Fergal O'Donnell

Fergal O’Donnell
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Forward
Born	Roscommon Town, Co Roscommon Ireland
Occupation	Garda Siochana
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Roscommon Gaels
Club titles
Roscommon titles	5
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1992-2003	Roscommon
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	1
All-Irelands	0
NFL	0
All Stars	0

Fergal O'Donnell is a former Gaelic football player and manager from County Roscommon. As a player he led Roscommon as captain to the Connacht Senior Football Championship in 2001. He also won a Connacht Minor Football Championship in 1989.

He played his club football with Roscommon Gaels with whom he won Roscommon Senior Football Championship medals in 1994, 1998, 1999 2001 and 2004.

After retiring from playing he went into management. In 2006 he led Roscommon to a shock Connacht Minor Football Championship and All-Ireland Minor Football Championship. In 2010 he once again led Roscommon to a Connacht Senior Football Championship this time as manager of the team. In October 2011 O'Donnell resigned as manager due to work commitments.^[1]

O'Donnell returned to management in 2013 when he took over Roscommon minor team once more. He led them back to back Connacht final appearances but lost on both occasions to Mayo. The highlight of his term was beating hot favourites Kildare to reach All Ireland semi final^[2] O'Donnell stepped down from his post after a narrow All Ireland quarter final defeat to Ulster champions Donegal the following year ^[3]

On October 5, 2015 it was confirmed that Fergal O Donnell would become joint manager of Roscommon senior team alongside his former Roscommon Gaels team mate Kevin McStay.

References

Roscommon – 2006 All-Ireland Minor Football Champions (4th title)

1 M. Miley 2 P. Domican 3 P. Gleeson 4 S. Ormsby 5 N. Carty 6 D. Flynn (c) 7 C. Garvey 8 D. Keenan 9 D. Shine 10 F. Cregg 11 D. O'Gara 12 C. Devaney 13 P. Garvey 14 J. McKeague 15 K. Waldron Subs used C. McHugh for McKeague A. O'Hara for P. Garvey Manager F. O'Donnell

Roscommon senior football team – managers

M. McDermott (1987–92) D. Earley (1992–94) D. Shine (1994–97) G. Sheerin (1997–00) J. Tobin (2000–02) T. Carr (2002–05) Val Daly (2005) J. Maughan (2005–08) P. Earley (2008) M. Ryan (2008) F. O'Donnell (2008–11) D. Newton (2011–12) J. Evans (2012–15) K. McStay & F. O'Donnell (2012–15)

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