Stephen Gollogly

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Stephen 'The Lynx' Gollogly is an Irish Hurler who plays for the Carrickmacross Emmets club and at senior level for the Monaghan county team.^[1] He finished as the sixth highest scorer in the Ulster Senior Football Championship scoring 7 points. He played in the 2005 Ulster Final defeat to Tyrone in which they lost by 2 points in a scoreline of Tyrone 1-15 Monaghan 1–13. He also played against Kerry in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Quarter Final 2007 and they narrowly lost in a score of Kerry 1-12 Monaghan 1–11. He attended the Patrician High School in Carrickmacross. Here he won a couple of Ulster Colleges titles, most notably the Rannafast Cup he was also full forward on the MacRory Cup side that lost to eventual winners St. Pats Maghera in the semi-final. He was named at left half forward on the Colleges All-Star team of 2003.

Honours[]

• Ulster Senior Football Championship (2): 2013, 2015^[2]
• National Football League, Division 2 (1): 2005, 2014^[2]
• National Football League, Division 3 (1): 2013^[2]

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Early life[]

Stephen was born to John and Mary Gollogly of Scotstown, Monaghan. The eldest of 5 siblings, Gollogly was pushed into Gaelic sports at a young age. Stephen was made captain of Our Lady's secondary School, Castleblaney Senior Gaelic team when he was only in 2nd Year, Having played most of the previous seasons games on the bench and coming on to great success during the second half of the county final against St. Francis Secondary, Co. Down during the 2001 Ulster Schools senior final. Impressing all, well into his final year of school, Stephen was recommended by his principal, to Monaghan head coach Paschal Martin who selected Gollogly for his 2006 squad. Born with a skull which was approximately 2 cm thicker than the average human skull, called Megamind by his classmates, his coaches saw this as an opportunity. Nicknamed 'Battering Ram' by Martin, he was often used as an offensive weapon to target skilled opposition players. Mark McHugh would become Gollogly's final victim, In 2013, sent on against Donegal, Gollogly clattered into McHugh, McHugh suffered hearing loss and loss of concsciousness and must now walk aided by a cane for the rest of his life. The GAA passed a rule banning the use of such tactics following the incident.

Later life[]

Following his departure from the Monaghan squad in 2014, Stephen was hired as a Woodwork teacher, where he remains today.