Declan Browne

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Declan Browne
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Personal information
Irish name Déaglan de Brun
Sport Gaelic football
Position Forward
Born (1978-06-16) 16 June 1978 (age 45)
Tipperary, Ireland
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Club(s)
YearsClub
? 1995–present
Moyle Rovers
Club titles
Tipperary titles 7 (senior football)
2 (junior hurling)
Munster titles 1 (junior hurling)
Inter-county(ies)**
YearsCountyApps (scores)
1996–2007
Tipperary 25 (9-140)
Inter-county titles
All Stars 2
**Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (20:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)).

Declan Browne (born 16 June 1978) is an Irish Gaelic football coach and player who competed at inter-county level for Tipperary for 11 years. He currently plays his club football for Moyle Rovers. [1] He represented Ireland against Australia in the 2003 and 2004 International Rules series. [2]

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Playing career

Browne made his championship debut in 1996 in a Munster championship game against Kerry. Browne received Tipperary's first football All-Star in 1998 when he was picked at corner-forward after leading the Tipperary team to the Munster Football Final. Browne won his second All-Star award in 2003. [3] He has won seven Tipperary Senior Football Championship medals with his club, Moyle Rovers. He won a Munster Minor Football Championship medal in 1995, a Munster and All Ireland Minor Hurling medal in 1996 and a Munster U-21 Hurling medal in 1999 as well as a McGrath Cup medal in 2003 and was awarded the Munster footballer of the year award for that same year. He also won 2 Fitzgibbon Cup medals. Browne captained Tipperary to win the 2005 Tommy Murphy Cup. [4] In 2007, he announced his retirement from the inter-county scene, following Tipperary's defeat by Clare in the Tommy Murphy Cup. [5]

Management

Browne took over as the manager of the Tipperary Under-21 Football team in September 2016. [6] His first game in charge was against Limerick on 8 March 2017 in the Munster Under-21 Football Championship which Tipperary lost 0–14 to 0–16. [7] [8] [9]

In January 2021, Browne joined the Tipperary senior football management team as the forwards coach. [10] [11]

Career Statistics

TeamYear National League Munster All-Ireland Total
DivisionAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScore
Tipperary 1996 Division 4 10-00-10-00
1997 Group D 3 (?)1-10-31-10
1998 Division 2 Group B 42-29-42-29
199910-04-10-04
2000Not played10-08-10-08
2001-
2002 Division 2 Group B 42-2010-0752-27
200321-1621-1842-34
200462-4811-03-73-51
200540-0710-0911-0261-18
200672-3110-0510-0492-40
200710-05-10-05
Total207-10952-31259-141

Honours

Moyle Rovers
Tipperary
Waterford Institute of Technology
Munster
Individual

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