John Joe Doherty

John Joe Doherty, born in 1968, is a former Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played for the Naomh Columba club and the Donegal county team and later managed Donegal. He won the 1987 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship with Donegal and, at the age of 22, captained Naomh Columba to the 1990 Donegal Senior Football Championship. He started the 1990 Ulster Senior Football Championship final against Armagh, which Donegal won, and was part of the Donegal team that won the county's first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1992, starting the final against Dublin. He was selected as an All Star in 1993 and captained the county team in 1998. In November 2008, after the resignation of Brian McIver, he was confirmed as Donegal senior manager, and he resigned in 2010 when Jim McGuinness replaced him. He had earlier managed his club Naomh Columba, Naomh Mhura and the Donegal under-21 team.