Leslie McGettigan explained
| Leslie McGettigan |
| Irish: | Leaschulainn Mac Eiteagáin |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Code: | Football |
| Clubs: | St Eunan's |
| County: | Donegal |
| Icyears: | 198?–19?? |
| Counties: | Donegal |
Leslie McGettigan (born 1960?) is a Gaelic football manager and former player for St Eunan's and Donegal.
McGettigan was born to footballer James "Gouldie" McGettigan and his wife Cora (née Embleton).[1] He was one of four daughters and seven sons (including fellow Donegal footballer Paul).[1] [2] One of McGettigan's brothers died at the age of sixteen in 1986 and another at the age of forty in 2009.[1]
He attended boarding school at St Jarlath's College in Tuam, where he played in three consecutive Hogan Cup finals, the first aged 15 making him the youngest in history.[2] He won the Hogan Cup in 1984.[3]
McGettigan won the 1987 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship. In 1988, he played a critical role in the county's victory against Laois, which led to the county's first promotion to Division One of the National Football League.
His club defeated Aodh Ruadh in the final of the 1997 Donegal Senior Football Championship by a scoreline of 1–11 to 2–7 but lost the title when McGettigan was found to have participated in two separate championships in the same year.[4] [5] Croke Park delayed its ruling until the following year, at which time the Games Administration Committee (GAC) banned McGettigan for 12 months.[6]
He lives in New York.[1] [4] He has managed the New York county football team.[7] He is a family friend of John Haran.[3]
Notes and References
- News: Death announced of James 'Gouldie' McGettigan. Donegal News. 21 June 2020. 21 June 2020. Living on the New Line Road, he is survived by his wife Cora (Nee Embleton), sons Paul (Galway), Jimmy (Derry), Eric (Churchill), Leslie (New York) and David (Galway)….
- News: Where football is more than a religion. The Irish Times. 2 October 2004. Leslie McGettigan, at the age of fifteen, was the youngest player to feature in a Hogan Cup final and one of the few boys in the history of the competition to feature in three successive finals. Nearly twenty years later, McGettigan remembers this time as 'the happiest three years of my life'. He had entered St Jarlath's through a family connection. His brother Paul married a sister of Jimmy Duggan's, the celebrated Galway football player and Jarlath's alumnus..
- News: Paddy. Heaney. John Haran: born in Donegal, sent to school in Galway. The Irish News. 30 July 2015. 30 July 2015.
- News: McGettigan faces long ban after Donegal row. Irish Independent. 30 January 1998. The Games Administration Committee were yesterday in the process of contacting McGettigan at his New York home to inform him of the decision they reached when they met the previous night to deal with the controversy which rocked Donegal football last September..
- Web site: First Senior County Title. St Eunan's GAA. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412174923/http://www.steunansgaa.com/contentPage/78471/f_i_r_s_t_s_e_n_i_o_r_c_o_t_i_t_l_e. 12 April 2015.
- News: Leslie McGettigan gets hit with year-long ban for playing in the US. The Irish News. 29 January 1998.
- News: N.Y. tackle Leitrim with eye on history. The Irish Echo. 16 February 2011. 16 February 2011.
