Kieran McKeever
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Ciarán Mac Íomhair | ||
| Sport | Dual player | ||
| Football Position: | Right Corner Back | ||
| Hurling Position: | Half Forward | ||
| Born |
March 12, 1968 County Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
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| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Occupation | Joiner | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
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Dungiven Kevin Lynchs |
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| Club titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Derry titles | 3 | 5/6/7/8? | |
| Ulster titles | 1 | - | |
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1988-2001 | Derry | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Football | Hurling | ||
| Ulster Titles | 2 | 2 | |
| All-Ireland Titles | 1 | - | |
| League titles | 4 | - | |
| All-Stars | 1 | - | |
Kieran McKeever (Irish: Ciarán Mac Íomhair; born 12 March 1968) is a former Irish dual player who played Gaelic football and hurling with Derry in the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. He is chiefly known as a footballer and was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side, also won Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1993 and 1998. With Derry footballers he usually played at corner-back and is regarded as one of the best defenders and tightest markers to have played the game.
In 2000 McKeever became the first Ulster player to be nominated for All Stars in both football and hurling in the same season. He won the football All Star, but narrowly missed out on the hurling accolade. Had he have won the double All Star, he would have become only the second player ever after Cork legend Ray Cummins to win both awards in the same year.
He has won Irish News Ulster All-Star awards and was named right-corner back on the Irish News Team of the Decade in 2004. The public voted him onto the All-Time Derry Football Team via an online poll in 2007. McKeever played club football with St. Canice's GAC Dungiven and club hurling with Kevin Lynchs.
Kieran McKeever was born into a footballing household. His father Thomas was a Derry minor panelist in the mid 1960s and his brothers Emmet and Cathal have both represented Derry and New York at hurling and football. In 2008 Cathal transferred to Tyrone side Carrickmore.
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