Gary O'Donnell (Gaelic footballer)

Gary O'Donnell, born on 6 January 1988, is an Irish sportsperson who plays inter-county Gaelic football for Galway. He is a first cousin of the double All-Ireland winning former Galway footballer and two-time All Star Jarlath Fallon, and his parents are both from County Mayo, with uncles who have played football for that county at a number of levels. He first played football with St Colman's, Gort, and also played hurling in his youth, on the same underage teams as the later Galway senior players Aidan Harte and Greg Lally. When the Gort football team disbanded in 2009 he moved to Tuam Stars, the club his Fallon cousins played for. He was an unused substitute in Galway's 2008 Connacht final victory over Mayo and made his inter-county debut in 2009.