Ciaran McKeever

Ciaran McKeever
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Position Center back
Born County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Club(s)
Years Club
St.Patrick's, Cullyhanna GAA
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
2003-present Armagh
Inter-county titles
Ulster titles 4
NFL 1
All Stars 0

Ciaran McKeever is a Gaelic football player from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He plays for the Armagh senior inter county football team.[1][2] He won a National Football League medal in 2005 as Armagh defeated Cavan in the final by 0-15 to 0-7.

In 2011, McKeever was vice captain of the Ireland team that won the 2011 International Rules Series against Australia by 130 to 65.[3][4] [5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "McKeever ready to lead from the front for Armagh". Belfast Telegraph. 30 May 2009. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/mckeever-ready-to-lead-from-the-front-for-armagh-14320129.html. Retrieved 22 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Derry 3-14 Armagh 1-11". RTE Sport. 19 June 2011. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2011/0619/derry_armagh.html. Retrieved 22 November 2011. 
  3. ^ "'People calling this a holiday have no idea how much it means to players'". Irish Independent. 28 October 2011. http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/people-calling-this-a-holiday-have-no-idea-how-much-it-means-to-players-2919637.html. Retrieved 22 November 2011. 
  4. ^ "Ireland manager Tohill does homework for Rules opener". BBC Sport. 27 October 2011. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/15486984.stm. Retrieved 22 November 2011. 
  5. ^ "Australia 29-50 Ireland - As It Happened". RTE Sport. 4 November 2011. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2011/1104/ireland_australia.html. Retrieved 7 November 2011. 
  6. ^ "Ireland win second test and Rules series". Irish Examiner. 4 November 2011. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/ireland-win-second-test-and-rules-series-527094.html. Retrieved 7 November 2011. 
  7. ^ "McKeever ready for Australia backlash". Irish Independent. 2 November 2011. http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/mckeever-ready-for-australia-backlash-2923042.html. Retrieved 22 November 2011. 

External Links

Armagh - All-Ireland Under 21 Football Champions 2004 (1st title)

1 G Wilson | 2 G Smyth | 3 F Moriarty | 4 A Mallon | 5 A Kernan | 6 Ciaran McKeever  | 7 B McDonald | 8 M Mackin | 9 G Swift | 10 G Loughran | 11 S Kernan | 12 P Toal | 13 M McNamee | 14 R Austin | 15 B Mallon |
Armagh - National Football League Champions 2005 (1st title)

1 P. Hearty | 2 A. Mallon | 3 F. Bellew | 4 P McCormack | 5 A Kernan | 6 K. McGeeney | 7 C. McKeever | 8 J Toal | 9 P. McGrane | 10M O'Rourke | 11 J. McEntee | 12 O. McConville | 13 S. McDonnell | 14 R. Clarke | 15 B Mallon |
Subs used: P. McKeever | A McCann | J McNulty | P Loughran | A O'Rourke |
Manager: J. Kernan
2008 Irish News Ulster GAA All-Stars

1 Ronan Gallagher
2 Shane Goan • 3 Francie Bellew • 4 Justin McMahon
5 Ryan McMenamin • 6 Ryan McCluskey • 7 Ciaran McKeever
8 Martin McGrath • 9 Enda McGinley

10 Brian Dooher • 11 Sean Cavanagh • 12 Mark Little
13 Stephen McDonnell • 14 Rónán Clarke • 15 Tomás Freeman