Matt Gallagher (Gaelic footballer)

Matt Gallagher
Personal information
SportGaelic football
PositionUtility player
Club(s)
YearsClub
? - ?Aodh Ruadh
Naomh Bríd
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCounty
1981 - 1995Donegal
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles?
All-Irelands1

Matt Gallagher is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. For many years he was Donegal's most capped player until Brian Roper broke his record.[1]

Gallagher played for Donegal from 1981 until 1995. He came down with appendicitis in 1983, causing him to miss Donegal's victory over Cavan in the Ulster final and the All-Ireland semi-final.[2] He was a member of the county's 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning team, when his performances drew acclaim from many quarters.[3] A utility player often deployed as a defender, he started at full-back in the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in which Donegal defeated Dublin by a scoreline of 0-18 to 0-14. Later that year he won an All Star for his performances in that campaign.[4]

He played his club football for Aodh Ruadh and, later, Naomh Bríd.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Roper heads into the sunset". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). 12 January 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2010. If ever a man deserved trumpeting and a fanfare Brian Roper deserved one. After he all is Donegal's most capped player. He beat Matt Gallagher's long standing record last year and when he finally shook hands with John Joe Doherty, he had played 159 games between league, championship and Dr. McKenna Cup.
  2. ↑ Campbell, Peter (15 July 2008). "Donegal heroes of 1983". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). Retrieved 15 July 2008. The game was to be the only game for young corner back, Matt Gallagher, who picked a hand injury before the semi-final and appendicitis ruled him out of the Ulster final and All-Ireland semi-final.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Gallagher, Matt". Hogan Stand. 17 July 1992. Above everyone else though, the player shortlisted by most commentators as their Player of the Provincial Championships is Donegal's Matt Gallagher. Now in his eleventh championship season with his native Donegal, the rock-solid stopper has been nothing shorts of brilliant over the course of his county's three match gallop to the Ulster senior Championship final showdown, which takes place on Sunday next.
  4. ↑ "The heroes of '92 - Where are they now?". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). 8 January 2009. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

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