Brendan McManamon
Brendan McManamon (born 1982) is a Gaelic football player for Dublin and St Judes in Ireland.
McManamon was on Dublin's winning team for the 2008 O'Byrne Cup which defeated Longford in the final.[1]' He scored 0-01 in the game which saw Dublin win by 2-12 to 1-14. Brendan has been a Dublin senior panelist for the last 3 years and has many championship appearances to his name, making the first of these against Louth on June 8, 2008 in Croke Park coming on as a 61st minute sub for his boyhood hero Jason Sherlock. The highlight of Brendan's club career came in October 2009, when he was part of the Naomh Jude senior side who narrowly lost out to Ballyboden Saint Endas in their first county final. Brendan scored a point in his first league game in 2010 against Derry at Parnell Park.[2]
Brendan is the brother of current Dublin senior footballer Kevin McManamon.
Brendan is famous for retiring Meath gaelic football legend Graham Geraghty, who has been quoted as saying he "could have played on for several more years if it were not for Brendan serving up a dose of reality as to the speed of the modern game".