{{Short description|Armagh Gaelic footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox Gaelic games player | name = Philip Loughran | image = | alt = | caption = | <!-- Personal information --> | irish = | sport = | clposition = | icposition = | birth_date = 1980–1981 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | feet = | inches = | nickname = | occupation = | <!-- Club(s) --> | clyears = | clubs = Clady | clapps(points) = | <!-- Club titles --> | code = Football | county = Armagh | clcounty = | province = Ulster | clprovince = | clallireland = | <!-- Inter-county(ies) --> | icyears = | counties = [[Armagh county football team|Armagh]] | icapps(points) = | <!-- Inter-county titles --> | icprovince = | icconnacht = | iculster = | icleinster = | icmunster = | icallireland = 1 | nfl = 1 | allstars = | <!-- Last updated --> | clupdate = | icupdate = }} '''Philip Loughran''' (born 1980–1981)<ref name="middle ground"/> is an Irish [[Gaelic football]]er who played for the Clady club<ref name="middle ground">{{Cite web|title=Philip ready to take middle ground|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/philip-ready-to-take-middle-ground/28165662.html|last=Campbell|first=John|newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|date=27 August 2003}}</ref><ref name="seeks a fillip">{{Cite web|title=Philip seeks a fillip|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/philip-seeks-a-fillip/28224355.html|last=Campbell|first=John|newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|date=22 July 2005}}</ref> and at senior level for the [[Armagh county football team|Armagh county team]]. He displaced [[John Toal (Gaelic footballer)|John Toal]] from the Armagh team in 2003.<ref name="middle ground"/> Injury caused him to lose his place to Toal again during the [[2005 National Football League (Ireland)|2005 National League]] campaign, but then Toal was himself injured during the Ulster final.<ref name="seeks a fillip"/>
Loughran was named in the [[Ireland national international rules football team|Ireland]] squad for the [[2004 International Rules Series]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ulster six in Ireland rules squad|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/3734286.stm|website=[[BBC]]|date=11 October 2004}}</ref> By 2006 he was suffering the effects of an [[Achilles tendon]] injury.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Loughran is hope-Phil of making the Ulster final|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/loughran-is-hope-phil-of-making-the-ulster-final/28037640.html|last=McGeary|first=Micheal|newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|date=27 June 2006}}</ref> He has a [[civil engineering]] degree.<ref name="seeks a fillip"/>
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{{Armagh Football Team 2002}} {{Armagh Football Team 2003}} {{Armagh Football Team 2005}}
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