Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Goalkeeper | ||
Born |
28/11/1996 Derry | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Occupation | Corporate Sales Executive | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
201?–2020 2020– |
Naomh Colmcille Gaoth Dobhair | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
201?– | Donegal |
Michael Lynch (born 1996/7) is an Irish goalkeeper who plays Gaelic football for Gaoth Dobhair (and formerly Naomh Colmcille) and for the Donegal county team.
He is from St Johnston.[1]
Lynch played at midfield in Naomh Colmcille's run to the 2015 Donegal Intermediate Football Championship final, which the club lost to Réalt na Mara.[2] He began the campaign as a substitute for the injured Ryan McErlean in the first minute of Naomh Colmcille's win in the quarter-final of that competition.[3]
Lynch played his club football in midfield for Naomh Colmcille before transferring to Gaoth Dobhair in 2020.[1] The then Gaoth Dobhair manager Mervyn O'Donnell said Lynch had been living nearby since the start of 2020, had attended training and was close to fellow Donegal player Odhrán McFadden-Ferry.[4] He had won the 2017 Donegal Junior Football Championship and Ulster Junior Club Football Championship with his former club.[1][5] He scored three points (including one '45) in the Ulster Club JFC final.[6]
His transfer to Gaoth Dobhair led to a three-month suspension due to him playing for his new club before he was officially allowed to do so.[7][8]
Lynch is a former underage goalkeeper for League of Ireland association football team Derry City.[9]
Under the management of Declan Bonner, Lynch became an understudy to Shaun Patton and Paul Durcan in the senior inter-county panel.[8] He made his senior debut for Donegal against Derry in the 2020 Dr McKenna Cup.[1]
Lynch made a substitute appearance in the 2022 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship qualifier loss to Armagh, after regular goalkeeper Patton was shown a black card.[10]