Martin 'Marty' O'Reilly is an Irish

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er and hurler who plays for Seán MacCumhaills of

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and also, formerly, for the

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. He plays both football and hurling for his club.

Early life and education

O'Reilly attended college in

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and is now a primary school teacher in

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, Dublin. He is related to former Mayo footballers

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and

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. His father Terry, a former garda from ''Gleann Lára'' (

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: Glenlara), a

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near

Belmullet Belmullet (, IPA: �bʲeːlənˠˈwʊɾˠhəd̪ˠ is a coastal Gaeltacht town with a population of 1,019 on the Mullet Peninsula in the barony of Erris, County Mayo, Ireland. It is the commercial and cultural heart of the barony of Erris, wh ...

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, in the West of Ireland, is club chairman of Seán MacCumhaill's.

Playing career

Underage

He was held scoreless in the 2012 Corn Na Mac Leinn final by a somewhat tenacious defender. He played in the loss to

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in the 2013

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final. He played in the under-21 team that lost to Cavan again in the 2014 Ulster final.

Senior

Jim McGuinness: 2011–14

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first called O'Reilly into the Donegal county football team in late 2011. A member of the Donegal panel that won the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final against

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, he was an unused substitute in the final.

Bonner–McGuinness interim: 2014–17

O'Reilly started

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's first match in charge of the county, a 2015 Dr McKenna Cup away defeat to

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. He started the first match of the 2015 National Football League (also against Derry but at home), contributing 0–2 to the team's victory. He also started the next game against Dublin at Croke Park. He started the third fixture against Cork in

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and contributed 0–4 to the team's one-point victory. He also started the fourth fixture against Monaghan, the fifth fixture against Kerry, the sixth fixture against Tyrone and the seventh fixture against Mayo. O'Reilly made a substitute appearance in the 2015 Ulster Senior Football Championship final. He had previously started the preliminary round against Tyrone, the quarter-final against Armagh (scoring a goal) and the semi-final against Derry (scoring another goal, in the 45th minute). He also started the 2015 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifier defeat of Galway at Croke Park. O'Reilly started the opening fixture of the 2016 National Football League away to Down. He started the second fixture against Cork, a ten-point win in Ballyshannon, contributing 1–1 to the team's victory. He also started the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh fixtures against Mayo, Kerry, Roscommon, Dublin and Monaghan. Donegal qualified for the NFL semi-final. O'Reilly also started this game. O'Reilly started the 2016 Ulster Senior Football Championship final. He had previously started the quarter-final against Fermanagh (scoring 0–2) and the semi-final replay against Monaghan (scoring 0–3). O'Reilly also started the

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qualifier defeat of Cork at Croke Park and the next game against Dublin at the same venue. O'Reilly started the opening fixture of the

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against Kerry, scoring a point and winning a 24th-minute penalty which was converted by

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. He started the second fixture away to Roscommon, contributing 0–3 to the team's victory. He also started the third fixture against Dublin, the fifth fixture against Tyrone and the sixth fixture against Monaghan. He started the seventh fixture against Mayo and scored 0–1. O'Reilly started the 2017 Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final victory against Antrim and the semi-final loss to Tyrone, scoring 0–1 in the latter game. He also started the 2017 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifier defeat of Meath at

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. He then made a substitute appearance in the qualifier loss to Galway at

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and scored 0–2.

Declan Bonner: 2017–19

Under the management of Gallagher's successor

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, O'Reilly started in the opening fixture of the 2018 National Football League against

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, as well as the next game against

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. He made a late substitute appearance against

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in the third game and an earlier one against

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in the sixth game. O'Reilly withdrew from senior inter-county football ahead of the 2019 championship after experiencing limited match time during the 2019 National Football League. He had started the second fixture against Meath and scored a point but was substituted for Stephen McMenamin in the second half. McMenamin started each of the remaining fixtures in the competition. O'Reilly transferred to

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for the summer. He won the Philadelphia Championship there in August 2019, the Saturday before he returned to Ireland to play for his club Seán MacCumhaills in the 2019 Donegal Senior Football Championship.

Personal life

O'Reilly runs a sports shop in Ballybofey.

Honours

;Donegal *

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC) ( ga, Craobh Shinsir Peile na hÉireann) is the premier competition in Gaelic football. An annual tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), it is contested by the county ...

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* National Football League Division 2:

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;? * Philadelphia Championship: 2019

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:OReilly, Martin 1993 births Living people Alumni of Marino Institute of Education Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Dual players Irish schoolteachers Seán MacCumhaills Gaelic footballers Seán MacCumhaills hurlers Sportspeople from Letterkenny