Michael Carroll is an Irish

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er who plays for

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and the Donegal county team.

Playing career

Club

Carroll's parent club is Gaoth Dobhair. He went to

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for the summer in 2018 where, alongside county teammate Eoin McHugh, he won the

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with

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. Carroll won a

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medal with his club Gaoth Dobhair in

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. He then played during Gaoth Dobhair's first ever

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-winning campaign later in

, a run which involved a quarter final defeat of Cargin (a game in which Carroll scored a goal and three points), a semi-final defeat of eleven-time winners

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, 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

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. Carroll thought he had won the Ulster final with a point in normal time but the referee ruled it out as a "throw ball" foul by Carroll's teammate who passed him the ball;

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was required to separate the sides.

Inter-county

Caroll won the 2014

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title with Donegal, scoring a point in the final against

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. He then played in the

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loss to

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. A goal from Carroll helped Donegal to the 2017

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. First featuring for his county at senior level under the management of

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, Carroll made a number of appearances during Donegal's Division One campaign in the 2016 National Football League: first he started the league opener against Down, then he made a substitute appearance against

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in the second round of fixtures, started against

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in the third round of fixtures and, finally, made a substitute appearance against

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in the sixth round of fixtures. In the

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Carroll scored a goal against

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to help Donegal to a draw. He made his senior championship debut in the quarter-final of the 2017 Ulster Senior Football Championship. He played a part in Donegal's opening goal (scored by fellow senior championship debutant

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) as his county defeated Antrim to progress to the semi-final. In that semi-final, a loss to Tyrone, Carroll scored his first senior championship goal. He was in

for the summer in 2018. He thus missed out on the

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, which Donegal won. Carroll made himself available for his county again in 2019. On the basis of his performances during the 2019 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Carroll returned to the Donegal senior panel ahead of the 2020 Dr McKenna Cup.

Honours

;Donegal *

: 2017 *

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runner-up:

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: 2014 ;Gaoth Dobhair *

;Donegal Boston *

: 2018

References

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