John Divilly is a former
Gaelic football
Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...
er who played for the
Kilkerrin-Clonberne
Kilkerrin-Clonberne is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the parishes of Clonberne and Kilkerrin in North County Galway, Ireland. The club partakes in the sport of Gaelic Football exclusively.
History
In his 'Annals of the GAA in Gal ...
club. He won the
All-Ireland in 1998 and was one of the main players interviewed in the documentary ''A Year Til Sunday'', which used hidden cameras to tell the story of Galway's journey to winning the All-Ireland Football Championship in 1998. He is the manager of the
NUIM Sigerson Cup team which was victorious over
UUJ in February 2010.
He was appointed selector and backs coach of the Galway senior football team in October 2019, hoping to lead them to their first All Ireland since 2001.
He was a columnist for the ''
Irish Examiner
The ''Irish Examiner'', formerly ''The Cork Examiner'' and then ''The Examiner'', is an Irish national daily newspaper which primarily circulates in the Munster region surrounding its base in Cork, though it is available throughout the country. ...
'' between 2017 and 2021.
References
''Gaelic Football - John Divilly''
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Gaelic football coaches
Gaelic football selectors
Gaelic games writers and broadcasters
Galway inter-county Gaelic footballers
Irish columnists
Irish Examiner people
Kilkerrin-Clonberne Gaelic footballers
Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football)
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