Graham Geraghty

Graham Geraghty (born 17 May 1973), is a former Gaelic football player for the Meath senior football team. While still an inter-county player, he stood for the Fine Gael political party at the 2007 Irish general election; he was not elected.

Graham Geraghty
Personal information
Irish name Graham Mag Oireachtaigh
Sport Gaelic Football
Position Left Half Forward
Born (1973-05-17) 17 May 1973
Drogheda, Ireland
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Club(s)
Years Club
1990-2008
2009-
 Seneschalstown
Clann na nGael
Club titles
Meath titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County Apps (scores)
1991-2012
 Meath (15-82)
Inter-county titles
Leinster titles 3
All-Irelands 2
NFL 2
All Stars 2

Playing career

Geraghty represented his country against Australia in the International Rules Series in 1999, 2000 and 2006.

Geraghty has also won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1990 and an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 1993. He has been named as the Meath Player of the Year on two occasions in 1999 and more recently in 2006. Geraghty won the Martin Donnelly Cup on four occasions with Leinster.

At club level, Graham won the Meath Senior Football Championship with Seneschalstown in 1994. He has also won the Meath Under-21 Championship with Seneschalstown in 1992.

Although his greatest achievements have come in football, he is a versatile athlete, with various honours in the fields of athletics, soccer (having traveled to London for trials with British club Arsenal F.C. as a teenager, and signing for Bohemians in September 1994,[1] he also played for Drogheda United reserves in the 1996-97 League of Ireland season), and rugby (playing for much of his adult life with Irish side Buccaneers).[2]

In late 2003, he published his autobiography, titled Misunderstood, which documents his childhood, adolescence, and sporting career up until the early years of the 21st century.

In 2007, Geraghty helped Meath back to the top and scored a magnificent goal against Tyrone to help earn the team a place in the semifinal.

On 23 July 2008, Geraghty retired following Meath's exit from the 2008 Championship at the hands of Limerick. On 20 May 2011, just three days after his 38th birthday, Geraghty returned to the Meath panel after a three-year absence.[3][4][5][6] He came on as a substitute in Meath's first game of the Championship against Kildare at Croke Park, scoring a goal which was wrongly disallowed as a square ball.[7] In 2012, Geraghty announced his second retirement from inter-county football and became a selector.[8]

In December 2013, Geraghty confirmed that he will play Sigerson Cup football for Blanchardstown IT in 2014 as he is enrolled in a Social and Community Development course at the college.[9]

Honours
Club
Meath
Leinster
  • 4 Railway Cup 1996 1997 2001 2002 2005
Ireland
Individual
  • 2 All-Star 1994 1999
  • In May 2020, the Irish Independent named Geraghty as one of the "dozens of brilliant players" who narrowly missed selection for its "Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years".[10]

Managerial

In November 2017, Graham was announced as the new Intermediate Football manager for Glen Emmets GFC in Tullyallen, Co. Louth.

Political career

In 2006, Geraghty was selected by the Fine Gael political party to contest the general election of 2007 in his home constituency of Meath West.[11] However, he performed poorly in the election, obtaining only 1,284 first preference votes - the lowest of the three Fine Gael candidates standing - and was eliminated from the race after the fourth count.[12]

Acting career

Geraghty appeared in acclaimed 1998 Irish kung fu movie Fatal Deviation opposite Boyzone's Mikey Graham. He had no lines.

Personal life

Geraghty is married to Amanda and they have four children, Sophia, Lauren, Brandon and Beau

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References
  1. The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1994/0917/Pg015.html#Ar01511:8D4C7690BC8E. Missing or empty |title= (help) (subscription required)
  2. "Graham Geraghty: The timeline of a life less ordinary". Irish Independent. 28 May 2011. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  3. "Shock return for Geraghty". Irish Independent. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 4 August 2012. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  4. "Graham Geraghty returns to Meath panel". RTÉ Sport. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2011.
  5. O'Riordan, Ian (20 May 2011). "Geraghty back in Meath squad". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 May 2011.
  6. "Graham Geraghty returns to Meath panel at aged 38". The Score. 20 May 2011. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  7. "Kildare 0-16 Meath 0-10". RTÉ Sport. 5 June 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  8. "End of the road admits Geraghty as Meath plan without former talisman". The Score. 17 July 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
  9. "Ageless Geraghty to finally grace Sigerson stage". Irish Independent. 12 December 2013. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  10. Breheny, Martin (30 May 2020). "Revealed: The Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years". Irish Independent. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  11. "Geraghty to run for Fine Gael". RTÉ News. 12 December 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2007.
  12. Archived 30 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Preceded by
Ray Silke
(Galway)		 All-Ireland Senior Football
winning captain
1999		 Succeeded by
Seamus Moynihan
(Kerry)
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