Columba McDyer

Columba McDyer (13 January 1921 to 18 September 2001) was a Gaelic footballer who played for Cavan and Donegal. From Glenties, he played as a centre half-forward and was on the Cavan team that won the 1947 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final at the Polo Grounds in New York City, which made him the first Donegal man to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal. He then returned to Donegal and his native Glenties, where he coached the Donegal senior team for a number of years and later managed the county. He also won a Railway Cup medal with Ulster in 1942 and played in the same competition with Connacht, and he was an early influence on Jim McGuinness. He was inducted into the Donegal Sports Star Awards' Hall of Fame in 1987.