Eamon McGee


Eamon McGee is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Gaoth Dobhair and also, formerly, for the Donegal county team. He is the brother of Neil McGee.
From Gweedore in County Donegal, he won one All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, three Ulster Senior Football Championships and one National Football League with his county and an Ulster title with his club.

Playing career

Club

In 2006, his club were back in the final of the Donegal Senior Football Championship. He played as his team won their 14th County Championship in one of the worst Donegal county finals ever.
He was sent off in the final of the 2018 Ulster Senior Club Football Championship.

Inter-county

McGee was first called up to the senior team by Brian McEniff for winter training in 2003. His early years in a Donegal shirt were marked by lapses of discipline—at one point Shane Carr left the panel when McGee moved ahead of him on the substitutes bench despite his lack of dedication.
In 2006, he and Kevin Cassidy were suspended from the Donegal football panel over a breach of discipline. McGee later returned and played in the 2006 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park, scoring one point.
McGee was a member of the Donegal team that won the National Football League in 2007, playing from the start to the end in the final against Mayo.
He spent some time in London and trained with their county team before returning to Donegal in 2010.
He and his brother played in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final against Mayo.
He departed the inter-county scene in 2016.

Inter-provincial

McGee has represented Ulster in the Inter-Provincial Series.

Management career

In November 2017, he became part of Gary McDaid's back-room team when McDaid became the first manager of the new Donegal under-20 football team.

Personal life

McGee has a profound fear of flying, a condition which has affected his ability to cope with flights to games.
McGee supports marriage equality and has campaigned to Repeal the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution.

Honours

;Donegal
;Gaoth Dobhair
;Individual