Career
With his club he has emerged from the shadows of the more experienced forwards Colm McFadden and Christy Toye to stake his place in the team McLaughlin"s club reached the final of the 2011 Donegal Senior Football Championship— their first ever senior final—but lost, though McLaughlin scored during the game. McLaughlin"s appearance as a substitute in the final was hailed as important to Donegal"s historic second consecutive Ulster Senior Football Championship winning campaign of 2012.
A squad member during Donegal"s 2012 All-Ireland winning campaign, he accompanied the team on their end-of-year holiday to Dubai.
