Brian McLaughlin (Gaelic footballer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Brian Mac Lochlainn | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
?– | St Michael's | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
?–200? | Donegal | ||
Brian McLaughlin is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for St Michael's and the Donegal county team.
He won the 1995 All-Ireland Vocational Schools Championship.[1]
During the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, he and Eamon McGee were suspended from the Donegal panel for a breach of discipline.[2] The BBC reported that the pair had arrived for a "training session in an unfit condition" on two consecutive nights, one month after failing to turn up for one session at all.[3]
McLaughlin's club have not had much success at senior level. They reached the final of the 2011 Donegal Senior Football Championship—their first ever senior final—but lost.[4][5]
Previously, in 2004, they reached the final of All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship, in which McLaughlin scored two points (including one free).[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Bonner, Declan (28 May 2020). "Champions dethroned". Donegal News. p. 55.
Our Vocational School team won the All-Ireland title against Leitrim in the curtain raiser [to the NFL final in 1995 which, in reference to the column title, was played one week before Donegal knocked out Down in the Ulster SFC preliminary round, 25 years before the column was written]. Brian McLaughlin, Eamon Reddin, Barry Monaghan and Ray Sweeney were all on that team and would go on to represent the county at senior level.
- ^ "Donegal morale 'good'". BBC Sport. 23 July 2004.
- ^ "Donegal duo axed from panel". BBC Sport. 16 July 2004.
- ^ "Murphy is the star as Glenswilly triumph". The Irish Times. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- ^ "Murphy magic proves key as Glenswilly secure first Donegal crown". Irish Independent. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Easy in the end for Ilen". Irish Independent. 26 April 2004.