Finbar McConnell is a former

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by ki ...

er who played for the Tyrone county team. He was Tyrone's first-choice goalkeeper throughout most of the nineties, and played in the

1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final The 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 108th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1995 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland. It was ...

. He set a Tyrone record for being the first Tyrone player to win four Ulster Championship medals in 2001.

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''Hogan Stand'' Magazine interview from early in his career
( 1992)

1954 births Living people Gaelic football goalkeepers Irish international rules football players Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Tyrone-gaelic-football-bio-stub