Naoise Ó Baoill (born 1997)[2][3][4] is an Irish-Japanese Gaelic footballer, reared in Japan and Australia and currently playing for Gaoth Dobhair.
Born in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ó Baoill's mother, Kumi, is Japanese and he spent much of his early childhood in her home country.
[4] His father Colm, an Irishman originally from Bóthar na Trá in Machaire Chlochair,[4] got a job in Australia and the family moved there in 1998.
[2] When he won a Donegal Minor Football Championship medal with Gaoth Dobhair in 2014, Ó Baoill brought it with him to the island of Kyushu to show it to his grandparents.
[5] Ó Baoill won a Donegal Senior Football Championship medal with Gaoth Dobhair in 2018, starting for his team in the final and completing the game.
[12] Eamon McGee had queried before that game whether Ó Baoill would become the first Japanese man to play in the final of the Ulster Club Football Championship.