Dara Ó Cinnéide

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Dara Ó Cinnéide
Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Place of birth	County Kerry , Ireland
Club information
Club	An Ghaeltacht
Position	Forward
Club(s)*
Club	Years	Apps (scores)
An Ghaeltacht	?-?
Inter-County
County	Kerry
Position	Forward
Inter-County(ies)**
County	Years	Apps (scores)
Kerry	1994-2005
Senior Inter-County Titles
Munster Titles	8
All-Ireland	3
* club appearances and scores correct as of {{{clupdate}}}. **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of {{{icupdate}}}.

Dara Ó Cinnéide , born 25 April 1975) is an All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry.

Ó Cinnéide plays his GAA club football for An Ghaeltacht. He made his Kerry County football team debut versus Donegal in a National Football League game in March 1994. Dara is a radio broadcaster with the Irish Language station Radio na Gaeltachta. His preferred position is corner forward. Dara is the producer of the Radió na Gaeltachta show An Saol Ó Dheas.[1] He is a former student of Dingle CBS

[edit] All-Ireland

He captained Kerry to All-Ireland glory against the Mayo team in 2004. He finished that season as the highest scoring Kerry player with a total of 2-25 (31 points). He was lauded for giving his after-game speech in the Irish language. when he played on Kerry's All-Ireland winning side in the year 2000, and he scored a total of 4 points in th final against Galway. He also won the All-Ireland with Kerry in 1997.

[edit] Seachtain na Gaeilge

Dara and Seán Óg Ó hAilpín are the main two personalities used to promote the annual Irish language event known as Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week).

Preceded by Peter Canavan (Tyrone)

All-Ireland Football Final winning captain 2004

Succeeded by Brian Dooher (Tyrone)

[edit] External links

• Kerry GAA Website
• An Ghaeltacht Website (Irish Language Website)