Jamesie Donnelly Explained
| Jamesie Donnelly |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| Clyears: | 20??- |
| Clubs: | Seán Mac Cumhaills |
| County: | Donegal |
| Icyears: | 20??–2018 |
| Counties: | Donegal |
Jamesie Donnelly is a hurler. He plays for Seán Mac Cumhaills and, formerly, the Donegal county team.
He won the 2011 Lory Meagher Cup with his county, starting and completing the final.[1] [2]
He won the 2013 Nicky Rackard Cup, starting and completing the final.[3] [4] He also won the 2018 Nicky Rackard Cup, starting the final before being substituted at half-time.[5]
He retired from inter-county hurling in 2018.
Donnelly was part of the county management team in 2021, but had left this role by early 2022.[6]
Married to Claire, he is from Ballybofey. The couple have several children. Their third child, a daughter, died of triploid syndrome in February 2018.[7]
Notes and References
- News: Donegal 2–12 Tyrone 0–17. RTÉ Sport. 4 June 2011. 4 June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412230022/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/hurling/2011/0604/280726-donegal_tyrone/. 12 April 2015.
- News: Donegal thriller at Croke Park. 9 June 2011. 9 June 2011.
- News: Donegal 3–20 Roscommon 3–16. RTÉ Sport. 8 June 2013. 8 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412230618/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/hurling/2013/0608/455400-donegal-v-roscommon/. 12 April 2015.
- News: Donegal win Nicky Rackard Cup. Irish Examiner. 8 June 2013. 8 June 2013.
- News: Donegal win the Nicky Rackard Cup for the first time since 2013. Irish Independent. 23 June 2018. 23 June 2018.
- News: Ryan. Ferry. Donegal hurlers step into unknown against London. Donegal News. 3 February 2022. 64. [Mickey] McCann is now in his fifth season with Donegal, and his trusted trainer Gabriel O'Kane, who hails from Ballinascreen in Derry, is back on board. Sean MacCumhaill's clubman Jamesie Donnelly was involved in the management team last year but has now decided to step away. Donnelly hasn't been replaced… [McCann]: 'But we have got a good backroom team there with the likes of Martin McGrath and Anthony Coyle helping out'..
- News: Jamesie 'hurls' himself into marathon challenge. Donegal News. 15 April 2021. 11. Well-known Donegal hurler Jamesie Donnelly from Ballybofey will run a very personal marathon on June 5 to raise funds for a charity which supports families who have lost an infant. Jamesie and wife Claire lost their daughter Evanne a week before she was due to be born in February of 2018 to a very rare condition called Triploid Syndrome, a chromosomal disorder… 'The nurse in the hospital gently took Evanne's little body and simply took her footprints and a little lock of her hair and these were included in a memory box for us… They also brought brother and sister teddies for our two children, Ella May who is now nine and James who is seven… We now also have a six-month-old daughter, Fiadh. The year we lost Evanne was the year I retired from playing for Donegal'….
