Odhrán Mac Niallais

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Odhrán Mac Niallais
Personal information
Irish name Odhrán Mac Niallais
Sport Gaelic football
Position Midfield/Forward
Born (1992-08-17) 17 August 1992 (age 31)
Letterkenny, Ireland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Club(s)
Years Club
2009- Gaoth Dobhair
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
2011- Donegal
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles 1

Odhrán Mac Niallais (17 August 1992) is an Irish Gaelic footballer. He plays with C.L.G. Ghaoth Dobhair and the Donegal senior inter-county team. With one Ulster senior title to his name, Mac Niallais has been a prominent feature of the Donegal midfield since 2014.

Playing career

Mac Niallais was first called into the Donegal senior team as an 18-year-old in the winter of 2011 by manager Jim McGuinness. He played in the 2012 Dr. McKenna Cup but injuries hampered his progress that year for club and county.[1] He returned to training ahead of the next season and played in the 2013 Dr. McKenna Cup.[2][3] In the 2013 National Football League he made substitute appearances against Down in the second game and against Dublin in Donegal's final league game of the season, both in Ballybofey.[4][5][6] He also played in the under-21 team that lost to Cavan in the 2013 Ulster final.[7]

Mac Niallais arrived in 2014 having played around a half-an-hour of meaningful senior inter-county football for Donegal.[8] That year would bring his first league start -agaiainst Laois at O'Moore Park. He palmed home a goal in the twelfth minute and scored a point later in the same match.[9] The year also brought games in the Senior Championship for Mac Niallais for the first time. Called onto the field when Donegal were forced to make emergency reparations to the midfield following injuries to Rory Kavanagh and Neil Gallagher, Mac Niallais collected the man of the match award in the Ulster semi-final against Antrim at Clones.[1][10][11] He then won his first Ulster senior title, helping himself to three points in the final against Monaghan.[12]

Honours

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