Johnny McCafferty (born 1979) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Termon and, formerly, the Donegal county team. In

Mickey Moran Mickey Moran is a former Gaelic footballer and manager-coach, who has been manager of Kilcoo since 2019, with a background as an inter-county manager who most recently managed the Leitrim county team. He played at senior level for the Der ...

's first game in charge of Donegal, at home to

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in October 2000, McCafferty scored the game's only goal which assisted his team to victory. McCafferty was involved in championship football for his county in 2001 and 2003. His substitution (and those of

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and

Raymond Sweeney Raymond Sweeney is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for An Clochán Liath and the Donegal county team. He started the first game of Brian McEniff's last spell as Donegal manager, a league defeat to Galway in Tuam in February 200 ...

) out of the

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replay defeat to

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led to Moran falling out with one of his selectors, who believed he had not been informed of the decision in advance. Having previously scored a goal in Moran's first game, McCafferty also scored a goal away to

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in February 2003, in what was Brian McEniff's first game during his last spell as manager. He won the 2019 All-Ireland Masters Football Championship with Donegal. McCafferty was still playing for his club at the age of 40. He scored four points (two of which were frees) in the final of the 2003

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, in what was his club's first appearance at the concluding stage of the competition. He also played in the final of the 2008 Donegal Senior Football Championship. He also played for

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. He is the son of Sheila McCafferty. Married to Lisa ('' née'' Hegarty), he has a son and two daughters.

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