- Darren Gleeson
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Darren Gleeson Personal information Sport Hurling Position Goalkeeper Born 19 March 1981
Portroe, County TipperaryHeight 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) Occupation Financial Advisor Club(s) Years Club 1990s-present Portroe Club Titles Tipperary titles 0 Inter-county(ies) Years County Apps (scores) 2008-present Tipperary 2 (0-00) Inter-county titles Munster titles 3 (3 as sub) All Irelands 1 (1 as sub) NHL 1 (1 as sub) All Stars 0 Darren Gleeson (born 19 March 1981 in Portroe, County Tipperary) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Portroe and has been the sub-goalkeeper on the Tipperary senior inter-county team since 2008. He made his Tipperary championship debut in the 2009 Munster Championship coming on as a substitute against Cork.He has twice been named Player of the Tournament at the Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Sevens and was part of the Portroe team which won the title in 1999. Darren was captain of the Portroe senior team which reached its first North Tipperary senior hurling final in 2009. He kept a clean sheet, but Eire Og, Nenagh scored enough points to win convincingly.
On 5 September 2010, Gleeson was a non-playing substitute as Tipperary won their 26th All Ireland title, beating reigning champions Killkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final, preventing Kilkenny from achieving an historic 5-in-a-row, it was Gleeson's first All-Ireland winners medal.[1] In July 2011 he played his second championship game for Tipperary in the 2011 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, coming on as a sixty fourth minute substitute for Brendan Cummins.[2]
References
- ^ "Rampant Tipp deny Cats immortality". Irish Independent. 2010-09-06. http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/rampant-tipp-deny-cats-immortality-2326052.html. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
- ^ "Munster massacre: Tipp in seventh heaven". Irish Independent. 11 July 2011. http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/munster-massacre-tipp-in-seventh-heaven-2817983.html. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
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Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Runners-up 2009 1 B. Cummins | 2 P. Stapleton | 3 P. Maher | 4 P. Curran | 5 D. Fanning | 6 C. O'Mahony (vc) | 7 B. Maher | 8 J. Woodlock | 9 S. McGrath | 10 P. Kerwick | 11 S. Callanan | 12 J. O'Brien | 13 N. McGrath | 14 E. Kelly | 15 L. Corbett |
Reference: Tipperary GAA Archives Database searchable by team, year and/or player name.
Subs: C. O'Brien | M. Webster | D. Gleeson | P. Bourke | É. Buckley | B. Dunne | D. FitzGerald | S. Hennessy | P. Kelly | P. Maher | G. Ryan | W. Ryan (c) | T. Scroope | T. Stapleton | G. Kennedy | S. Maher | D. Egan | H. Maloney | J. Devane | M. Cahill |
Manager: L. Sheedy |
Coach: É. O'Shea | Selector: M. Ryan | Trainer: C. O'Neill |Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions 2010 (26th title) 1 B. Cummins | 2 P. Stapleton | 3 P. Curran | 4 M. Cahill | 5 D. Fanning | 6 C. O'Mahony | 7 Pádraic Maher | 8 B. Maher | 9 S. McGrath | 10 G. Ryan | 11 Patrick Maher | 12 J. O'Brien | 13 N. McGrath | 14 E. Kelly (c) | 15 L. Corbett |
Reference: Tipperary GAA Archives Database searchable by team, year and/or player name.
Subs used: C. O'Brien for C. O'Mahony | S. Callanan for J. O'Brien | B. Dunne for S. McGrath | S. Hennessy for B. Maher | D. Young for D. Fanning |
Subs not used: D. Gleeson | P. Bourke | J. Brennan | D. Egan | T. Hammersley | M. Heffernan | P. Kerwick | S. Maher | H. Maloney | B. O'Meara |
Manager: L. Sheedy |
Coach: É. O'Shea | Selector: M. Ryan | Trainer: C. O'Neill |Tipperary - All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Runners-up 2011 1 B. Cummins | 2 P. Stapleton | 3 P. Curran | 4 M. Cahill | 5 J. O'Keeffe | 6 C. O'Mahony | 7 Pádraic Maher | 8 G. Ryan | 9 S. McGrath | 10 S. Callanan | 11 N. McGrath | 12 Patrick Maher | 13 E. Kelly (c) | 14 J. O'Brien | 15 L. Corbett |
Reference: Tipperary GAA Archives Database searchable by team, year and/or player name.
Subs used: B. Maher for J. O'Keeffe | B. Dunne for S. Callanan | P. Bourke for S. McGrath | D. Young for C. O'Mahony | J. O'Neill for J. O'Brien |
Subs not used: D. Gleeson | P. Kerwick | S. Lillis | T. Stapleton | J. Woodlock | B. O'Meara |
Manager: D. Ryan |
Coach: T. Dunne | Selector: M. Gleeson | Trainer: C. O'Neill |Categories:- 1981 births
- Living people
- Portroe hurlers
- Tipperary hurlers
- Hurling goalkeepers
- People from County Tipperary
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