Mattie Donnelly | |
Birth Place: | Trillick, Northern Ireland |
Height: | 1.830NaN0 |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Code: | Football |
County: | Tyrone |
Province: | Ulster |
Club: | Trillick |
Counties: | Tyrone |
Icyears: | 2010– |
Icposition: | Right Half Forward |
Icprovince: | 3 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Allstars: | 2 |
Mattie Donnelly is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Trillick club and the Tyrone county team.[1]
In 2015, he was a key part of a Tyrone teamed that reached the All-Ireland SFC semi-final, and was named in the All Stars team.[2]
Donnelly was named in the Ireland squad for the 2014 international rules test in Australia.[3] [4]
Following the retirement of Seán Cavanagh in 2017, Donnelly was appointed Tyrone senior captain. Pádraig Hampsey succeeded Donnelly as captain in May 2021,[5] [6] and it was Hampsey who became the third Tyrone captain to lift the Sam Maguire Cup, following Tyrone's victory over Mayo in the 2021 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.