Conor O'Donnell is an Irish

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er who plays for Carndonagh and the Donegal county team. He attended Carndonagh CS and played for Coláistí Inis Eoghain, a combination of two schools in Ulster competition. O'Donnell ruptured his

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in 2019. He played for his county at minor and under-20 level. O'Donnell made his senior inter-county debut in the last game of the 2020 National Football League, away to Kerry. He scored a goal in the 2022 National Football League fixture against Tyrone. It was a

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performance and O'Donnell was named in the GAA.ie Football Team of the Week and nominated for Footballer of the Week. O'Donnell scored a goal in the 2022 Ulster Senior Football Championship semi-final victory over

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, less than two minutes after taking to the field as a substitute. He also made a substitute appearance in the final. He made another substitute appearance in the

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qualifier loss to

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