Columba McDyer

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Columba McDyer
Personal information
Irish name	Colm Mac Duibhir
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Centre Half-Forward
Born	Kilraine, County Donegal, Ireland
Occupation	Teacher of Construction Studies
Club(s)
Years	Club
? - ?	Glenties
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1942 - 1947	Cavan, Donegal
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles	3
All Irelands	1
NFL	0
All Stars	0

Columba McDyer (13 January 1921 - 18 September 2001)^[1] was a former Gaelic football player for Cavan and Donegal.

Playing career

McDyer, a Glenties man, played as a centre half-forward, bringing an element of tactics to the forward line. He played with the great Cavan team that won the legendary 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final at the Polo Grounds in New York City. This resulted in him becoming the first Donegal man to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal.

Following his success with Cavan, McDyer returned to Donegal and his native Glenties where he coached the Donegal senior team for a number of years. He also collected a Railway Cup medal with Ulster in 1942 and he also played in the same competition with Connacht.^[2]^[3]

Managerial career

McDyer managed Donegal. He was also an early influence on Jim McGuinness, Donegal's future All-Ireland winning manager. McGuinness described him as "an absolute gentleman to the fingertips, very well-educated [...] a very gentle, bubbly person".^[4]

References

↑ rootsweb
↑ "Celebrating 125 years of Footballing Excellence in Ulster: 125 - Donegal Player List". Irishnews125.blogspot.com. 2009-02-13. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
↑ "Legendary Glenties Footballer". Glenties.ie. 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2010-05-22.
↑ Lawlor, Damian (16 September 2012). "Managing to move forward: Jim McGuinness has restored the belief to Donegal and his job is not finished yet". Sunday Independent (Independent News & Media). Retrieved 16 September 2012. "A Glenties man whose work as a schoolteacher had taken him around the country, McDyer was an All-Ireland winner with Cavan in the Polo Grounds in 1947 before coming back to live on home soil and later manage the Donegal team."

v t e Cavan – 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (3rd title)

1 V. Gannon 2 W. Doonan 3 B. O'Reilly 4 P. Smith 5 J. Wilson 6 J. J. O'Reilly (c) 7 S. Deignan 8 P. J. Duke 9 P. Brady 10 A. Tighe 11 M. Higgins 12 C. McDyer 13 J. Stafford 14 P. Donohoe 15 T. P. O'Reilly

v t e Donegal senior football team – managers

? (Infinity–circa. 1992) C. McDyer (?–?) B. McEniff (circa. 1983) T. Conaghan (?–1990) B. McEniff (1990–circa. 1992) P. J. McGowan (after McEniff–mid-1990s) D. Bonner (1997–2000) M. Moran (2000–02) B. McEniff (2003–05) B. McIver (2005–08) J. J. Doherty (2008–10) J. McGuinness (2010–present)

Persondata
Name	McDyer, Columba
Alternative names
Short description	Gaelic football player
Date of birth	1921-01-13
Place of birth	Kilraine, County Donegal
Date of death	2001-09-18
Place of death

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