Charlie Vernon
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Cathal de Bhearnúin | ||
Sport | Gaelic Football | ||
Position | Full Back | ||
Born |
1987 (age 30–31) Armagh, Northern Ireland | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
2004- | Armagh Harps | ||
Colleges(s) | |||
Years | College | ||
Queen's University Belfast | |||
College titles | |||
Sigerson titles | 1 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2006- | Armagh | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Ulster titles | 2 | ||
All-Irelands | 0 | ||
NFL | 1 | ||
All Stars | 0 |
Charlie Vernon is an Irish Gaelic football player for Armagh. Vernon is an avid sports fan and was recently appointed joint head of the Loch An Iuir PE Department along with Finbarr Christie. He captained the Under-21 team in the 2007 season. He has a Sigerson Cup Runners Up and winners medal during his time as a player on the Queen's University Team losing in 2006 to DCU in Parnell Park and winning in 2007 at QUB playing fields, The Dub. He made his Championship debut on 15 June 2008 against Cavan, scoring a point. Armagh was without his services for the start of the 2009 Ulster SFC opener because he suffered broken jaw against Dublin. Charlie is now the regular choice full back for the Armagh Senior Intercounty Football Team who faced Monaghan on 6 July 2014 in the Semi-Final Replay of the Ulster Championship.[1]
Peil Star Street Gaelic Football
In 2017, Vernon appeared in a Street Gaelic Football film created by Peil Star with Michael Murphy from Donegal. The film is called Peil 's Poc and was shot in Omagh, Co. Tyrone for the BBC.[2]
Honours
- Ulster Senior Football Championship (2): 2006, 2008
- Ulster Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2007 (C)
- Sigerson Cup (1): 2007
- Ulster Minor Football Championship (1): 2005
- National Football League Division 2 (1): 2010
- Armagh Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2005
References
- ↑ "Vernon to miss clash with Tyrone". BBC. 4 May 2009. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
- ↑ "Getting to grip with some GAA skills".