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Northern Irish footballer (1882–1916)

Bernard Donaghey
Personal information
Full name Bernard Donaghey
Date of birth (1882-12-23)23 December 1882
Place of birth Derry, Ireland
Date of death 1 July 1916(1916-07-01) (aged 33)
Place of death near Beaumont-Hamel, France
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1900–1902 Derry Celtic (3)
1902 Ulster
Belfast Celtic (8)
1904 Glentoran 2
1904–1905 Hibernian 15 (8)
1905 Derry Celtic
1905–1906 Manchester United 3 (0)
1906–1907 Derry Celtic
1907–1908 Burnley 5 (2)
0000–1914 Derry Celtic (17)
1914 Dumbarton Harp
International career
1902–1905 Irish League XI 2 (0)
1902 Ireland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bernard Donaghey (23 December 1882 – 1 July 1916), sometimes known as Barney Donaghey, was an Irish professional footballer, who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Burnley and Manchester United. He also played in the Scottish League for Hibernian and in his native Ireland for Derry Celtic (four spells), Ulster, Belfast Celtic and Glentoran. Donaghey was capped by Ireland at international level and represented the Irish League.

Personal life

Donaghey was a Catholic and was married. Prior to the First World War, Donaghey was a reservist in the British Army and in early 1915, during the second year of the war, he enlisted as a private in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He saw action at Gallipoli and was wounded in the head by shrapnel and evacuated to a hospital in Tanta, Egypt. After being deployed to the Western Front in 1916, Donaghey was killed on the first day on the Somme, during his battalion's attack on German trench lines and the Y-Ravine strongpoint, south of Beaumont-Hamel. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

Honours

Derry Celtic

Career statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Glentoran 1903–04 Irish League 2 0 0 0 2 0
Hibernian 1904–05 Scottish First Division 15 8 2 0 17 8
Manchester United 1905–06 Second Division 3 0 0 0 3 0
Burnley 1907–08 Second Division 5 2 0 0 5 2
Career total 23 10 2 0 25 10

References

  1. ^ Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 83. ISBN 978-1905891610.
  2. ^ "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ^ "Bernard Donaghey". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Barney Donaghey". nifootball.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  5. ^ "July 1, 1916, and the Derry Catholic Dead". Derry Journal. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  6. Bernard Donaghey at National-Football-Teams.com
  7. "Bernard Donaghey". 11v11.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  8. "The players we lost in war". ManUtd.com. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  9. "Football Remembers – The 1914 Christmas Truce Education pack" (PDF). p. 102. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  10. "Hibernian Player Bernard Donaghy Details". Retrieved 5 December 2017.

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