Eoin Mulligan

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**Eoin Mulligan**
Image:OwenMulligan.jpg
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Date of Birth	June 03, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Tyrone, Ireland
Height	5'11"
Nickname(s)	Mugsy
Occupation	Joiner
Club information
Club	Cookstown Fr. Rocks
Position	Full Forward
Club(s)*
Club	Years	Apps (scores)
Cookstown St Brendan's	?-present
Inter County
County	Tyrone
Position	Full Forward
Inter County(ies)**
County	Years	Apps (scores)
Tyrone	?-present
Inter County Titles
Ulster Titles	2
All-Ireland	2
NFL	2
All-Stars	1
* club appearances and scores correct as of 01:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC). **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 01:07, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

Eoin "Mugsy" Mulligan (sometimes spelled Owen Mulligan) is an Irish Gaelic football player. He helped Tyrone win the 2005 All-Ireland Final and plays in Cookstown for St. Rocks. His instantly recogniseable bleached-blonde hair, coupled with his talent on the pitch has marked him out as one of the bright young stars of Gaelic Football.

1 Underage achievements
2 Senior career
3 Outside gaelic football
4 External links

[edit] Underage achievements

At underage level, Mulligan's success is prolific. As an Under-18, he reached the All-Ireland final in 1997 and 1998, (which includes two Ulster titles]], scoring a goal in the 1998 final, and was part of the Tyrone Vocational Schools team that won the All-Ireland in 1998, although a broken arm prevented him playing in the final. As a pupil at Holy Trinity College, Cookstown, Mulligan won the Tyrone, Ulster and All-Ireland Championships also in 1998.^[1]

[edit] Senior career

Eoin is a member of the current generation of Tyrone players that have enjoyed unprecedented success on the All-Ireland stage. He was part of the Tyrone team that won the All-Irelands in 2003 and 2005.

He made an immediate splash to his senior career against local rivals Armagh by scoring a goal in the first thirty seconds. However, his contribution to the game was stifled after that and he was replaced at half time.^[2]

His best-remembered performance is probably against Dublin in the drawn All-Ireland Quarter Final, when he scored what the RTE commentator described as "one of the great goals we have seen at Croke Park". When Tyrone were on the backfoot, Mulligan picked up a pass from Stephen O'Neill on the 45m line. He turned his marker, and started heading goalward, dummying two more defenders out of the tackle, and shooting the ball past an oncoming Dublin player and the goalie to rocket the net. This performance almost single-handedly earned him the Ulster writers Player of the Month award.^[3] In the replay, 'Mugsy' showed that he had returned to form by scoring 1-07, and was named the Man of the Match in the 2005 All-Ireland Final.

[edit] Outside gaelic football

Mulligan also represented Tyrone in the 1996 Milk Cup, and played under 15 soccer in Canada.^[1]

As a student, he was under the tutelage of Tyrone great, Peter Canavan, who often managed him in the school football team. As Mulligan rose up the ranks, the two players played together on the Tyrone team in the late nineties.^[4]

	Tyrone Senior Football Team
1 Pascal McConnell \| 2 Ryan McMenamin \| 3 Peter Donnelly \| 4 Dermot Carlin \| 5 David Harte \| 6 Conor Gormley \| 7 Justin McMahon \| 8 Kevin Hughes \| 9 Enda McGinley \| 10 Brian Dooher(Cap.) \| 11 Martin Penrose \| 12 Ryan Mellon \| 13 Niall Gormley \| 14 Colm McCullagh \| 15 Stephen O'Neill \| Subs: Johnathan Curran, Colm Cavanagh, Colm Donnelly, Cairan Gourley, Colin Holmes, Kelvin Hughes, Aidan McCarron, Cathal McCarron, Damien McCaul, Tommy McGuigan, Joe McMahon, Raymond Mulgrew, Paul Quinn, Paul Rouse, Declan Treanor Unavailable Panellists: Gerard Cavlan, Brian McGuigan, Phillip Jordan, Cormac McGinley, Michael McGee, Sean Cavanagh, P McGurk, Mickey Murphy, Eoin Mulligan Manager: Mickey Harte (Team as of 31 March 2007 versus Kerry)

	Tyrone Panel: 2003 All-Ireland Final
1 John Devine \| 2 Cairan Gourley \| 3 Cormac McAnallen \| 4 Ryan McMenamin \| 5 Conor Gormley \| 6 Gavin Devlin \| 7 Phillip Jordan \| 8 Kevin Hughes \| 9 Sean Cavanagh \| 10 Brian Dooher \| 11 Brian McGuigan \| 12 Gerard Cavlan \| 13 Enda McGinley \| 14 Peter Canavan (Cap.) \| 15 Eoin Mulligan \| Subs: 16 Pascal McConnell, 17 Dermot Carlin, 18 Mark Harte, 19 Colin Holmes, 20 Paul Horisk, 21 Chris Lawn, 22 Peter Loughran, 23 Declan McCrossan, 24 Michael McGee, 25 Cormac McGinley, 26 Frank McGuigan 27 Seamus Mulgrew 28 Stephen O'Neill 29 Brian Robinson 30 Michael Coleman Manager: Mickey Harte (Team as of September 2003 versus Armagh)

	Tyrone Panel: 2005 All-Ireland Final
1 Pascal McConnell \| 2 Ryan McMenamin \| 3 Joe McMahon \| 4 Michael McGee \| 5 David Harte \| 6 Conor Gormley \| 7 Phillip Jordan \| 8 Enda McGinley \| 9 Sean Cavanagh \| 10 Brian Dooher (Cap.) \| 11 Brian McGuigan \| 12 Ryan Mellon \| 13 Peter Canavan \| 14 Stephen O'Neill \| 15 Eoin Mulligan \| Subs: John Devine, Eoghain Bradley, Brian Meenan, Gavin Devlin, Brendan Donnelly, Peter Donnelly, Cairan Gourley, Mark Harte, Colin Holmes, Chris Lawn, Colm McCullagh, Leo Meenan, Michael Murphy, Martin Penrose, Shane Sweeney Manager: Mickey Harte (Team as of September 2005 versus Kerry)