Liam MacIntyre (born 1983) 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

Oban Oban ( ; ' in Scottish Gaelic meaning ''The Little Bay'') is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William. During the tourist season, th ...

, Scotland. He currently plays for Fort William Shinty Club

Playing career

MacIntyre started out his career with

Oban Camanachd Oban Camanachd are a shinty team based in Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland who currently play in the MOWI Premiership. One of the oldest Camanachd clubs they were founded in 1889. The reserve team currently play in South Division One under t ...

, a club which his family has a long connection with. He then transferred to Fort William in 2006 and made an immediate impact, having been involved in that club's

Camanachd Cup The Camanachd Association Challenge Cup known as the Camanachd Cup (or less commonly the Scottish Cup) is the premier competition in the sport of shinty. It is one of the five trophies considered to be part of the Grand Slam in the sport of shin ...

wins. He then re-signed for Oban in 2008, but his second spell at the club was marred by major discipline problems, including several lengthy bans. He then re-signed for Fort in the midst of the 2010 season and was instrumental in man-marking Kingussie's Ronald Ross out of the 2010

Final victory by Fort. MacIntyre works as a mathematics teacher in South Lanarkshire at

Calderside Academy Calderside Academy is a Scottish secondary school in Blantyre. It was created by merging two local secondary schools (Blantyre High School and Earnock High School) on the land where Blantyre High School was. The school opened in January 2008 and ...

, Glasgow.

References

MacIntyre re-signs for Oban
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