Tommy McGuigan

McGuigan's father Frank is regarded as a legend of Tyrone football and his older brother Brian won three All-Ireland Senior Football Championships while playing for Tyrone. In 2008, Tommy and Brian McGuigan picked up All-Ireland SFC winning medals and their older brother Frank also has an All-Ireland medal to his name as a result of being on the 2003 panel.

Youngest brother Shay McGuigan was also a member of the Tyrone All-Ireland winning minor panel of 2008 and is in his second year playing for the Tyrone minors.

In his championship debut against Fermanagh, McGuigan led the Tyrone charge, in a shaky performance for the team. He scored three valuable points, as Tyrone were playing through difficult portions of the match.[1]

This performance was later dulled somewhat, "by the fact that he has picked up a broken wrist, and may miss the rest of the Ulster Senior Football Championship, should Tyrone progress."[2]

During the 2008 championship McGuigan proved to be one of the finds of the season and scored a vital goal at the start of the second half of the 2008 All-Ireland Final. He finished the season with a tally of 1-21 (24 points).

On 29 July 2014, Tommy McGuigan posted a tweet, which was descibed as antisemitic and which he later removed.[3][4][5][6] McGuigan later apologised for the remark, claiming it was written as a joke and was meant as "nothing serious". McGuigan said he had passed his number onto a London-based Jewish columnist, who requested to speak with him in order to confront him over his comment. "I said it was meant as a joke, nothing serious. He agreed to let it go."[7]

On 3 August 2014, McGuigan posted a message with a racist and derogatory term for Hispanic people on his Twitter account: "“@ryanbulldog83 @McIlroyRory course. Sergio shitting his Spick pants. Happy Gilmore cunt”" in reference to Rory McIlroy passing Spanish golfer Sergio Garcia at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational golf tournament.[8][9]