C. J. Molloy

C. J. Molloy, born in 1989, is an American Gaelic footballer who has played for New York in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. The son of Connie Molloy, a manager of and former player with the New York team, he is a native of Hawthorne, about thirty miles north of Manhattan, and a nephew of Anthony Molloy, the captain of the 1992 All-Ireland winners. He accepted a basketball scholarship to Union College but kept returning to the Bronx for football training and gave up basketball to concentrate on football, and he later completed an MBA at Iona College. After playing for New York teams at the Feile under-14 competitions in 2002 and 2003 he made his senior debut in 2008 against Leitrim, joined the Donegal county panel in 2014 and left it in 2015 struggling with injuries, and has since played club football for Ard an Rátha.