Tommy McGuigan is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Ardboe O'Donnovan Rossa club and the Tyrone county team. He made his Ulster Championship debut for Tyrone on 20 May 2007, against

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Family

McGuigan's father

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won several club and inter-county titles (and an All-Star) and his older brother

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won three

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s while playing for Tyrone. In 2008, Tommy and Brian McGuigan picked up All-Ireland SFC winning medals and their older brother Frank also has an All-Ireland medal to his name as a result of being on the 2003 panel. Youngest brother Shay McGuigan was also a member of the Tyrone All-Ireland winning minor panel of 2008 and is in his second year playing for the Tyrone minors.

Playing career

In his championship debut against Fermanagh, McGuigan scored three points, as Tyrone were playing through difficult portions of the match. This performance was later dulled somewhat, "by the fact that he has picked up a broken wrist, and may miss the rest of the

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, should Tyrone progress". During the 2008 championship, McGuigan scored a vital goal at the start of the second half of the 2008 All-Ireland Final. He finished the season with a tally of 1-21 (24 points).

Twitter incidents

On 29 July 2014, Tommy McGuigan posted a tweet, which was described as antisemitic and which he later removed. McGuigan later apologised for the remark, claiming it was written as a joke and was meant as "nothing serious". McGuigan said he had passed his number onto a London-based Jewish columnist, who requested to speak with him in order to confront him over his comment. "I said it was meant as a joke, nothing serious. He agreed to let it go." On 3 August 2014, McGuigan posted a message with a racist and derogatory term for Hispanic people on his Twitter account: "“@ryanbulldog83 @McIlroyRory course. Sergio shitting his Spick pants. Happy Gilmore cunt”" in reference to Rory McIlroy passing Spanish golfer

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at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football) {{Tyrone-gaelic-football-bio-stub