Sport Gaelic football Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Donegal titles 1 | Occupation Fitness instructor Name Barry Dunnion Years Club All irelands 1 | |
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Barry Dunnion is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club Four Masters and the Donegal senior inter-county team. He plays at wing-back.
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Club
Dunnion won the Donegal Senior Football Championship with his club in 2003.
Inter-county
Dunnion was first called up to the senior team by Brian McEniff for winter training in 2003. He played in the 2006 Ulster Senior Football Championship Final at Croke Park and scored one point.
Nominated for an All Star award in 2006, he has recently been hampered by injury which caused him to miss Donegal's 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship success. A member of the Donegal team that won the National Football League in 2007, playing from the start to the end in the final against Mayo, His injury nightmare began during the 2007 Ulster Senior Football Championship. Having played all the way through the league, including the final won by Donegal, as well as the Ulster Senior Football Championship quarter-final against Armagh, he tore his groin kicking a ball while running out at Clones for the semi-final against Tyrone. In the following years he underwent four major operations, three on the groin and one on the posterior cruciate he ruptured while playing for his club.
He hasn't played competitively for Donegal since the opening 2011 National Football League game against Sligo.