Dara Ó Cinnéide

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Dara Ó Cinnéide
Personal information
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
correct as of {{{clupdate}}}.
**Inter County team apps and scores correct
as of {{{icupdate}}}.

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)

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