Donal Shine

Donal Shine (born 28 February 1989) is a Gaelic footballer from County Roscommon.

Donal Shine
Personal information
Sport Gaelic Football
Position Full Forward
Born (1989-02-28) 28 February 1989
Ballinasloe, Ireland
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Club(s)
Years Club
2006-
 Clann na nGael
Club titles
Roscommon titles 2
Colleges(s)
Years College
 DCU
College titles
Sigerson titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
2008-
 Roscommon
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 2

Shine attended secondary school in Athlone Community College. He played with the Roscommon senior football team and the Clann na nGael club. He is the captain of the Clann na nGael Senior Men's Team. He played with the Roscommon minor team that beat Kerry in the 2006 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship final. In 2010 he was part of the DCU team that won the 2010 O'Byrne Cup beating Louth in the final and the Sigerson Cup beating UCC. In 2010 he helped the Roscommon U-21 team to a Connacht Under-21 Football Championship after a 1-06 to 0-04 win over Sligo. Later in the year he once again starred in a provincial final with Sligo as he scored 10 points in Roscommon's 0-14 to 0-13-point Connacht Senior Football Championship win. His father is former Roscommon manager Donie Shine.

In 2015, he picked up his first senior County medal with Clann na nGael, scoring 1–3 in the final against Padraig Pearses.[1] Shine's last appearance for Roscommon was in the Connacht Final in 2016 versus Galway.

Honours

References
  1. https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2015/1018/735698-roscommon-sfc/
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