Offaly county football team

The Offaly county football team represents Offaly in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Offaly GAA, the County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team compete in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Leinster Senior Football Championship and the National Football League.

Offaly's home ground is O'Connor Park, Tullamore. The team's manager is John Maughan.

The team last won the Leinster Senior Championship in 1997, the All-Ireland Senior Championship in 1982 and the National League in 1998.

History

Perhaps the most famous moment in football history came in the 1982 All-Ireland Final when Offaly played Kerry. The match was a repeat of the previous year's final; however, not only that but a win for Kerry would give them an unprecedented fifth consecutive All-Ireland SFC title. Kerry were winning by two points with two minutes to go when Séamus Darby came on as a substitute and scored one of the most famous goals of all time in football.[1] Kerry fumbled the counterattack which allowed Offaly to win by one single point with a score of 1–15 to 0–17.

The Offaly vocational schools' team have made it to six All-Ireland finals but lost all six, including the first final when they were beaten by the Cork City team in 1961.

Honours

National Football League Division 4 2015

Current squad
No. Player Position Club
1 Paddy Dunican Goalkeeper Shamrocks GAA
2 Declan Hogan Right Corner Back Rhode
3 Eoin Rigney Full Back Rhode
4 Davey Dempsey Left Corner Back Ballycommon
5 Niall Darby Right Half Back Rhode
6 Johnny Maloney Centre Back Tullamore
7 Cian Donohue Left Half Back St Bridgets
8 Eoin Carroll Midfield Cappincur
9 Cathal Mangan Midfield Kilclonfert
10 Shane Horan Right Half Forward Kilmacud Crokes
11 Peter Cunningham Centre Forward Bracknagh
12 Michael Brazil Left Half Forward Tullamore
13 Nigel Dunne Right Corner Forward Shamrocks
14 Niall McNamee Full Forward Rhode
15 Bernard Allen Left Corner Forward Tubber GAA

Squad as per Offaly v Westmeath, 2017 Leinster Senior Football Championship Quarter Final, 11 June 2017

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References
  1. Breheny, Martin (17 September 2010). "1982: Kerry stunned as Darby derails the Drive for Five". Irish Independent.
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