Shane Curran
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Born | 8 April 1971 Castlerea, County Roscommon | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1990s , 2000s-2014 | St Brigids | ||
| Club titles | |||
| All-Ireland Titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1990s-2000s | Roscommon | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Connacht titles | 1 | ||
| NFL | 0 | ||
Shane Curran (born 8 April 1971)[1] is an Irish sportsperson from Castlerea, County Roscommon. He is the former inter-county Gaelic football goalkeeper for Roscommon, and his club St Brigids. He also played association football as well.
Sports career
With Roscommon, he won a Connacht Minor Football Championship medal in 1989, Junior medal in 2000 and Senior medal in 2001, he also won an All-Ireland Junior Football Championship medal in 2000. He also played soccer with Athlone Town and won a Leinster Senior Cup (association football).
With St Brigids he won an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship medal in 2013. He was literally carried off (there was no stretcher) in the following year's Connacht final, which St Brigid's lost to Castlebar Mitchels, after making an epic solo run up the field only to injure himself in doing so.[2]
At the beginning of 2015 he made his first move into inter Club team management when he was appointed Senior Manager for local South Roscommon Club Padraig Pearses GAA Roscommon.
Other
Since retiring from inter-county football, Curran has set up flood defence company Global Flood Solutions. The company supplies the rapid response flood defence products such as the Big Bag Flood Defence System for which Curran recently secured a €2 million export deal[3] for which they were interviewed recently by Irish national broadcaster RTÉ[4] on their RTÉ Radio 1 show The Business hosted by broadcaster George Lee.[5] Shane Curran was also recently interviewed about the Big Bag Solution on Ireland's most popular TV show The Late Late Show hosted by Ryan Tubridy.[6]
Honours
Gaelic football
- Team
- 1 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship medal (2013)
- 1 Connaught Senior Football Championship medal (2001)
- 1 Connacht Minor Football Championship medal (1989)
- 3 County Senior Championship medals (2005, 2007, 2013)
- Individual
- 1 All Star nominee (2003)
- 1 GPA Player of the Month (May 2004)
- Commissioned by Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to invent goalkeeping kicking tee (2005)
- Roscommon Senior Player of the Year (2003)
- Captained Roscommon (2003/4)
- Holds Championship record for been the only goalkeeper in GAA history to score 1 goal and 1 point in a championship match and finish top scorer.
Soccer
- 1 Athlone Town Player of the Year (1995)
- 1 Leinster League Cup (1995)
References
- ↑ "Curran, Shane". Hoganstand.com. 1993-03-05. Retrieved 2011-01-03.
- ↑ Farrelly, Mark (25 November 2013). "Shane Curran Was Literally Dumped Out Of The Championship Yesterday [Updated]". Balls.ie. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ↑ The Irish Times 4.1.2011
- ↑ Raidió Teilifís Éireann
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq_hSDWMsFM
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObH9TukFTE
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