Graham Geraghty (footballer)

infobox GAA player


name=Graham Geraghty
placeofbirth=Drogheda, County Louth
countryofbirth=Ireland
nickname=
sport=Gaelic football
code=Football
county=Meath
province=Leinster
club=Clan na Gael
clposition=-
clubs=Seneschalstown
clyears=?
clapps(points)=?
clcounty=2 (1 Seneschalstown
1 clan na gael)
clprovince=1 (2007 Clan na Gael)
county=Meath
counties=Meath
icyears= 1991-2008
icposition=-
icapps(points)= (15-82)
icprovince=3
icallireland=2
allstars=2
icupdate=17:31, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
clupdate=|

Graham Geraghty is a former Gaelic football player for the Meath senior football team.

Football career

Geraghty achieved numerous honours during his playing career with the Meath football team. He received GAA All Stars Awards in 1994 and 1999. He won three Leinster Senior Football Championship medals with Meath in 1996, 1999 and 2001. He won his first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1996, and his second in 1999, when he captained the team.

Geraghty represented his country against Australia in the International Rules Series in 1999, 2000 and 2006. [1]

Geraghty has also won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1990 and a 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 travelled to London for trials with British club Arsenal F.C. as a teenager), and rugby (playing for much of his adult life with Irish side Buccaneers).

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 semi-final.

Subsequently Graham Geraghty retired following Meath's exit from the 2008 Championship at the hands of Limerick.

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. [http://www.rte.ie/sport/2006/1212/geraghtyg.html] 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 [http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/results/constit-36.html] .

Acting career

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

External links

* [http://grahamgeraghty.finegael.ie/representatives/common/index.cfm Graham Geraghty Official Fine Gael Website]
* [http://meath.gaa.ie/ Official Meath Website]
* [http://www.seneschalstowngaa.com/ Seneschalstown GAA Website]