Naoise Ó Baoill

Playing career Ó Baoill played for the Donegal senior team in 2017.

He typically plays as Gaoth Dobhair's number 11 (with photographs existing of him in that number jersey from a young age) and his diminutive stature allows him to "get down under an O'Neill's size five" and race towards the opposite side of the field of play. It gave him a full set of county championship medals at the age of just 21.

Ó Baoill then played during Gaoth Dobhair's first ever Ulster Senior Club Football Championship-winning campaign, a run which involved a quarter final defeat of Cargin (with Ó Baoill starting the game and being substituted in injury time), a semi-final defeat of eleven-time winners Crossmaglen Rangers (with Ó Baoill starting and completing the game), and culminated in the club defeating Scotstown (who had won the competition on four previous occasions), the last two of these games occurring at Healy Park in Omagh. Ó Baoill also started for Gaoth Dobhair in the Ulster final, scoring a point, vital as the sides were only separated by one point in the end, following extra time. Eamon McGee had queried before that game whether Ó Baoill would become the first Japanese man to play in the final of the Ulster Club Football Championship.

Personal life Ó Baoill moved to Canada in 2021. Then the COVID-19 pandemic happened, causing his trip to be delayed. While in Canada, he plays Gaelic for St Finnian's. Currently, Naoise is playing for a social Australian football league named the Yeah Nah Yeah's.

Honours Ulster Senior Club Football Championship: 2018 Donegal Senior Football Championship: 2018 Ulster Under-21 Club Football Championship: 2018 Donegal Under-21 Club Football Championship: 2018 Donegal Minor Football Championship: 2014