Donal Reid (/ˈdoʊnəl ˈriːd/ DOH-nəl reed; born 1961 or 1962) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Bundoran, Red Hughs and the Donegal county team.
[2] Reid started the 1982 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final, the nineteenth edition of this competition and the first one that Donegal won.
[7] Reid played at the back and scored a point in that year's Ulster final against Armagh, which Donegal won.
"[2] However, manager Brian McEniff did not select Reid to start Donegal's opening round Ulster SFC match against Cavan at Breffni Park on 24 May.
[2] However, after winning the Ulster SFC (and thereby qualifying for the semi-final of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship), Reid returned to his club, Red Hughs.
Shortly before the All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Mayo, he played in a Donegal County Football Championship match against Termon.
[4] Donegal team doctor Jim McDaid went with Reid to hospital in Letterkenny, where 18 stitches were applied to his gums.
[4] Reid recovered sufficiently to start at right half back in the 1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final as Donegal, in their first appearance at this stage of the competition, unexpectedly defeated the then 21-times winners Dublin.
[9][10] However, the Donegal Democrat's Alan Foley wrote in 2009 that a broken shoulder sustained against Armagh in 1993 led to Reid's retirement.
[3] He went on to manage the under-21 county team, leading players such as Brian Roper and James Ruane to an Ulster Under-21 Football Championship in 1995.
[11][12] Having previously spent time working in London's Metropole Hotel as a youth and then been involved in hotel management, Reid retrained in physical therapy and then spent time working as a volunteer at an orphanage in Siret, a town in Romania's Suceava County, on the border with Ukraine.
[2][13] He managed such clubs as Red Hughs, Clan na Gael, Gortin, Aghyaran, Robert Emmet's and MacCumhaill's.
[3] He was also part of manager Jim McGuinness's backroom team when Donegal won their 2012 All-Ireland SFC title.
[4] In February 2019, Reid put out the flames from a woman whose clothing caught fire during Mass in his local church in Killygordon.