Finlay MacRae (born 1986) is a

shinty Shinty ( gd, camanachd, iomain) is a team game played with sticks and a ball. Shinty is now played mainly in the Scottish Highlands and amongst Highland migrants to the big cities of Scotland, but it was formerly more widespread in Scotland, an ...

player from

Kintail Kintail ( gd, Cinn Tàile) is an area of mountains in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, located in the Highland Council area. It consists of the mountains to the north of Glen Shiel and the A87 road between the heads of Loch Duich and Loch Clu ...

who plays for

Kinlochshiel Kinlochshiel Shinty Club is a shinty club based in Balmacara, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Lochalsh, Scotland. The club has two sides, a senior team which competes in the Marine Harvest Premiership and a reserve team in North Division One. Kinlochs ...

. He is a Scottish International as well as Player of the Year 200

Playing career

MacRae, who plays alongside his brothers Keith and Joh

is considered one of the finest players of his generation and won the Player of the Year title in 2008 despite playing in North Division One (shinty), North Division One. He has often been played in defence by Shiel but is renowned as a dangerous forwar

He made his debut for Scotland national shinty team, Scotland at the age of 2

Outside Shinty

MacRae's day job is as an electrician for Norbord in

Inverness Inverness (; from the gd, Inbhir Nis , meaning "Mouth of the River Ness"; sco, Innerness) is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands. Histori ...

. He is also engaged in charity work with

Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), generally referred to as Habitat for Humanity or Habitat, is a US non-governmental, and nonprofit organization which was founded in 1976 by couple Millard and Linda Fuller. Habitat for Humanity is a Ch ...

. His favourite person to go boozing with is Fionnlagh Byrne. Fionnlagh's chat make's him laugh after a hard game of shinty.

External links

Kinlochshiel Shinty Club
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