Brian Dooher
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Brian Ó Dúichar | ||
| Sport | Gaelic Football | ||
| Position | Right Half Forward | ||
| Born |
10 August 1975 Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
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| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | ||
| Occupation | Veterinarian | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Clann na nGael | |||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
| 1993-1996 | UCD | ||
| College titles | |||
| Sigerson titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1995-2011 | Tyrone | 48 | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Ulster titles | 6 (1996 2001 2003 2007 2009 2010) | ||
| All-Irelands | 3 (2003 2005 2008) | ||
| NFL | 2 (2002 2003) | ||
| All Stars | 3 (2003 2005 2008) | ||
Brian Dooher is an Irish sportsperson from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He was a member of the Tyrone senior Gaelic football team between 1995 and 2011.
He has won three All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, five Ulster Senior Football Championship and two National League titles with the county. He has also won three All Star Awards, and six Ulster All-Stars - the joint leader with Kieran McGeeney and Steven McDonnell.
Dooher plays his club football for Clann na nGael.
Dooher is renowned for his hardworking playing style, often doing the gritty, unfashionable work, like picking up the ball in defence, to feed the forward players. He is also an accurate point scorer. Although he usually starts in the half-forward line, his roaming nature means he is rarely ever stationed there for very long. His contributions to the game do not go unnoticed by his team-mates, as Sean Cavanagh remarked in 2003 how "I wouldn't be able to [play to my strengths] without Brian's workrate." In the same article, the Irish Examiner said, "it would be no exaggeration to call him the hardest working footballer in Ireland."
Dooher is a former pupil of Loughash Primary School (co. Tyrone)and St Columb's College in Derry City. He later attended UCD in Dublin. He is a practicing vet in Derry.
Dooher made his Senior debut for Tyrone in the National League in 1995 against Kildare. In 1996, his first full year as a Senior, Dooher helped Tyrone win the Ulster Senior Football Championship. Tyrone then advanced to play Meath in the All-Ireland semi-final, but were defeated. Dooher was one of several Tyrone players, along with Ciaran McBride, Jody Gormley, Chris Lawn and Peter Canavan who suffered injuries at the hands of what many Tyrone fans perceived as heavy-handed tactics by Meath. Meath defender, Martin O'Connell stood on Dooher's head while he had been felled. During the half-time interval, Dooher had to receive staples in his head, and played the rest of the game heavily bandaged. Despite this, he won the Ulster GAA Writers Player of the Year Award, at the age of just 20.
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