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Conor Doherty

Irish Gaelic football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ5162217 ↗
Source-derived summary

Conor Doherty (born 22 November 1990) is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Galway. Doherty played his club football with Tuam Stars and county football for the Galway senior football team from 2011 to 2013.

He was Right half back on the Galway Minor team that won the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 2007.

Doherty previously played with the Galway U21 team who won the All-Ireland defeating Cavan.

Editorial summary

“Conor Doherty” enters the record as irish Gaelic football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Conor, Doherty and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2011, 2013, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990-11-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Conor, Doherty and Irish.
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Why this record matters

“Conor Doherty” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Conor, Doherty and Irish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5162217. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1990, 2011, 2013 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Conor Doherty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.