Martin Carney

Martin Carney is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played inter-county football for Donegal and later for Mayo, and who went on to become a familiar broadcaster. Born in Bundoran, County Donegal, he grew up in Ballyshannon and was educated at St Eunan's College in Letterkenny, where he played for the school team; he is one of three twentieth-century footballers to play for the Donegal county team while still attending that college. After his playing days he worked with the Mayo senior side as a statistician and video analyst when John O'Mahony became manager, managed the Mayo under-21 team to the All-Ireland finals of 1994 and 1995, and served on the selection team for the International Rules Series in 2002 and 2003. He later became a commentator for RTE and an analyst on The Sunday Game, and he is a former school principal in Swinford. In May 2012 the Irish Independent named him in its selection of Donegal's greatest team of the previous fifty years.