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Gaelic football manager From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gary McDaid is a former Gaelic football manager and referee. As a club coach and manager, he contributed to three Donegal Senior Football Championship wins for Glenswilly GAA: twice as manager or joint-manager (2011, 2013) and once as coach to Michael Canning (2016).[1]
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As a manager and coach of Glenswilly, he helped that team to two Donegal Senior Football Championships (2011 and 2013).[2][3] During the 2011 season, McDaid criticised the county board for some scheduling decisions.[4][5]
He did not manage the team in 2012,[6][7] and played with the club's reserves.[8] Returning as manager in 2013,[6] the club won the All-County Football League Division Two title.[9] McDaid was part of Michael Canning's backroom team in 2016 as Glenswilly won their third county title.[10]
As of 2019, McDaid was registered as a referee.[11]
McDaid was involved in coaching Donegal underage squads and worked under Joe McBrearty with Donegal's under-21 football team.[10] In December 2014, McDaid joined the senior Donegal county team as a selector under manager Rory Gallagher.[12][13] He stayed for one season, standing aside from the role in October 2015, citing family commitments.[14]
In August 2017, some outlets included McDaid in list of potential candidates to succeed Gallagher as Donegal senior manager.[15][16] He was not selected for the post and in November 2017 McDaid took the managerial role with Donegal's new under-20 football team. Eamon McGee and Brian Roper were in his back-room team.[17][18] He continued as the under-20 manager in 2018.[19]
McDaid resigned in September 2019, stating that "results had not been as good as they had hoped".[20] To complete an expected third year in the role, he would reportedly have needed to "face an interview for a post he already he held [sic]".[20]
Writing ahead of the 2020 Donegal Senior Football Championship, Gerry McLaughlin of Donegallive.ie wrote of McDaid that: "There are few more articulate, astute or acute observers of Donegal GAA than one Gary McDaid from Glenswilly. He will always be remembered for masterminding a great victory for the Glen over hot favourites Kilcar in the county final of 2016".[21]
In 2016, in response to criticism of Glenswilly's performance in a low-scoring game, McDaid reportedly hit out at what he described as "armchair critics".[22]
As of 2013, McDaid was teaching PE at St Eunan's College.[8]
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