The Monaghan Inter-county players Stephen Gollogly, Peter O'Hanlon and Mark Downey plays for Carrickmacross Emmetts.
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Club player Martin Penrose is a current member of the Tyrone team and has won All-Ireland championships with the county at Senior & Minor levels, while Ciaran McGarvey was a member of the Tyrone team that faced Kerry in the 1986 All-Ireland final.
The village is a small linear settlement with a mix of public authority and private sector housing, and a number of local services and facilities including a local primary school, church, shop, post office, public house, and recreational facilities at O'Brien's GAC playing fields.
Glenullin was one of the first areas in the county to organise Gaelic games and the local club, John Mitchel's GAC, based at Seán Ó Maoláin Park, has a number of football, hurling and camogie teams.
Shane O'Neill's, founded in 1905 and named after the 16th-century Ulster king Seán an díomais Ó Néill, is essentially a continuation of the first club.