Gary Thomas Mulligan (born 23 April 1985) is an Irish footballer who plays as a forward for Southern League Premier Division Central club Harborough Town.
Coming through the Wolverhampton Wanderers academy in 2004, and played on loan at Rushden & Diamonds before he joined Sheffield United the following year.
He signed with Harborough Town in March 2022 and helped the club to win the United Counties League Premier Division South title at the end of the 2021–22 season.
Born in Dublin, Mulligan played his youth football at Belvedere before moving on to Wolverhampton Wanderers, for whom he made only one appearance, as an 82nd minute substitute in the 1–1 draw with Burnley at Turf Moor on 21 August 2004.
In the 2005–06 season he went on loan to Port Vale for a month,[7] which was extended by four weeks in October,[8] and again in November, scoring once (against Walsall[9]) in twelve games.
Following Mark Stimson's appointment in November 2007, Mulligan dropped out of first-team plans as the Gills sunk to relegation in 2007–08.
[33] He made 49 appearances across the 2017–18 campaign as Marcus Law led the side to a fourth-place finish and defeat in the play-off semi-finals to Slough Town.
[35] On 28 June 2018, Mulligan signed with Southern League Division One Central side Corby Town and was immediately named club captain by manager Steven Kinniburgh, who was a former Kettering teammate.
[42] On 7 March 2022, Mulligan joined United Counties League Premier Division South side Harborough Town.
[43] He helped the "Bees" to win the United Counties League Premier Division South title at the end of the 2021–22 season.
[44] He featured 36 times in the 2022–23 campaign as the club posted an eighth-place finish in the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands.