Peter McGinnity

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Peter McGinnity (October 1953 - ), is a former Gaelic footballer and manager who hails from from Roslea in County Fermanagh. He played for Fermanagh for the best part of twenty years.

Peter first played for Ulster in 1973 and played right through until ’87, missing only two Railway Cup campaigns in that time. Of the 13 campaigns he took part in, he won four Railway Cup medals (1979, ’80, ’83 and ’84), captaining Ulster to glory in 1980 and ’83.

He won three Fermanagh Senior Football Championships with his native club Roslea Shamrocks as well as three in three years in Antrim with St John’s, Belfast from 1976 to 1979. Outside the adult team, Peter also collected two county U21 championships and a Fermanagh minor league title and two Fermanagh Intermediate Football Championships.

In the 1977/78 Ulster club final, St Johns defeated Cavan Gaels by 2-10 to 2-2 at Castleblayney. At Corrigan Park in Belfast, they subsequently accounted for Kingdom (London) and Summerhill (Meath) in All-Ireland club quarter-final and semi-final meetings, winning those matches by 10 and 13 points respectively.

The All-Ireland final took place in Croke Park on March 26th 1978 and St John’s were overpowered by a Thomond College, Limerick combination including Pat Spillane and Brian Talty in their ranks.

He played for his county at under 21 level for five years, winning two Ulster championships and contesting back-to-back All-Ireland finals. He also played in two Ulster minor deciders.

The brilliant Fermanagh man enjoyed a successful colleges and universities playing career and, as a coach, has managed Fermanagh and Leitrim and the college team St Michael’s, Enniskillen .

Peter had a lengthy schools, colleges and university career. He starred for St Michael’s, lining out in two McRory finals in ’69 and ’70 and was also on the only Michaels team to garner the Ranafast Cup, in 1970.

He won a Ryan Cup and a couple of Trench Cups with St Mary’s Belfast and was midfield on the Queens side that faced UCD in the 1975 Sigerson Cup final, marking John O’Keeffe that particular day. Peter also had the distinction of representing the Combined Colleges team.