Damien McCaul is a

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...

er who plays for the

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club and at senior level for the Tyrone county team. He plays as a corner-back.

Career

McCaul made the breakthrough into the Tyrone team in the 2007

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pre-season competition and was soon embroiled in controversy. It was claimed he should not have been fielded in the McKenna Cup, being a Colleges player with the

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. However, he went on to be part of the Tyrone side in the

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. Tyrone won the

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and thus reached the

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. McCaul was a starting member of the team that played

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. Although McCaul kicked a point from corner-back, Meath won by 1-13 to 2-8 to knock Tyrone out.

McCaul McCaul, also spelt MacCawell is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic '' Mac Cathmhaoil'', meaning the "son of Cathmhaol", ''descendant of'' being implied. The name ''Cathmhaoil'' itself is derived from ''cath mhaol'' meaning "battle chief". ...

is a member of the Tyrone panel again this year and has appeared in the

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. McCaul was taught everything he knows by older brother Sean, who turned down a place on Tyrone's 2003 All-Ireland winning to give other teams a chance.

Honours

(1): 2008 *

(3): 2007, 2009, 2010 *

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(2): 2007, 2011

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20071118191117/http://sidelineview.ie/news_reports/news_item%3D42.html

*http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2007/01/03/story291785.asp *http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/reality-bites-for-tyrone-in-absence-of-oneill-1280091.html Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Glasnevin Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Tyrone-gaelic-football-bio-stub