Damien Comer
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Damien Ó Ciaragáin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Full Forward | ||
| Born |
11 January 1994 Galway, Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Occupation | Secondary school teacher | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
2012– | Annaghdown | ||
| Inter-county(ies)* | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2014– | Galway | 37 (11-48) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Connacht titles | 3 | ||
| NFL | 1 (Div.2) | ||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
| *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 23 April 2023. | |||
Damien Comer (born 11 January 1994) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Annaghdown and at senior level for the Galway county team.
Comer is a former pupil of St Jarlath's College in Tuam, and also a graduate of NUI Galway, with whom he reached the 2018 Sigerson Cup final.[1]
Comer did not play for Galway at minor level.[2]
He was a member of the Galway team that won the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 2013.[3] He made his senior championship debut when he came on as a substitute against London in the 2014 Connacht SFC.[4] Comer was part of the Galway team that won the 2016 Connacht SFC. He started all of the team's games as the county won its first Connacht SFC title since 2008.[5][6]
Comer was introduced as a late substitute in Galway's 2025 Connacht SFC semi-final victory against Roscommon. He sustained an injury before the Connacht SFC final and did not feature in the matchday 26 until just before the second round robin game against Derry.[7]
Personal life
Comer completed a Bachelor of Science in anatomy and a master's degree in Teacher Education and Professional Development between 2016 and 2018.[8][9]
He is a science and maths teacher at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir in Claregalway; during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he spoke about the difficulty of teaching from home.[10][11] His Galway teammate Paul Conroy also teaches at the same school.[10]
Comer is in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Megan Glynn.[8]
Career statistics
- As of match played 23 April 2023
| Team | Year | National League | Connacht | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Galway | 2014 | Division 2 | 2 | 0–0 | 3 | 0–1 | 2 | 0–2 | 7 | 0–3 |
| 2015 | 5 | 1–7 | 3 | 2–6 | 3 | 1–3 | 11 | 4–16 | ||
| 2016 | 7 | 4–10 | 3 | 0–5 | 1 | 1–0 | 11 | 5–15 | ||
| 2017 | 3 | 1–2 | 2 | 0–4 | 2 | 0–1 | 7 | 17 | ||
| 2018 | Division 1 | 7 | 1–14 | 3 | 2–6 | 4 | 1–6 | 14 | 4–26 | |
| 2019 | 0 | 0–0 | 0 | 0–0 | 1 | 0–0 | 1 | 0–0 | ||
| 2020 | 6 | 0–6 | 1 | 0–0 | - | 7 | 0–6 | |||
| 2021 | 2 | 0–2 | 2 | 1–1 | - | 4 | 1–3 | |||
| 2022 | Division 2 | 6 | 4–11 | 3 | 0–4 | 3 | 2–5 | 12 | 6–20 | |
| 2023 | Division 1 | 4 | 0–4 | 1 | 1–4 | 5 | 1–8 | |||
| Career total | 42 | 11–56 | 21 | 6–31 | 16 | 5–17 | 79 | 22–104 | ||