Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Níall Ó Corcráin | ||
Sport | Hurling | ||
Position | Left Corner Back | ||
Born | Ballinasloe, Ireland | 9 July 1982||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Occupation | Games Promotion Officer | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
2008– | Meelick-Eyrecourt Kilmacud Crokes | ||
Club titles | |||
Dublin titles | 2 | ||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2008–2016 | Dublin | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Leinster titles | 1 | ||
NHL | 1 |
Niall Corcoran (born 9 July 1982) is a hurling coach and former player at senior level for the Dublin county team until 2016.
He won the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship with Galway in 2000. [1] He made his championship debut with Dublin against Westmeath in the quarter-final of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship. [2] Corcoran won the National Hurling League with Dublin in 2011.
Corcoran coaches with Kilmacud Crokes. Corcoran is easy to pick out on the pitch,[ citation needed ] as he wears a distinctive black and red Mycro helmet.[ citation needed ]
In 2018, Corcoran joined Eddie Brennan's Laois hurling backroom team. [3] After coaching the Laois hurlers, he joined Davy Fitzgerald's Wexford backroom team when Brennan left the Laois job at the end of 2020. [4]
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