Anthony O'Doherty (born 23 April 1947) is a Northern Irish former

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and football manager. A native of

Creggan, Derry Creggan (; meaning ''stony place'') is a large housing estate in Derry, Northern Ireland, on a hill not far from the River Foyle. It lies on the townlands of Ballymagowan and Edenballymore. The estate is very close to the border with County ...

, O'Doherty played for Coleraine FC,

Derry City FC Derry City Football Club are a professional Association football, football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland. They play in the League of Ireland Premier Division, the top tier of league football in the Republic of Ireland, and are its only ...

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Dundalk FC Dundalk Football Club ( ) is a professional football club that competes in the League of Ireland First Division. It was founded in 1903 as Dundalk G.N.R., the works-team of the Great Northern Railway. It is based in Dundalk, County Louth and ...

and briefly for

Ballymena United Ballymena United Football Club is a semi-professional football club from Northern Ireland. Based in Ballymena, County Antrim, the team competes in the NIFL Premiership and plays home matches at the Ballymena Showgrounds. The club has been man ...

and also internationally for

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in the

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against

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in front of a crowd of 100,000 at the old

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on 21 April 1970. In total, he won two international caps. From 1993 to 1994, O'Doherty managed his old club, Derry City.

Other

According to

Eamonn McCann Eamonn McCann (born 10 March 1943) is an Irish political activist, former politician and journalist from Derry, Northern Ireland. McCann was a People Before Profit (PBP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Foyle from 2016 to 2017. In ...

, O'Doherty headed the Free Derry Police for a time in the early 1970s.McCann, Eamonn, ''War and an Irish Town'', 2nd edition, Pluto Press, London, 1980; , p. 100 O'Doherty now writes an opinion-based column, the "Doc's Prescription", in the sports section one of the ''

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''.

Honours

Blaxnit Cup The Blaxnit Cup, is a defunct club football competition which featured teams from both football associations on the island of Ireland, in a similar format to the later Setanta Cup. It was inaugurated in 1967 as a cross-border competition between ...

Coleraine F.C. Coleraine Football Club is a Northern Irish football club, playing in the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. The club, founded in 1927 hails from Coleraine, County Londonderry, and plays its home match ...

1969 *

FAI Cup The Football Association of Ireland Senior Challenge Cup (FAI Cup), known as the Sports Direct FAI Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out association football competition contested annually by teams from the Republic of Ireland (as well as D ...

1974 **

Dundalk Dundalk ( ; ) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland. The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the bor ...

1981

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Odoherty, Tony 1946 births Living people Association footballers from Derry (city) Men's association footballers from Northern Ireland League of Ireland players League of Ireland managers Derry City F.C. managers Derry City F.C. players NIFL Premiership players Coleraine F.C. players Northern Ireland men's international footballers Finn Harps F.C. players Ballymena United F.C. players Men's association football midfielders Association football managers from Northern Ireland