title: Pascal McConnell
text: # Pascal McConnell
  
  Pascal McConnell is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Tyrone county team.
  
  He is an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner.
  
  McConnell competed with John Devine and Niall Morgan to be first choice goalkeeper for Tyrone.
  
  ## Early life and family
  
  McConnell's older brother is Tyrone's All Star-winning goalkeeper of the nineties, Finbar McConnell.
  
  ## Playing career
  
  In 1998, McConnell played alongside Stephen O'Neill in the MacRory Cup semi-final for Omagh CBS.
  
  Over the course of his career with Tyrone GAA, McConnell helped win three All-Ireland senior medals for the county.
  
  ### Retirement
  
  McConnell announced his retirement from inter-county football in November 2013.
  
  When asked about this decision, McConnell said, "There is a big commitment required in order to stay performing at the top level and I feel the time is right to bow out and start a new chapter in my life. I have absolutely no regrets from my playing career with Tyrone, although, I suppose if I was a bit greedy, I would say that I felt that we could have won the All Ireland in 2009 and 2010."
  
  His retirement from inter-county football left Conor Gormley, Dermot Carlin, Stephen O'Neill and Seán Cavanagh as the only remaining links to the Tyrone team that won the county's first All-Ireland senior title in 2003.
  
  