![]() Kieran Fitzgerald in 2015 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Ciarán Mac Gearailt | ||
Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Right Corner Back | ||
Born | Galway, Ireland | 1 January 1981||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Occupation | Garda Síochána | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
1998–2020 | Corofin | ||
Club titles | |||
Galway titles | 14 | ||
Connacht titles | 7 | ||
All-Ireland Titles | 4 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2001–2011 | Galway | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Connacht titles | 3 | ||
All-Irelands | 1 | ||
NFL | 0 | ||
All Stars | 1 |
Kieran Fitzgerald (born 1 January 1981) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Corofin between 1998 and 2020 and for the Galway county team between 2000 and 2011.
Fitzgerald won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal in 2001. [1] That year he also received an All Star He was named Galway captain in 2007, and made his International Rules Series debut in 2006. [2]
Fitzgerald dated Mairéad Meehan, a sister of the Galway inter-county footballers Declan, Michael, Noel and Tomás Meehan. [1] They had met after the 2001 National Football League final, but Mairéad Meehan died of osteosarcoma at the age of 25 in late January 2007. [1] He later met his wife Emer (née Flaherty). [1]
Fitzgerald was the subject of a Laochra Gael episode, which aired in February 2022. [1]