Michael Duignan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Mícheál Ó Duigeanáin | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Right corner-forward | ||
| Born | 1968 Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland |
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| Occupation | Auctioneer | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
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St. Rynagh's Raheen Durrow |
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| Club titles | |||
| Offaly titles | 4 | ||
| Leinster titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 1987-2001 | Offaly | 43 (7-37) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Leinster titles | 5 | ||
| All-Irelands | 2 | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
Michael Duignan (born 21 February 1968) is a retired Irish hurling manager and former dual player. He played hurling and Gaelic football with his local club St. Rynagh's and with the Offaly senior inter-county teams from the 1980s until the early 2000s. Duignan served as manager of the Meath senior hurling team from 2001 until 2003. He has since become a Gaelic games pundit for RTÉ.
Duignan was born in Banagher, County Offaly, where he played his club hurling with the famous St. Rynagh's club. He enjoyed some success at underage levels before winning a senior county title in 1987. Three more county titles followed in 1990, 1992 and 1993, with Duignan converting this last county win into a Leinster club title. Shortly after his retirement from inter-county hurling in 2001 Duignan, who at that stage was living in Naas, County Kildare, transferred to the Raheen club in Kildare. In 2004 he moved clubs again, this time to Durrow where he expected to end his career, however, in 2006 Duignan returned to his native club of St. Rynagh's.
Duignan first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Offaly minor hurling team in the mid-1980s. He won Leinster and All-Ireland honours at minor level in 1986, the year that he also made his senior inter-county debut. In 1988, 1989 and 1990 Duignan won his first three Leinster titles, however, Offaly were defeated on each occasion in the subsequent All-Ireland semi-final. The most embarrassing of these defeats wa sin 1989 when an unfancied Antrim team got the better of Offaly. There was some consolation in 1991 when Duignan helped Offaly to win its very first, and since then its only, National Hurling League title.
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