Niall Morgan (born 17 July 1991) is an
Irish Gaelic football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...
er who plays for the
Edendork St Malachy's club and the
Tyrone county team.
A knee injury in 2013 ruled him out for the rest of the season. This was considered a severe blow to Tyrone's hopes of winning the
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) () is the premier inter-county competition in Gaelic football. County (Gaelic games), County teams compete against each other and the winner is declared All-Ireland Champions.
Organised by the ...
.
The
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...
outbreak in the Tyrone football squad twice delayed the
2021 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...
against
Kerry. Morgan later disclosed that he was one of the players who had contracted the virus, though he mistook his symptoms for
hayfever.
Morgan has won two
All-Star Awards, in 2021 and 2024.
He has also played
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
for
Dungannon Swifts,
and represented
Northern Ireland Under-18 schoolboys.
References
1991 births
Living people
Edendork St Malachy's Gaelic footballers
Gaelic footballers who switched code
Gaelic football goalkeepers
Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers
Association footballers from County Tyrone
Men's association football goalkeepers
Dungannon Swifts F.C. players
Sportspeople from Dungannon
NIFL Premiership players
Northern Ireland men's youth international footballers
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