Sam McCartan (born 1999/2000) is a

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 St Loman's club and at senior level for Westmeath county team. He scored a goal against

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in the

2022 Tailteann Cup The 2022 Tailteann Cup was the inaugural edition of the Tailteann Cup, a Gaelic football competition contested by as many as sixteen county teams from Divisions 3 and 4 of the 2022 National Football League (Ireland), 2022 National Football Leag ...

. He passed the ball to Lorcan O'Toole for a second goal in the semi-final that got them past

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and into the competition's inaugural final. McCartan is a grandson of

Seán Purcell Seán Purcell (17 December 1928– 27 August 2005), was a Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Galway county team. Best known as a centre half-forward, he played in most outfield positions during his career. In 2009 he was ...

and is related to Ciarán Kilkenny.

Honours

;Westmeath *

Tailteann Cup The Tailteann Cup is a Gaelic football competition held annually since 2022 and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is contested by those county teams, which, in the given year, have not otherwise qualified for the All-Ireland ...

(1):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

;Individual * Tailteann Cup Team of the Year (1): 2022

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCartan, Sam Year of birth missing (living people) category:Living people St Loman's Gaelic footballers Westmeath inter-county Gaelic footballers