Donal Vaughan

Donal Vaughan is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played inter-county football for Mayo. English Wikipedia gives his year of birth as 1988 or 1989. He played his club football with his home club Ballinrobe until December 2017, when he moved to Castlebar Mitchels, the town where he lived and worked, after Ballinrobe were relegated to the intermediate ranks. At county level he started at centre back in two All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals, the 2012 decider, which Mayo lost to Donegal by 0-13 to 2-11, and the 2013 final, which they lost to Dublin by 2-12 to 1-14. He was sent off in the 2017 All-Ireland final after a reckless challenge on Dublin's John Small, and Dublin went on to win, a dismissal that some Mayo supporters blamed for the defeat. He announced his retirement from the inter-county game in January 2021. Outside football he owns a chain of shoe shops in Mayo called Vaughan Shoes.