24 R. McElhone | 27 P. O'Hea | 28 C. O'Kane | 29 R. Wilkinson | • J. Conway | • C. Devlin | • M. Friel | • E. Lynn | • S.L. McGoldrick | • E. O'KaneManager: P. Crozier
Backroom team: • Peter Doherty | • Martin Heaney | • Bernie Henry | • John McCloskey(Team as 2008 NFL final versus Kerry (27 April 2008))
Categories:- Derry Gaelic footballers
- Ballinderry Gaelic footballers
- 1979 births
- Living people
- National Football League:
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