Cian Mulligan ( , ; born 4 March 1996) is an Irish

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er who plays for Gaoth Dobhair and the Donegal county team. He scored two goals in the

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, a competition which his county team won. He also scored a goal in the

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, a competition which his club won.

Playing career

Club

Mulligan won a Donegal Senior Football Championship medal with his club in

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, scoring three points in the final. He then played during Gaoth Dobhair's first ever Ulster Senior Club Football Championship-winning campaign later in

, a run which involved a quarter final defeat of Cargin (a game in which Mulligan scored a goal and a point), a semi-final defeat of eleven-time winners Crossmaglen Rangers (a game in which Mulligan scored a point), and culminated in the club defeating

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(who had won the competition on four previous occasions), the last two of these games occurring at Healy Park in

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. Mulligan scored a point in the Ulster final, vital as the sides were separated by one point in the end, following

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Inter-county

Mulligan won the 2014 Ulster Minor Football Championship title with Donegal; they defeated

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in the final. He played in the

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final loss to Kerry, scoring one point. He made a substitute appearance in the 2015 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship final loss to Tyrone. First featuring at senior level for his county under the management of Rory Gallagher, Mulligan started against

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and against

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during Donegal's Division One campaign in the

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. Under the management of

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, Mulligan made a substitute appearance against

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in the preliminary round of the

, scoring a goal as his county progressed to the quarter-final. He made another substitute appearance against

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in that quarter-final, scoring another goal as his county progressed to the semi-final. He made another substitute appearance in the final and scored a point to help Donegal to victory. He opted out of inter-county football for the 2019 season but returned ahead of the 2020 season. He was not part of the panel during the 2022 season.

Personal life

Mulligan emigrated in 2023.

Honours

;Donegal *

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* Ulster Under-21 Football Championship runner-up: 2015 * All-Ireland Minor Football Championship runner-up:

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* Ulster Minor Football Championship: 2014 ;Gaoth Dobhair * Ulster Senior Club Football Championship:

* Donegal Senior Football Championship:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mulligan, Cian 1996 births Living people Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaoth Dobhair Gaelic footballers