Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Seán Ó Coigligh | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Full-forward | ||
Born |
1992 (age 31–32) Roslea, County Fermanagh, | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Roslea Shamrocks | |||
Club titles | |||
Fermanagh titles | 4 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2011– | Fermanagh | 18 (8–68) | |
Inter-county titles | |||
Ulster titles | 0 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NFL | 0 | ||
All Stars | 0 |
Seán Quigley (born 1992) is a Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career at senior level with the Fermanagh county team began with his debut in 2011. [1] He is from Roslea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
Quigley plays his club football for Roslea Shamrocks GFC. [2] He made his inter-county debut for Fermanagh in 2011 while still playing Gaelic football at school due to a large number Fermanagh footballers walking away from playing for the county. [1] His first game was against London at Emerald GAA Grounds in London. [1] In 2014, he was dropped from the Fermanagh team after being found playing an association football game on the same day as a Fermanagh match. [3]
He became the highest scorer in the National Football League and was the second highest in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 2015. [1] He would have won the Golden Boot had it not been for a technical error by the GAA who had failed to count an extra point for Mayo's Cillian O'Connor which was noticed on a DVD, which gave the award to O'Connor. [4] As a result, he was nominated for the season's GAA GPA All Stars Awards. [5] He gained notoriety after staying up before a match against Laois and eating a whole pizza at 2am, with the pizza shop giving him two free pizzas upon his next visit. [6]
In 2016, he was banned for one match by the Gaelic Athletic Association for turning off the lights in the Athletic Grounds tunnel during a match against Armagh, which resulted in Fermanagh being fined €5,000. [7] [8] In 2020, Quigley announced he was stepping back from county football as he felt he was not enjoying it. [2]
As of the end of the 2021 season, he had made 101 appearances for Fermanagh. [9]
Quigley was educated at St Michael's School in Enniskillen. [1] He has two brothers Conor and Seamus, both of whom are also Gaelic footballers who have played for Fermanagh. [10]