Education
In 2000, McFadden was part of the victorious Saint Eunan's College team that brought the McLarnon Cup back to the school for a third time, the first win since 1979. His words of advice also helped the College to reclaim the McLarnon Cup in 2007, and to go on to compete in the All-Ireland B Colleges Final, which they subsequently lost.
That 2000 final victory over St Columb's of Derry at Casement Park has been described as "arguably the match that catapulted him to people's attention outside of Donegal". He scored a late goal to give the College victory by a scoreline of 1-11 to 1-9, 1-8 of which McFadden scored himself.
Soon he was off to the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he studied Financial Maths and Economics. There he won the All-Ireland Freshers and, two years after that, the Sigerson Cup, with the final held at Cork's Páirc Uí Rinn. He took his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Liverpool Hope University, discussing football with a fellow teacher (and semi-professional footballer with a Conference team – name forgotten) during teaching practice at St Catherine's in Edge Hill.
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