Pascal Canavan 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 played in Tyrone's second All-Ireland Final appearance in 1995 and captained

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in 2002. He retired from inter-county football in 2002, following Tyrone's success in the

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. Pascal was a Religious Education teacher at St Ciaran's High School in Ballygawley. He has often been involved in GAA within the school as the under-18 manager, his greatest achievement with St Ciarans was winning the All-Ireland with his co-manager Brendan Traynor. Following their success as joint managers with St Ciaran's they now are joint managers of the Buncrana GAA club in Donegal. They got them promoted to Senior and are doing very well. His younger brother is Tyrone's most successful individual player,

Peter Canavan Peter Canavan (born 9 April 1971) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer, manager and pundit. He played inter-county football for Tyrone, and is one of the most decorated players in the game's history, winning two All-Ireland Senior Football ...

. He is now the manager of Armagh Division 1A champions Armagh Harps

Honours

Club * 6

Tyrone Senior Football Championship The Tyrone Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the LCC Group ''Tyrone Senior Football Championship'') is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Tyrone GAA clubs. The Tyrone County Board of the Ga ...

1993 1994 1997 2000 2002 2006 * 2

Ulster Senior Club Football Championship The Ulster Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition played between the top clubs in Ulster GAA. The trophy awarded to the winners is the Seamus McFerran Cup ( ga, Corn Shéamuis Mhic Fearáin). The winners and th ...

1992 2002 County * 3

Ulster Senior Football Championship The Ulster Senior Football Championship is an inter-county competition for Gaelic football teams in the province of Ulster. It is organised by the Ulster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and begins in early May. The final is us ...

1995 1996 2001 * 1

Division 1 2002 Awards * 1 Irish News Ulster All-Star 1996

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Errigal Ciarán Gaelic footballers Tyrone inter-county Gaelic footballers People from Ballygawley, County Tyrone {{Tyrone-gaelic-football-bio-stub