Adrian Doherty

Name: Adrian Doherty
Born: 10 June 1973, Strabane
Died: 9 June 2000, The Hague (Netherlands)
Height: 5.08 ft
Weight: 10.06 st
Position: Winger

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: Under-16, 6 Under-15 Schoolboy Caps (1988).

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Moorfield Boys	-	-	Youth	-	-	-	-	-
Derry City	-	-	Youth	0(0)/0	-	-	-	-
Manchester.United	-	Nov-87	Youth	0(0)/0	-	-	-	-
Derry City	93/94	c/s-93	Free	3(0)/1	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£0		3(0)/1	0(0)/0	0(0)/0	0(0)/0	0(0)/0

Biography:
A contemporary of Manchester United's famous "Class of '92", Adrian Doherty was rated ahead of the likes of Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and David Beckham. By the time those illustrious names had become established at Old Trafford, Doherty's career had been ended by injury.

Doherty came through youth football in the Derry area, earning schoolboy caps while a pupil at St Colman's in Strabane. He was attached to Derry City and signed for Manchester United at fourteen. He was just 16 when called into United's senior squad in March 1990. Around the same time Billy Bingham sought to include him in the Northern Ireland Under-21 squad for a match against Israel, but Alex Ferguson blocked the move, considering Doherty still too young.

Just days before what should have been his First Division debut, Doherty suffered the cruciate ligament injury that would ultimately end his career. Over the following few years he had a few abortive comeback attempts before Ferguson agreed to allow him to sign for Roy Coyle's Derry City. He made a goalscoring debut for the Candystripes against Cobh in August 1993, but after just two further matches, aged just twenty, his playing career was over.

Also a talented guitarist and song-writer, some speculate that he could have as easily been the next Bob Dylan as the next George Best, Doherty attempted to build a career in music. In reality he ended up drifting from job to job. It was shortly after moving to Amsterdam to work in a furniture factory that he tripped and fell into a canal. After spending a month in a coma, Doherty passed away, just a day short of his 27th birthday.

An incredibly tragic story of "what might have been".

Guardian Article
Matt Bradley Tribute

Northern Ireland Schoolboys, 1988

Liam Donnelly

Name: Liam Francis Peadar Donnelly
Born: 7 March 1996, Dungannon
Height: 5.10 ft
Weight: 11.02 st
Position: Defender / Midfielder

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: Full, Under-21, Under-17, Under-16.
Club Honours: (with Fulham) FA Youth Cup Runner-Up 2013/14.

Club Career:
Teams ...... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- League FA Cup FL Cup Other
Dungannon Sw 11/12 ....... 2010 Youth 6(1)/0
Fulham ................. Aug-12 Youth 0(0)/0
Crawley Town 15/16 ..... Jul-15 .Loan 9(1)/0 ...... 1(0)/0 1(0)/0
Heart of Midlothian .... Jul-16 Trial
Hartlepool United ...... Aug-16 .Free
Motherwell . 18/19- date Jun-18

Biography:
To follow.

Irish FA
IFA Premiership

Northern Ireland Full Cap Details:
04-06-2014 Chile.. A L 0-2 FR sub
still active

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
13-11-2012 England. A L 0-2 FR sub
09-09-2013 Belgium. A L 0-1 ECQ sent-off
15-10-2013 Serbia.. A L 1-3 ECQ
14-11-2013 Italy... A L 0-3 ECQ
19-11-2013 Cyprus.. H W 1-0 ECQ
05-03-2014 Italy... H L 0-2 ECQ
05-09-2015 Scotland H L 1-2 ECQ
08-09-2015 Iceland. A D 1-1 ECQ
still active.

Gerard Doherty

BBC

Name: Gerard Doherty
Born: 24 August 1981, Londonderry
Height: 6.02 ft (1.88 m)

Weight: 13.08 st (86 kg)
Position: Goalkeeper

Representative Honours: Republic of Ireland: Youth; League of Ireland Representative (2011).
Club Honours: (with TNS) Welsh Premier League Champion 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07; Welsh Cup Winner 2004/05; League of Wales Cup Winner 2005/06; FAW Premier Cup Winner 2006/07; (with Derry) FAI Cup Winner 2012; League of Ireland Cup Winner 2008, 2011; League of Ireland First Division Winner 2010.

Awards: Airtricity/Soccer Writers' Association of Ireland Goalkeeper of the Year 2011.

Club Career: (to end of 2012)

Clubs.... --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Europe

Derry C. .98/99 .............. Youth ..5(0)/0

Derby Co. ........... Feb-99 £30,000 ..0(0)/0 

T.N.S. .. 01/02-07/08 Nov-01 ...Free 144(0)/0 ............. 8(0)/0

Barry T. .03/04 ............... Loan ..2(0)/0 

Derry C...2008 - date Jan-08 ....... 130(-)/0 ............. 4(0)/0

Biography:

A former Republic of Ireland youth cap, Ger Doherty was long talked-up as a potential international by his club-manager, Declan Devine. Michael O'Neill awarded Doherty his first Northern Ireland call-up for a February 2013 friendly in Malta.

More to follow.

Wikipedia

Welsh Premier League
Irish Times Soccer Stats

League of Ireland Representative Appearance Details:

30-07-2011 Manchester City FC L 0-3 DSC

31-07-2011 Celtic FC ........ L 0-5 DSC

Summary: 2/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Rory Donnelly

Name: Ruaridhri Donnelly

Born: 18 February 1992, Belfast

Height: 6.02ft (1.88m)

Weight:

Position: Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Under-21 Cap (2013).
Club Honours: (with Cliftonville) Co. Antrim Shield Winner 2011/12.
Awards: League Two Player of the Month Jan-15.

Club Career:

Teams ..... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other

Clift'ville 10/11-11/12 .......Youth 49 (-)/20 ...... 5(-)/2 2(-)/0

Swansea C. .11/12-14/15 Jan-12 Undis .0 (0)/ 0 ...... 0(1)/0 1(0)/0 
Coventry C. 13/14 ..... Jan-14..Loan .0 (0)/ 0
Tranmere R. 14/15 ..... Jan-15..Loan 15 (5)/ 5
Gillingham. 15/16-16/17 Jun-15 .Free 35(31)/12 1(2)/0 1(1)/0 3(1)/0
Clift'ville 17/18- date Aug-17 .Free

Biography:

Rory Donnelly's stunning early season form in 2011/12 saw him earn a move from Irish League Cliftonville to Premier League Swansea, with Liverpool, Arsenal and Everton also reportedly interested. 

Included in both Northern Ireland Under-21 and senior squads, he was capped for the first time in an Under-21 friendly against Denmark in August 2013.

Donnelly's debut in full-time football came as a substitute against Crawley in the League Cup in September 2012. It was nearly a year until his second Swans appearance as he started a Europa League match at Petrolul Ploiesti. In January 2014 he was sent to Coventry on loan but stayed just a few days before returning to the Liberty Stadium having not played a game. Having also been plagued by injuries, he was again sent out on loan mid-way through the 2014/15 season, joining Tranmere. He scored his first senior goals since leaving Cliftonville against Accrington Stanley in his first start. Three goals in as many starts brought him the January League Two Player of the Month award.

Donnelly was released by Swansea at the conclusion of his loan spell at Tranmere. He then signed for Gillingham on a two-year contract.

More to follow.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
14-08-2013 Denmark H L 1-4 FR

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Stuart Dallas

Name: Stuart Dallas

Born: 19 April 1991, Cookstown

Height: 6.00 ft / 1.83 m

Weight: 12.11 st / 81 kg

Position: Midfielder

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Full Cap (2011), 1 Under-23 Cap (2010), 2 Under-21 Caps (2011-2012), Junior caps (2010).

Club Honours: (with Crusaders) Irish Cup Runner-Up 2010/11, 2011/12; Irish League Cup Winner 2011/12; Setanta Sports Cup Winner 2012; (with Brentford) Football League One Runner-Up 2013/14.

Awards: NI FWA Player of the Year 2011; NI FWA Young Player of the Year 2011.

Club Career:

Teams .., --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League-- FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other
Coagh Utd (IFA Championship)

Crusaders 10/11-11/12 c/s-10 ..... 65 (2)/24 ?(?)/2 ?(?)/2 2(0)/0
Brentford 12/13-14/15 c/s-12 .Free 32(31)/ 8 1(3)/0 4(0)/2 ...... 1(3)/0
Northampton Town .... Oct-13 .Loan 10 (2)/ 3
Leeds Utd 15/16- date Aug-15 £1.3m 

Biography:

Stuart Dallas only arrived in senior football at the start of the 2010/11 season, but by the end of it he had been crowned as the IFA Premiership's best player and called into the Northern Ireland squad.

While a Coagh United player Dallas was a member of the Northern Ireland Junior squad that competed at the 2010 Quadrangular Tournament.

Dallas joined Brentford for the 2012/13 season. His last act as a Crues player was to convert a penalty in a shoot-out win against Derry City in the Setanta Cup final.

After a few seasons acclimatising to the full-time game, including during a loan spell at Northampton, Dallas earned a run of games during the second half of the 2013/14 season as the Bees clinched promotion from League One. His continued good form early in the following campaign saw him included in the Northern Ireland squad for the first time under Michael O'Neill, when he was a late call-up for a September match in Hungary.

After a near-four year gap, Dallas won his second cap against Scotland in February 2015. He retained his place in the squad thereafter, scoring his first goal with a fine strike in a friendly against Qatar.

In the summer of 2015 Dallas was linked with a number of teams, including Rangers. He left Brentford for Leeds United in a deal believed to be worth around £1.25 million plus add-ons.

More to follow.

Wikipedia
NIFL Premiership
Soccerbase

Northern Ireland Cap Details:

27-05-2011 Wales....... N L 0-2 MT. sub
25-02-2015 Scotland.... A L 0-1 FR
29-03-2015 Finland..... H W 2-1 ECQ sub
31-05-2015 Qatar....... N D 1-1 FR. 1 Goal
13-06-2015 Romania..... H D 0-0 ECQ
Still active.

Northern Ireland Under-23 Cap Details:
13-10-2010 Portugal.... A L 0-2 ICT

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
06-09-2011 Denmark..... H L 0-3 ECQ
15-08-2012 Hungary..... H L 2-3 FR

Summary: 2/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Northern Ireland Junior Cap Details:
21-04-2010 Scotland.... H L 0-2 QT
22-04-2010 Rep. Ireland H D 1-1 QT 1 goal
24-04-2010 Isle of Man. H D 1-1 QT

Dallas in action for Northern Ireland Juniors against Scotland Juniors.

Banbridge 2010 (Roy Cathcart)

Joe Dubois

Name: Joseph Martin Dubois
Born: 27 December 1927, Monkstown
Died: 1987
Position: Outside-Right

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1949), 1 Junior Cap (1948).

Club Career:
Teams .......... --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- League
Brantwood
Linfield
Arsenal ........ 48/49 ..... Jul-48 Amateur .0/ 0
Brantwood ...... 48/49
Doncaster Rovers 49/50-51/52 May-49 ....... 31/ 5
Bedford Town ... 52/53 ..... Jul-52 ....... 41/11 (Southern League)
Grimsby Town ... 53/54 ..... Jul-53 ........ 6/ 1
Halifax Town ... 54/55-56/57 Jul-54 ....... 78/10

Biography:
Capped as a Junior in March 1948 while playing for Linfield Swifts and as an Amateur while briefly with Arsenal, Joe Dubois' first taste of senior football came with Peter Doherty's Doncaster Rovers. He played eleven times in Rovers' 1949/50 Division Three (North) title winning side but soon fell from the firstteam reckoning. He dropped into non-league football with Bedford and by the time he signed for Grimsby in 1953 was working at Finningley Aerodrome. Despite making a scoring debut for the Mariners in a 2-0 home win over Accrington, Dubois soon dropped to the reserves. He finally enjoyed regular League football with Halifax through to February 1957 when he left the club by mutual consent.

Bedford Town profile
Season with Bedford Town

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
05-02-1949 England A W 0-1

Summary: 1/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0.

Martin Donnelly

Name: Martin Donnelly
Born: 4 January 1951, Belfast
Height: 5.08 ft
Weight: 11.06 st
Position: Left-Half

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 6 Amateur Caps (1971-1973); League of Ireland Representative.
Club Honours: (with Distillery) Irish Cup Winner 1970/71; (with Drogheda) FAI Cup Runner-Up 1975/76; (with San Diego) NASL Indoor Champion 1982, 1984; MISL Champion 1983.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	Europe	Other
Distillery	-	-	Amateur	*138(-)/9	-	2(0)/0	-
Kidderminster Harriers	-	c/s-73	-	-	(Southern League)
Waterford	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Drogheda United	74/75-78/79	-	-	135(-)/24	-	-	-
San Diego Sockers	1979-83/84	-79	-	-	(NASL/MISL)
Las Vegas Americans	84/85	c/s-84	-	-	(MISL)
Dallas Sidekicks	85/86	c/s-85	-	-	(MISL)
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-	-

* all domestic games.

Biography:
To follow.

NASL / MISL Photos and Stats

Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
19-02-1971 Scotland H D 1-1
17-04-1971 Wales... A L 0-1
15-04-1972 Wales... A W 3-0
06-10-1972 England. A L 1-2
16-03-1973 Scotland A L 0-1
07-04-1973 Wales... A L 1-2

Summary: 6/0. Won 1, Drew 1, Lost 4.

With thanks to Jim Murphy.

Alex Doherty

Name: Alexander Doherty
Position: Left-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1960).
Club Honours: (with Distillery) City Cup Winner 1959/60.

Club Career:
Distillery

Biography:
Alex Doherty was already knocking on the door of amateur international recognition while still playing for Distillery Seconds. Indeed it was only shortly after he was elevated to the senior ranks, in place of ex-amateur international Denis McCurley, that he was awarded his only cap. 1959/60 was a season of flux for the role of Ireland Amateurs left-back, and three different men were tried in each of that seasons internationals - Doherty, Bangor's George Matier and Eddie Johnston of Ballymena who made his fourth and final appearance in the last match of the campaign.

More to follow.

Northern Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
16-01-1960 Wales... H W 3-2

Summary: 1/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0.

Alan Davidson

Name: Alan (K.G.*) Davidson
Position: Inside-Right

Representative Honours: Ireland: 1 Amateur Cap (1928).

Club Career:
Teams --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- League Other
Ophir (Amateur League)
Barn. 27/28 ............ Amateur
Larne 27/28 ............ Amateur
Ards. 28/29 ............ Amateur .??/ 8 ??/ 3

Biography:
After a prolific period at centre-forward with Ards during the first-half of the 1928/29 season Alan Davidson an Amateur international cap against England. Selected at inside-right, despite his more usual role as "a vanguard leader", it was not a wholly unfamiliar position for the player to find himself in as he had previously figured in all three of the inside-forward positions.

Davidson, previously with Amateur League side Ophir, gained his first experience in senior football with Barn and then Larne through the 1927/28 season giving "promising displays". He took advantage of an amateur player's freedom to seek a new club (if they so wished) at the end of each season to sign for Ards in the summer of 1928. By the turn of the year he had plundered eleven goals, including League doubles against Queen's Island and Larne and another brace against Glentoran in a Gold Cup semi-final victory.

Despite such rich form and his international recognition, Davidson's prowess was awarded faint praise by the Ireland's Saturday Night: "...more impressive on some days than others, but his control is generally of a high order. He is perhaps slow in getting off his mark, and rather inclined to shoot from unfavourable positions."

The ISN's suggested remedy of "practice" offered an empty solution as Davidson elected to seek a career at sea in December 1928. Without their most potent goalscoring threat Ards played out their season just clear of the Irish League's re-election spots and lost out 3-1 to Linfield in the Gold Cup final. On his departure the ISN lamented: "We are confident that the best had not yet been seen of Davidson, and had he remained ashore that he would have mounted farther up the ladder of football fame".

Ireland Amateur Cap Details:
10-11-1928 England H L 0-2

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Initials K.G. per IFA minutes.

With thanks to Jim Murphy for forwarding the ISN information.

Daniel Devine

Name: Daniel Devine
Born: 7 September 1992, Belfast
Height: 6.00 ft (1.83 m)
Weight: 
Position: Defender

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Under-21 Caps (2010-2011), Under-19.
Club Honours: (with Inverness) Scottish Cup Winner 2014/15.

Club Career:
Teams ........... --Seasons-- Signed -Fee- -League- FA Cup FL Cup Other
Linfield ........................... Youth
Preston North End 10/11-11/12 ...... Youth 15(0)/ 1 ...... 1(0)/0
Fleetwood Town .. 12/13 ..... c/s-12 .Free .0(0)/ 0
Wrexham ......... 12/13 ..... Sep-12 .Loan .4(0)/ 0 1(0)/0 
Inverness C.T. .. 12/13- date Jan-13 .Free 

Biography:
Having already played for Northern Ireland at Youth and Under-21 level, it was announced in May 2011 that Daniel Devine had elected to represent the Republic of Ireland.

IrishFA
Wikipedia
Soccerbase

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
17-11-2010 Scotland A L 1-3 FR
09-02-2011 Wales... A L 0-2 FR sub

Summary: 1(1)/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 1.

Matthew Doherty

Name: Matthew Doherty
Born: 29 April 1987, Greysteel
Height: 5.11 ft
Weight: 11.07 st
Position: Midfielder / Forward

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 2 Under-21 Caps (2006-2007)
Club Honours:

Club Career:
Teams .............. --Seasons-- Signed --Fee-- League FA Cup FL Cup Europe Other
Carlisle United ......................... Youth
Heart of Midlothian. 06/07-08/09 c/s-04 Nominal
Cowdenbeath ........ 06/07 ..... Jan-07 ...Loan 7(1)/1 1(0)/0
Cowdenbeath ........ 07/08 ..... Aug-07 ...Loan 4(0)/1
Linfield............ 08/09 ..... Sep-08 ...Free 3(1)/0 ...... 2(0)/0 ...... 1(1)/0
Dungannon Swifts ... 08/09 ..... Jan-09 ...Loan
Musselburgh Athletic 09/10- date c/s-09 ...Free (Scottish Junior)

Biography:
Right-sided midfielder ... represented County Londonderry at the 2002 Milk Cup ... more to follow

LondonHearts
MusselburghAthletic

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
14-11-2006 Germany. A L 1-2 FR sub
24-05-2007 Scotland A L 0-4 FR

Summary: 1(1)/0. Won 0, Drew 0, Lost 2.

Hugh Dickson

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Name: Hugh Dickson
Born: 28 August 1981, Killyleagh
Height: 6.01 ft
Weight: 11.02 st
Position: Right-Back

Representative Honours: Northern Ireland: 1 Under-21 Cap (2001), Youth.
Club Honours: (with Glentoran) Irish Cup Winner 1999/00.

Club Career:

Teams	Seasons	Signed	Fee	League	FA Cup	FL Cup	Europe	Other
Downpatrick FE		-	Youth	-	-	-	-	-
Glentoran	99/00	-	Youth	4(1)/0	1(0)/0	-	-	-
Wigan Ath.	00/01-01/02	Aug-00	-	0(1)/0	0(1)/0	-	-	2(0)/0
Ards	01/02	Feb-02	Free	7(0)/1	-	-	-	-
Linfield	02/03	Jun-02	-	23(0)/2	0(1)/0	6(0)/0	2(0)/0	2(1)/0
Elgin City	03/04-07/08	Oct-03	-	93(3)/6	4(0)/0	5(0)/1	-	4(0)/0
Glenavon	07/08-10/11	Jan-08	-	-	-	-	-	-
Killyleagh YC	-	c.s-11	Free	-	-	-	-	-
TOTALS	-	£-		-	-	-	2(0)/0	-

Biography:
David Healy's cousin, Hugh Dickson won an Irish Cup winner's medal with Glentoran after just a handful of appearances. Shortly thereafter he moved to Wigan Athletic where he spent a year and a half before retuirning to the Irish League with Ards then Linfield. After a lengthy spell in the Scottish Third Division with Elgin he again moved "back home" to play with Glenavon.

Capable in defence or midfield, Dickson made his only Northern Ireland Under-21 appearance at right-back against Malta in 2001. He was sent-off in the 84th minute for two bookable offences as the Maltese came from behind to equalise in the last minute. A month later he again wore the number two shirt as a Northern Ireland Select faced Macclesfield in a Sammy McIlroy "Celebration Match".

More to follow.

Northern Ireland Representative Appearance Details:
13-11-2001 Macclesfield Town A W 1-2

Summary: 1/0. Won 1, Drew 0, Lost 0.

Northern Ireland Under-21 Cap Details:
05-10-2001 Malta A D 2-2 ECQ sent-off

Summary: 1/0. Won 0, Drew 1, Lost 0.