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Ronan O'Neill 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. He played in the 2018 All Ireland Final. He is working as a coach with the
Fermanagh senior football team The Fermanagh county football team ( ) represents Fermanagh GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association, in the Gaelic sport of football. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior ...
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Career

He won the 2014
Tyrone Senior Football Championship The Tyrone Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the ''Connollys of Moy'' ''Tyrone Senior Football Championship'') is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. The Tyrone County Boar ...
with his club Omagh St Enda's, scoring a last-minute goal against Carrickmore St Colmcille's in the final to bring about a scoreline of 1–10 to 0-12 and end a 26-year gap since the club's previous SFC title in 1988. He also won the 2017 Tyrone Senior Football Championship with his club. O'Neill retired from play after lifting the
Sam Maguire Cup The Sam Maguire Cup (), often referred to as Sam or The Sam, is a trophy awarded annually by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to the team that wins the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the main competition in the sport of Gaelic fo ...
after just missing out on the matchday panel for the 2021 Decider and giving ten years of
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surface. He plays club football for Omagh St Edna's. O'Neill was added to the
Fermanagh Historically, Fermanagh (), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of alleged Laigin or ...
backroom team with Kieran Donnelly as manager to coach forward play.


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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fermanagh county football team Gaelic football coaches Omagh St Enda's Gaelic footballers Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Tyrone-Gaelic-football-bio-stub