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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Born | 1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)[1] | ||
| Occupation | Accountant[1][2] | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
?–2019 | St Eunan's | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
200?–2010 | Donegal | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| NFL | 1 | ||
"What happened was that we [Dunne and Rory Kavanagh] were down at the Kilmacud Crokes 7s. We'd been up in Dublin. The nature of that, it's a gruelling weekend. So we'd a good few days. We were still feeling quite sore on the Monday. We both landed down to a trial game… I never got any explanation on it from Jim [McGuinness]. There was no fallout… You have to remember Donegal at the time hadn't been too successful and were in a really poor place. So I probably didn't think I was going to be missing out on anything. There is no doubt about it, it was bad timing. And it was disappointing to miss out on Ulster and All-Ireland medals. But that's football, that's life".
– Dunne speaking in 2021 on the abrupt end to his playing days with his county[3]
Conall Dunne (born 1983 or 4) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for St Eunan's and the Donegal county team.
Dunne played his club football for St Eunan's.[4] Among his fans were Joe Kernan.[5]
He had taken over as the club's penalty taker by 2014.[2]
Dunne retired at the end of the 2019 season.[1]
Dunne played at senior level for the Donegal county team.[6]
He made his championship debut in 2002 in Donegal's All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Dublin. He did not make another appearance in the Championship for three years.[7]
He played in the 2006 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park and scored one point.[8]
He was one of three representatives from his club on the county panel that won the 2007 National Football League.[9]
He scored a goal against Laois in the 2010 National Football League.[10]
He scored a goal against Down in 2010.[7]
He lost his place in the panel when Jim McGuinness took over as manager in late 2010.[3] Himself and Rory Kavanagh arrived to an early trial match but a misunderstanding led them to forget their sportswear.[3] Kavanagh located the necessary in the car park, Dunne could not.[3]
Dunne is a chartered accountant (part of the body Chartered Accountants Ireland) and succeeded Niall Doherty (brother of Eamonn Doherty) as treasurer of his club.[1][11][12] He trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and went on to work in the food industry, later establishing an accountancy practice (Conall Dunne & Co).[13]
CONALL Dunne could've been forgiven for thinking that the chance to make a mark on Ulster in the St Eunan's colours had eluded him, but the 31-year-old accountant sees a big chance for the black and amber this year.
St Eunan's' Conal Dunne is a happy man after their victory over Clonoe
Rangers came back strongly against St Eunan's when they found themselves 0-6 to 0-2 down and eventually secured their passage into the final although I was most impressed with Rory Kavanagh, David McGinley, Ross Wherity, Kevin Rafferty, John Haran and Conal Dunne in the Donegal champions' line-up.
Conal Dunne, taking a pass from Rory Kavanagh, may have opened the scoring, but the midlanders were quickly back level thanks to a score from distance from Daniel St Ledger.
Former treasurer, Niall Doherty, was named club person of the year. Announcing the local accountant as the recipient of the award, former chairman, Cathal Greene, thanked Niall for his huge efforts in his role as treasurer.The photograph at the bottom of the page is then captioned: "Eamonn Doherty receives Club Person of the Year Award on behalf of his brother Niall from Club Chairman John Haran", with Eamonn Doherty on the left and John Haran on the right.
Having trained as an accountant with Price, Waterhouse Cooper,[sic] Mr Dunne held a number of senior financial roles in the food industry before setting up his own accountancy practice more than two years ago.