Damien Comer | |
Irish: | Damien Ó Ciaragáin |
Occupation: | Secondary school teacher |
Birth Date: | 11 January 1994 |
Birth Place: | Galway, Ireland |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Code: | Football |
County: | Galway |
Province: | Connacht |
Club: | Annaghdown |
Clyears: | 2012– |
Clposition: | Full Forward |
Counties: | Galway |
Icyears: | 2014– |
Icposition: | Full Forward |
Icapps(Points): | 37 (11-48) |
Icprovince: | 3 |
Nfl: | 1 (Div.2) |
Allstars: | 1 |
Icupdate: | 23 April 2023 |
Damien Comer (born 11 January 1994) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Annaghdown and at senior level for the Galway county team.
Comer is a former pupil of St Jarlath's College in Tuam, and also a graduate of NUI Galway, with whom he reached the 2018 Sigerson Cup final.[1]
Comer did not play for Galway at minor level.[2]
He was a member of the Galway team that won the Under-21 Championship in 2013.[3] He made his senior Championship debut in 2014, when he came on as a substitute against London in the Connacht Championship.[4] Comer was part of the Galway team that won the 2016 Connacht Championship. He started all of the team's games as the county won its first Connacht title since 2008.[5] [6]
Comer completed a Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and a Master's degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development between 2016 and 2018.[7] [8]
He is a science and maths teacher at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir in Claregalway and spoke about the difficulty of teaching from home during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.[9] [10] His fellow teammate Paul Conroy also teaches in the school.[9]
Comer is in a long term relationship with his girlfriend Megan Glynn.[7]
As of match played 23 April 2023
Team | Year | National League | Connacht | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
Galway | 2014 | Division 2 | 2 | 0-00 | 3 | 0-01 | 2 | 0-02 | 7 | 0-03 | |
2015 | 5 | 1-07 | 3 | 2-06 | 3 | 1-03 | 11 | 4-16 | |||
2016 | 7 | 4-10 | 3 | 0-05 | 1 | 1-00 | 11 | 5-15 | |||
2017 | 3 | 1-02 | 2 | 0-04 | 2 | 0-01 | 7 | 1-07 | |||
2018 | Division 1 | 7 | 1-14 | 3 | 2-06 | 4 | 1-06 | 14 | 4-26 | ||
2019 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | |||
2020 | 6 | 0-06 | 1 | 0-00 | - | 7 | 0-06 | ||||
2021 | 2 | 0-02 | 2 | 1-01 | - | 4 | 1-03 | ||||
2022 | Division 2 | 6 | 4-11 | 3 | 0-04 | 3 | 2-05 | 12 | 6-20 | ||
2023 | Division 1 | 4 | 0-04 | 1 | 1-04 | 5 | 1-08 | ||||
Career total | 42 | 11-56 | 21 | 6-31 | 16 | 5-17 | 79 | 22-104 |
2014
2013