Owen Mulligan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Corner Forward | ||
| Born |
3 June 1981 Tyrone |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Nickname | Mugsy | ||
| Occupation | Publican | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Cookstown Fr. Rock's | |||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| Tyrone | 37 | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Ulster titles | 4 | ||
| All-Irelands | 3 | ||
| NFL | 2 | ||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
Eoin "Mugsy" Mulligan (sometimes spelled Owen Mulligan) is an Irish Gaelic football player. He helped Tyrone win the 2003, 2005 and 2008 All-Ireland Finals and plays with Dean Teague Cookstown for the Fr. Rocks GAA Club.
His playing style is one of a traditional forward, collecting the ball from the half forwards and midfield, to take scores from play, and is one of Tyrone's free kick takers, along with Stephen O'Neill. He can play very well with the ball in hand, and his pace means that he is difficult to mark.
His instantly recognisable bleached-blonde hair, coupled with his talent on the pitch, marked him out as one of his generation's bright young stars of football.
At underage level, Mulligan's success is prolific. He achieved notable success with Cookstown Father Rock's from Under 12 upwards, collecting county leagues and championships. As an Under-18, he reached the All-Ireland final in 1997 and 1998, (which includes two Ulster titles), scoring a goal in the 1998 final, and was part of the Tyrone Vocational Schools team that won the All-Ireland in 1998, although a broken arm prevented him playing in the final. As a pupil at Holy Trinity College, Cookstown, where he was a pupil of former Tyrone Footballing great Peter Canavan, Mulligan won the Tyrone, Ulster and All-Ireland Championships also in 1998.
Eoin is a member of the current generation of Tyrone players that have enjoyed success on the All-Ireland stage. He was part of the Tyrone team that won the All-Irelands in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
He made an immediate splash to his senior career against local rivals Armagh by scoring a goal in the first thirty seconds. However, his contribution to the game was stifled after that and he was replaced at half time.
His best-remembered performance is probably against Dublin in the drawn All-Ireland Quarter Final in 2005, when he scored what the Irish Independent described as "what can definitely be called one of the greatest goals of all time." When Tyrone were on the backfoot, Mulligan picked up a pass from Stephen O'Neill on the 45m line. He turned his marker, and started heading goalward, dummying two more defenders out of the tackle, and shooting the ball past an oncoming Dublin player and the goalie to rocket the net. This performance almost single-handedly earned him the Ulster writers Player of the Month award.
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