Paddy McConigley

Paddy McConigley is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Donegal and, before that, London. He currently plays for The Railyard Football Club in Kilkenny, where he has won two Kilkenny Senior Football Championships in 2015 and 2016.

He was a member of the Donegal team that won the 2007 National Football League, and started in the final against Mayo. Months later, while on a team bonding trip in Milford, he was shot in the eye and blinded. His vision never recovered and he never played for Donegal again.

He has one son.

He carried on playing locally and won a Donegal Intermediate Football Championship in 2009. He won an All-Ireland Gaeltacht title in 2012.

He played club football in Donegal until the conclusion of the 2014 season, then he and his family relocated to Kilkenny and he began playing for Railyard.