Ger Farragher

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Ger Farragher
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Personal information
Sport Hurling
Position Midfield
Born (1983-06-10) 10 June 1983 (age 41)
Galway, Ireland
Height 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)
Club(s)
YearsClub
1999-
Castlegar
Inter-county(ies)
YearsCountyApps (scores)
2002-2011
Galway 33 (6-127)
Inter-county titles
NHL 1
All Stars 1

Ger Farragher (born 10 June 1983) is an Irish sportsman. He played in the forward line on the Galway senior hurling team. He plays his club hurling with Castlegar.

Farragher was born in Galway in 1983 and has had much success in the game of hurling. At inter-county level he has won 2 back-to-back minor All-Ireland medals in 1999 and 2000. In 2002 he made his senior championship debut and has gone on to be one of the game's most prolific scorers. Farragher also has an All-Ireland senior hurling runners-up medal from 2005 when he was the top-scorer in the championship. He has also played on Institute of Technology, Sligo's Ryan Cup team. In 2005 Farragher claimed his first All-Star Award. [1]

In 2010, Farragher was named Opel GPA player of the League for his performance in the National Hurling League that year. [2]

Farragher also played soccer with Oranbay 90 (now incorporated in Maree Oranmore FC) in the Galway FA leagues. Farragher usually operated as a winger for the Maree Oranmore outfit

Career statistics

TeamYear National League Leinster All-Ireland Total
DivisionAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScore
Galway 2002 Division 1A 00-0000-0020-0120-01
200320-0000-0000-0020-00
200400-0000-0000-0000-00
200572-5400-0063-57135-111
2006 Division 1B 52-3100-0041-2293-53
200740-0000-0000-0040-00
200874-5300-0020-0494-57
2009 Division 1 40-1000-0030-0370-13
201070-4441-2810-02121-74
201160-4400-0030-1090-54
Total428-23641-28214-996713-363

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References

  1. "Ger takes new steps forward". Irish Independent . 9 March 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
  2. "Steven McDonnell and Galway's Ger Farragher win Awards". Sportsnewsireland.com. 13 May 2010. Archived from the original on 18 May 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2010.

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