Eamonn Doherty


Eamonn Doherty is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Naomh Adhamhnáin and the Donegal county team.
He is a secondary school teacher in Buncrana.

Playing career

Club

Eamonn Doherty started his club's winning senior county finals in 2007, 2009 and 2012 and came on as a substitute in 2008. This was all by the age of 24 and national media referred to him as "one of the most decorated players in the north-west".

Inter-county

Doherty played for Donegal throughout the 2010 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship campaign, a competition which Donegal won. He then played in the final of the 2010 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship, which Donegal narrowly lost to Dublin. Himself, Antoin McFadden, James Carroll and Declan Walsh transferred to Boston for the summer in 2011.
McGuinness gave Doherty his senior league debut came against Dublin in Ballybofey in the final game of the 2013 National Football League, having only called him up days earlier. He made an immediate impact, colliding with the referee, leaving him flattened in a heap and taking him out of the game.
Doherty started Rory Gallagher's first match in charge of the county, a 2015 Dr McKenna Cup away defeat to Derry. Having flattened the referee in a heap and taken him out of the game, Doherty did not play in the National Football League again until 2015, his second appearance also coming against Dublin. That year, he featured in six of Donegal's eight National Football League Division One fixtures and started at Croke Park against Galway in the Championship when Karl Lacey did not recover from an injury in time.
Though restricted to substitute appearances for much of the competition, Doherty lifted the Anglo-Celt Cup as Donegal secured the 2018 Ulster Senior Football Championship.
He made a late substitute appearance in the 2019 Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final victory over Fermanagh, though he did not feature in the semi-final victory over Tyrone or in the final against Cavan, which Donegal won. Then, with Neil McGee injured, Doherty came in from the start in Donegal's 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final meeting with Kerry at Croke Park.

Personal life

Doherty is from Letterkenny. He took up a position as a secondary school teacher in Buncrana, having completed his degree at Dublin City University in 2013. In his first year as a qualified teacher one of his students was Darach O'Connor, who started the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
Doherty's brother Niall, an accountant, has served as treasurer of the St Eunan's club.
As of June 2020, Doherty lives in Letterkenny.

Honours

;Donegal
;Naomh Adhamhnáin