Darragh Egan

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.

Darragh Egan
Personal information
Sport Hurling
Position Forward / Goalkeeper
Born (1986-02-05) 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

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
  1. "Major Clare influence on NUIG Fitzgibbon campaign". The Clare Champion.
  2. "Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality". Irish Independent. 6 September 2010.
  3. "Forward, goalkeeper and now coach for Tipperary in All-Ireland final battle with Kilkenny". The 42. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. "Darragh Egan's mentor plan gave Kiladangan room to improve". Irish Examiner. 15 October 2016.
  5. "Dunne and Egan confirmed in Tipp backroom team". Hogan Stand. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. "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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