Eamonn Doherty (born 1990/1) is an Irish

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er who plays for St Eunan's and the Donegal county team. He is a secondary school teacher in

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Playing career

Club

Eamonn Doherty started his club's winning senior county finals in 2007, 2009 and 2012 and came on as a substitute in 2008. This was all by the age of 24 and national media referred to him as "one of the most decorated players in the north-west". He made a second-half substitute appearance in the final as his club won the 2021 Donegal Senior Football Championship.

Inter-county

Doherty played for Donegal throughout the 2010

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campaign, a competition which Donegal won. He then played in the final of the 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship, which Donegal (managed by

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) narrowly lost to

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(managed by Jim Gavin). Himself,

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, James Carroll and Declan Walsh transferred to

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for the summer in 2011. McGuinness gave Doherty his senior league debut came against Dublin in

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in the final game of the 2013 National Football League, having only called him up days earlier. He made an immediate impact, colliding with the referee, leaving him flattened in a heap and taking him out of the game. Doherty started

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's first match in charge of the county, a

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away defeat to

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. Having flattened the referee in a heap and taken him out of the game, Doherty did not play in the National Football League again until 2015, his second appearance also coming against Dublin. That year, he featured in six of Donegal's eight National Football League Division One fixtures and started at

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against

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in the Championship when

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did not recover from an injury in time. Doherty started the opening fixture of the 2016 National Football League away to

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. He then started the second fixture against

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, a ten-point win in Ballyshannon. He also started the third, fourth and fifth fixtures against

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and

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. He made a late substitute appearance in the seventh fixture, away to

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. Doherty made a late substitute appearance in the

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qualifier defeat of Cork at Croke Park. Doherty made a substitute appearance in the opening fixture of the

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against Kerry. He also made substitute appearances in the second, third and fourth fixtures against Roscommon, Dublin and

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. He started the fifth, sixth and seventh fixtures against Tyrone, Monaghan and Mayo. Doherty made a substitute appearance in the

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semi-final against Tyrone. Doherty scored a point against Tyrone in the 2018 National Football League. Though restricted to substitute appearances for much of the competition, Doherty lifted the Anglo-Celt Cup as Donegal secured the

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. He made his two substitute appearances in the preliminary round against Cavan and the semi-final against Down. He started against Dublin in the

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, scoring a point at Croke Park as his county gave the reigning All-Ireland champions their toughest test since the previous year's All-Ireland final. Doherty started against

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in the opening fixture of the 2019 National Football League in

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. He also featured in the second fixture against

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, the fourth fixture against

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and the sixth fixture against Cork, all from the start. Donegal qualified for the National Football League Division 2 final and Doherty made a substitute appearance in the game as Donegal defeated Meath to win the title. He made a late substitute appearance in the

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quarter-final victory over Fermanagh, though he did not feature in the semi-final victory over Tyrone or in the final against Cavan, which Donegal won. Then, with

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injured, Doherty came in from the start in Donegal's

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quarter-final meeting with Kerry at Croke Park.

Personal life

Doherty is from

Letterkenny Letterkenny ( ga, Leitir Ceanainn , meaning 'hillside of the O'Cannons'), nicknamed 'the Cathedral Town', is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, a county in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Letterkenny lies on the ...

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''. He took up a position as a secondary school teacher in

, having completed his degree at

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(DCU) in 2013. In his first year as a qualified teacher one of his students was Darach O'Connor, who started the

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. Doherty's brother Niall, an accountant, has served as

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of the St Eunan's club. The photograph at the bottom of the page is then captioned: "Eamonn Doherty receives Club Person of the Year Award on behalf of his brother Niall from Club Chairman John Haran", with Eamonn Doherty on the left and

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on the right. As of June 2020, Doherty lives in Letterkenny.

Honours

;Donegal *

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* National Football League Division 2:

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runner-up: 2010 *

: 2010 ;St Eunan's *

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: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2021

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Doherty, Eamonn 1990s births Living people Alumni of Dublin City University Donegal Boston Gaelic footballers Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaelic football backs Irish schoolteachers People educated at St Eunan's College People from Letterkenny St Eunan's Gaelic footballers