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Michael Darragh MacAuley
Personal information
Irish name	Micheál Darragh Mac Amhalghaidh
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Midfield
Born	21 August 1986 (age 38); Dublin, Ireland
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Nickname	MDMA, Mick
Occupation	CEO, Sanctuary Runners
Club(s)
Years	Club
	Ballyboden St Enda's
Club titles
Dublin titles	3
Leinster titles	2
All-Ireland Titles	1
Colleges(s)
Years	College
	Froebel College of Education; Maynooth University
Inter-county(ies)*
Years	County
2010–2021	Dublin
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles	10
All-Irelands	8
NFL	5
All Stars	1
	*Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 21 January 2021.

Michael Darragh MacAuley is a Gaelic footballer who plays club football for Ballyboden St Enda's. He played at inter-county level for the Dublin county team from 2010 until 2020, winning eight All-Ireland medals.

With Ballyboden St Enda's, he won the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. He also won the Dublin Senior Football championship (2009, 2015) and the Leinster Senior Football Club championship (2015). MacAuley was the 2013 GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year.^[2]

In 2024, MacAuley took up the position of CEO at Sanctuary Runners, Ireland.^[3]

Playing career

Club

MacAuley plays his club football with Ballyboden St Enda's, with whom he won the Dublin Senior Football Championship in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Inter-county

MacAuley made his senior football debut for Dublin against Wexford in the first round of the O'Byrne Cup; he scored a point on his debut.^[4] McAuley made his debut in the league against the 2009 All-Ireland Champions Kerry. He scored a decisive point in the game which assured the win for Dublin against Kerry.^[5]

MacAuley made his Championship debut as a substitute against Wexford in the 2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship.^[6] He made his second appearance against Meath in the semi-final of the Leinster football championship, a game in which Dublin were easily beaten by the Royals.^[7] MacAuley had his first start for Dublin against Tipperary in a second round qualifier for the All-Ireland Championship. He scored his first Championship goal and point in a game in which he finished with 1-01 of the final score of 1-21 to 1-13 at Croke Park.^[8] MacAuley scored a point in Dublin's eventual exit from that season's All-Ireland Championship at the semi-final stage.^[9]

MacAuley won his first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in September 2011, when Dublin beat Kerry at Croke Park.^[10] He wasn't surprised by the comeback nature of the game, saying: "We had been down before in matches. It wasn't the first time we were down. We actually had a training game the week before when the As played the Bs and it was a very similar situation".^[11] His second All-Ireland title came against Mayo in 2013, as did the GAA/GPA Footballer of the Year, when he succeeded Karl Lacey to the title.^[12]^[2]

On 21 January 2021, MacAuley announced his retirement form inter-county football.^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]

Personal life

After retiring from playing inter county football he visited Hikkaduwa - a surfing town on the south coast of Sri Lanka.^[17] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war he and David Hickey formed a group called Dublin Footballers Support Palestine to advocate for Palestinians and to put pressure on the Irish Government to take a stronger stance against Israeli human rights abuses.^[18]