Rory Beggan

Rory Beggan is a Gaelic footballer from Scotstown, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland, who plays for the Monaghan county team.[1] In November 2018, Beggan won his first All-Star award.[2]

Rory Beggan
Personal information
Sport Gaelic Football
Position Goalkeeper
Born Scotstown, Republic of Ireland
Club(s)
Years Club
2011–
 Scotstown
Club titles
Monaghan titles 6
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
 Monaghan
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles 2
All Stars 1

History

Beggan plays his club gaelic football for Scotstown GAA.[3] Beggan was first called up to play inter-county football for Monaghan in 2011 by Eamon McEneaney.[4] Whilst playing county football, he gained a reputation as a goalkeeper with a long kick and was able to score points from inside his own half. Later he was designated as Monaghan's free kick taker. Keen to practice his free kicks, in 2018 he disguised himself as a member of the backroom team in order to get more practice time with Queen's University Belfast's minors team in Northern Ireland.[5]

Between 2011 and 2018, he had scored 0-43 points, the joint highest for a goalkeeper.[4] Beggan's style of play has been viewed as an evolution of the goalkeeper position being more involved in attacking and scoring moves as ten years prior to 2019, there had been no points scored by any goalkeeper in All-Ireland competition.[4] In 2018, he was named as an All-Ireland All-Star, despite missing a last minute scoring attempt against Tyrone in the 2018 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals.[6] He was invited to travel to Philadelphia with the rest of the All-Stars but declined in favour of playing for Scotstown in their Ulster Senior Club Football Championship semi-final.[7]

Honours

References
  1. "Rory Beggan leading Monaghan from the back". RTE. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. "Donnchadh Boyle: 'It's an imperfect All Stars team and an imperfect system - but it's the best we have'". Irish Independent. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  3. Farrell, Sinead (3 August 2018). "'He's moving his game on to a new level. Not every team has a weapon like him from free-kicks'". The42.ie. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. Watters, Andy (24 December 2019). "Like all Monaghan players Rory Beggan has to start from scratch". The Irish News. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. Kiely, Ben (21 May 2018). "Rory Beggan pulled a very sly trick on Monaghan minors to get some extra free kick training in". SportsJOE.ie. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. "Conor McManus: No need for Rory Beggan to apologise". Irish Times. 2 November 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. "My club comes before a GAA All-Stars trip". Irish News. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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