Seán Quigley

Seán Quigley

Personal information
Irish name	Seán Ó Coigligh
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Full-forward
Born	1992 (age 32–33) 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.

Career

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]

Personal life

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]

References

1. Clerkin, Malachy (11 June 2015). "Pizza, points, piss-taking: The world according to Fermanagh's Seán Quigley". Irish Times. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
2. Hannon, Shane (6 January 2020). "Big blow for Fermanagh as Seán Quigley opts out of senior football panel". Today FM. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
3. "Erne management silence amid Quigley brothers 'walkout' reports". BBC News. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
4. Keane, Paul (25 September 2015). "Sean Quigley misses out on golden boot after technicality". The Times. Retrieved 4 March 2020.(subscription required)
5. "All-star nomination for Fermanagh player". The Fermanagh Herald. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
6. "Characters in the GAA". Balls.ie. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
7. Loughran, Neil (8 March 2016). "Fermanagh's Sean Quigley banned after turning off lights during Armagh spat". The Irish News. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
8. "Armagh and Fermanagh fined 5,000 Euro after Athletic Grounds row". BBC Sport. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
9. "GList: Fermanagh's top performers since 2008". Gaelic Life. 25 October 2021.
10. "Seamus Quigley joins his brothers Sean & Conor in Erne squad". BBC Sport. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2020.