Dara Ó Cinnéide
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Personal information | |||
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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Date of Birth | 25 April 1975 | ||
Place of birth | Kerry, Ireland | ||
Club information | |||
Club | An Ghaeltacht | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Club(s)* | |||
Club | Years | Apps (scores) | |
An Ghaeltacht | ?-? | ||
Inter County | |||
County | Kerry | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Inter County(ies)** | |||
County | Years | Apps (scores) | |
Kerry | 1994-2005 | ||
Inter County Titles | |||
Munster Titles | 8 | ||
All-Ireland | 3 | ||
* club appearances and scores |
Dara Ó Cinnéide (born 25 April 1975) is an All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry.
Ó Cinnéide plays his GAA club football for An Ghaeltacht. He made his Kerry County football team debut versus Donegal in a National Football League game in March 1994. Dara is a radio broadcaster with the Irish Language station Radio na Gaeltachta. His preferred position is corner forward. Dara is the producer of the Radió na Gaeltachta show An Saol Ó Dheas.[1]
[edit] All-Ireland
He captained Kerry to All-Ireland glory against the Mayo team in 2004. He finished that season as the highest scoring Kerry player with a total of 2-25 (31 points). He was lauded for giving his after-game speech in the Irish language. when he played on Kerry's All-Ireland winning side in the year 2000, and he scored a total of 4 points in th final against Galway. He also won the All-Ireland with Kerry in 1997.
Preceded by Peter Canavan (Tyrone) |
All-Ireland Football Final winning captain 2004 |
Succeeded by Brian Dooher (Tyrone) |
[edit] External links
- Kerry GAA Website
- An Ghaeltacht Website (Irish Language Website)