Columba McDyer explained
| Columba McDyer |
| Irish: | Colm Mac Duibhir |
| County: | Cavan |
| Occupation: | Teacher of Construction Studies |
| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Province: | Ulster |
| Club: | Glenties |
| Clyears: | ?–? |
| Counties: | Cavan
Donegal |
| Icyears: | 1942–1947 |
| Icprovince: | 3 |
| Icposition: | Centre half-forward |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Nfl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0 |
| Birth Place: | Kilraine, County Donegal, Ireland |
Columba McDyer (13 January 1921 – 18 September 2001)[1] was a Gaelic footballer who played for Cavan and Donegal.
Playing career
McDyer was from Glenties, and played as a centre half-forward. He played with the Cavan team that won the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final at the Polo Grounds in New York City. This resulted in him becoming the first Donegal man to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal.
Following his success with Cavan, McDyer returned to Donegal and his native Glenties where he coached the Donegal senior team for a number of years. He also collected a Railway Cup medal with Ulster in 1942 and he also played in the same competition with Connacht.[2] [3]
Managerial career
McDyer managed Donegal. He was also an early influence on Jim McGuinness, Donegal's future All-Ireland winning manager. McGuinness described him as "an absolute gentleman to the fingertips, very well-educated… a very gentle, bubbly person".[4]
Honours
McDyer was inducted into the Donegal Sports Star Awards' Hall of Fame in 1987.[5]
Notes and References
- Web site: rootsweb . 2010-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110103043436/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/kilreangy.htm . 2011-01-03 . dead .
- Web site: Celebrating 125 years of Footballing Excellence in Ulster: 125 - Donegal Player List . Irishnews125.blogspot.com . 2009-02-13 . 2010-05-22.
- Web site: Legendary Glenties Footballer . Glenties.ie . 2007-08-10 . 2010-05-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071119043119/http://www.glenties.ie/Article_Details.aspx?article_id=424&tscategory_id=45 . 19 November 2007 .
- News: Damian. Lawlor. Managing to move forward: Jim McGuinness has restored the belief to Donegal and his job is not finished yet. Sunday Independent. Independent News & Media. 16 September 2012. 16 September 2012. A Glenties man whose work as a schoolteacher had taken him around the country, McDyer was an All-Ireland winner with Cavan in the Polo Grounds in 1947 before coming back to live on home soil and later manage the Donegal team..
- News: Chris. McNulty. Brian McEniff to enter Donegal Sports Star Awards Hall of Fame. 17 January 2018. 17 January 2018. Among the other names from Gaelic Football to be inducted into the Hall of Fame include Tom Farren, Buncrana (1978); Bernard Coyle, Gweedore (1980); Columba McDyer, Glenties (1987); Hugh Tim Boyle (1990); Mick Melly, Ballyshannon (1991), Jim Gallagher Ballyshannon (2000),[sic].
