Darragh Egan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Forward / Goalkeeper | ||
| Born |
5 February 1986 Kildangan, County Tipperary | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Nickname | The Moving Mountain | ||
| Occupation | Primary School Principal | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| Kildangan GAA | |||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
| NUI Galway | |||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2005-2015 | Tipperary | 12 (3-8) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Munster titles | 2 (as sub) | ||
| All-Irelands | 1 (as sub) | ||
| NHL | 1 | ||
Darragh Egan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Kiladangan and previously with the Tipperary senior inter-county team as a forward and as a goalkeeper.
He played for NUI Galway in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and was part of the side that lost the 2007 final.[1]
Egan made his debut with the Tipperary in February 2005 when he lined out at full-forward in the League against Down, scoring 1-1. On 5 September 2010, Egan was a non-playing substitute as Tipperary won their 26th All Ireland title, beating reigning champions Kilkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final, preventing Kilkenny from achieving a historic 5-in-a-row, it was Egan's first All-Ireland winners medal.[2] Egan was the substitute goalkeeper for Tipperary in the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.[3]
Egan, his wife Sarah and mother Mary featured in an episode of RTÉ’s Room to Improve in 2016 following his inter-county retirement; by that stage, at the age of thirty, Egan was principal of Kildangan national school.[4]
In October 2018, Egan was named by new Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy as a coach of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 2019.[5][6]
References
- ^ "Major Clare influence on NUIG Fitzgibbon campaign". The Clare Champion.
- ^ "Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality". Irish Independent. 6 September 2010.
- ^ "Forward, goalkeeper and now coach for Tipperary in All-Ireland final battle with Kilkenny". The 42. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
- ^ "Darragh Egan's mentor plan gave Kiladangan room to improve". Irish Examiner. 15 October 2016.
- ^ "Dunne and Egan confirmed in Tipp backroom team". Hogan Stand. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- ^ "Sitting in the eye of the storm - Tipperary's fresh face on the sideline". RTE Sport. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
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