Raymond Gallagher (Gaelic footballer)

Raymond Gallagher (born 1970s) is a former Gaelic footballer who played for several clubs and the Fermanagh county team.

His father Raymond Snr, a farmer, died in 2007.[1][2] He was survived by his wife Mary, his only son and three daughters.[2] The politician Tommy Gallagher is an uncle of Gallagher's, on his father's side.[2] Fellow Fermanagh footballers Rory and Ronan Gallagher are cousins of his.[1]

From 1986, he attended secondary school at St Michael's College, Enniskillen, where he won the 1992 MacRory Cup.[1] He then played minor and under-21 football for his county, winning the 1994 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship.[1] He played senior football while still a minor in 1993, manager Hugh McCabe giving him his debut, and won an All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship, Dr McKenna Cup and National Football League Division Four.[1]

He sustained many injuries, first an athletic pubalgia as a teenager in 1993, a cruciate injury in 1994 which hampered his progress for the next two years, and two discs in his back which he had to have surgery on in 2001.[1]

He played on until 2003, moving to Dublin to play with St Brigid's, but missing out on Fermanagh's run to the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final.

He did captain Fermanagh in 2003.[3]

He also played for Donegal Boston.[4]