Christy Toye

Christy Toye
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Right Half Forward
Born (1983-03-10) 10 March 1983
Letterkenny, Ireland
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Club(s)
Years Club
2001-present Naomh Mícheál
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
2002-present Donegal
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles 3
All-Irelands 1
NFL 1
All Stars 0

Christy Toye (born 10 March 1983) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Naomh Mícheál. Along with his fellow club mate Colm McFadden, he is considered one of the mature elder statesman of the Donegal senior football panel.[1]

Among other accolades, he has one All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2012), three Ulster Senior Football Championships (2011, 2012 and 2014) and one National Football League (2007). He captained Donegal in the 2006 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park, appeared as a substitute for Leo McLoone against Mayo in the 2012 All-Ireland Final and was named to start against Kerry in the 2014 All-Ireland Final.

Inter-county

Toye burst onto the national scene with goals in the Championship against Meath in 2002 and Armagh in 2003, both at Croke Park.[2] He played for Donegal against Armagh in the 2004 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park, but went off injured and was replaced by Rory Kavanagh.[3] He captained Donegal in the 2006 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final against the same opponents at the same venue.[4] He was a member of the Donegal team that won the National Football League in 2007, playing from the start to the end in the final against Mayo.[5]

In 2009, while in the form of his life, Toye ruptured his Achilles tendon during an All-Ireland qualifier against Clare at MacCumhail Park.[2] He was left as a spectator when Armagh knocked Donegal from the 2010 Championship in Crossmaglen.[2] However, Toye returned the following season, rejuvenated by the arrival of Jim McGuinness as manager. He did not feature in the NFL or Ulster campaign but was sprung from the bench in the 2011 All-Ireland quarter-final against Kildare at Croke Park. Within 25 seconds of his first appearance in 25 months he had the ball in the back of the Kildare net, later making a further vital contribution by scoring the final equalising point of a game which Donegal went on to narrowly win through a memorable point from Kevin Cassidy in extra-time.[2] Toye had previously scored a goal for Donegal at Croke Park in a 2003 All-Ireland semi-final.[6] Indeed, with four goals, Toye is Donegal's record goalscorer at Croke Park - one goal each against Meath (2002), Armagh (2003), Cork (2006), and Kildare (2011).[7]

He came on as a second-half substitute for Leo McLoone in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, won by Donegal.[8] He missed the entire 2013 season while battling trigeminal neuralgia but was back in 2014 in time for another shot at the All-Ireland.[9][10][2] On 20 September 2014, he was named to start against Kerry in the following day's All-Ireland Final.[11][12][13]

Club

Toye's club have not had much success at senior level. They reached the final of the 2011 Donegal Senior Football Championship— their first ever senior final—but lost, though Toye scored three points.[14][15]

Honours

References

  1. ↑ Foley, Alan (11 September 2012). "Forward thinking McFadden". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Foley, Alan (16 September 2014). "Serious illness meant Christy Toye didn't play in 2013 but now he's set for All-Ireland final: The Donegal player has experienced a remarkable revival". The Score. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Awesome Armagh destroy Donegal". RTÉ Sport (RTÉ). 11 July 2004. Retrieved 11 July 2004. Rory Kavanagh replaced the injured Christy Toye just before the break as two more McKeever points extended Armagh's lead to eight – 1-9 to 0-4.
  4. ↑ "Donegal 0-09 1-09 Armagh". BBC Sport (BBC). 9 July 2006. Retrieved 9 July 2006.
  5. ↑ "Donegal achieve historic win - First national league title comes to county after victory over Mayo". Donegal Times. 25 April 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2007.
  6. ↑ McNulty, Chris (1 August 2011). "A goal-den moment for Christy Toye". Donegal News. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
  7. ↑ Foley, Alan (23 August 2011). "A Toye's own story". Donegal Democrat (Johnston Press). Retrieved 23 August 2011. The goal was the 28-year-old's fourth at Croke Park in championship football - following strikes against Meath in 2002, Armagh a year later and then Cork in 2006 - which is a feat matched by no man from the county.
  8. ↑ "Live updates from the All-Ireland finals at Croke Park". RTÉ Sport (RTÉ). 23 September 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2012.
  9. ↑ McNulty, Chris (3 February 2014). "‘Brilliant’ Christy Toye display the highlight for Jim McGuinness on useful opening day". Donegal News. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
  10. ↑ McNulty, Chris (29 September 2013). "Ciaran Bonner, Leon Thompson and Christy Toye among ‘new’ faces for Donegal". Donegal News. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  11. ↑ "Countdown to Croker: Donegal name ‘team’ for All-Ireland final". Donegal Daily. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  12. ↑ "Two changes to Donegal All-Ireland SFC final team". RTÉ Sport (Raidió Teilifís Éireann). 20 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  13. ↑ "Team news: Toye and McBrearty in". Hogan Stand. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  14. ↑ "Murphy is the star as Glenswilly triumph". The Irish Times (Irish Times Trust). 2 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  15. ↑ "Murphy magic proves key as Glenswilly secure first Donegal crown". Irish Independent (Independent News & Media). 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
???		 Donegal Senior Captain
200? - 2007 		Succeeded by
Neil Gallagher
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