Neil McGee
Irish Gaelic football player
Neil McGee (born 13 November 1985) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Gaoth Dobhair and, formerly, both the Donegal county team and the Ireland international rules football team.
From Gweedore in County Donegal, he won three All Stars, one All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title, five Ulster Senior Football Championship titles and one National Football League title with his county, an Ulster Senior Club Football Championship title with his club and two International Rules Series with his country.
Playing career
Club
He made his championship debut for his club against Na Piarsaigh on 23 June 2002. By 2023 he had won three Donegal Senior Football Championship (SFC) titles with his club: in 2002, 2006 and 2018; and he had played for his club in 22 consecutive championship campaigns, including in 32 consecutive championship games between 2002 and 2009. Ahead of the 2023 Donegal Senior Football Championship final, he had made 98 appearances in the club championship (93 in the Donegal SFC and 5 in the Ulster and All-Ireland Club SFC).
McGee, as noted above, won his first Donegal SFC title in 2002.
In 2006, his club returned to the Donegal SFC final. McGee played as his team won a 14th title, in one of the worst Donegal county finals ever.
McGee won the 2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship, a first for the club since 2006. He then played during Gaoth Dobhair's first ever Ulster Senior Club Football Championship-winning campaign later in 2018, defeating Crossmaglen Rangers in the Ulster semi-final at Healy Park in Omagh to qualify for the final.
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