Noel Hegarty is an Irish former
Gaelic football
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er who played for
Naomh Columba
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and the
Donegal county team.
He played as a defender.
[ According to '']The Irish Times
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'', centre back was his best position.[
Hegarty made his championship debut for Donegal in 1991.][ He was a member of Donegal's ]1992
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All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning team. He started at left corner back in the 1992 All-Ireland Final as Donegal defeated Dublin
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by a scoreline of 0–18 to 0–14. He and Tony Boyle were the least experienced of Donegal's men on the pitch that day.[
Hegarty broke his nose in the final of the 1994–95 National Football League. He ]captain
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ed his county in 1996.Mickey Moran
Mickey Moran is a former Gaelic footballer and manager-coach, who has been manager of Kilcoo since 2019, with a background as an inter-county manager who most recently managed the Leitrim county team. He played at senior level for the Derry ...
's first game in charge of Donegal, a league win at home to Offaly
County Offaly (; ga, Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe. It was formerly known as King's County, in hono ...
in October 2000.
With Naomh Columba, he won one Donegal Senior Football Championship
The Donegal Senior Football Championship (abbreviated as Donegal SFC) is an annual football competition organised by Donegal GAA and contested by the highest-level clubs, to determine the best team in County Donegal. Since 2016, it has been known ...
title in 1990.
He is from Glencolmcille
''Gleann Cholm Cille'', anglicised as Glencolumbkille or Glencolmcille, is a small district on the Atlantic coast of southwest County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Named after Saint Colm Cille (Columba), it is also a civ ...
.[ He has also worked with the club's underage teams.]
References
External links
Noel Hegarty
at GAAinfo.com
Donegal Democrat Article
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers
Gaelic football backs
Gaelic football player-managers
Naomh Columba Gaelic footballers
Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football)