- Graham Canty
Infobox GAA player
code= Football
sport = Gaelic football
name = Graham Canty
irish =
fullname = Graham Canty
placeofbirth =Bantry
countryofbirth =County Cork
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county = Cork
province = Munster
club =Bantry Blues
clposition = Full-back
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clcounty =
clprovince=
clallireland =
counties = Cork
icposition = Full-back
icyears = 2000s
icapps(points) =
icprovince = 2
icallireland = 0
allstars = 1
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icupdate =Graham Canty (born 1980) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays
Gaelic football with his local clubBantry Blues and with the Cork senior football team. Canty has won twoMunster Senior Football Championship medals. He was awarded an All-Star in October 2007. [http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/footballallstars2007.html]Early and club career
Graham Canty was a Cork Minor in 1998 and was on the Cork Under-21 side for three successive seasons from 1999-2001, captaining them to their Munster Final win in April 2001. He also captained the Cork IT Sigerson Cup team. Canty was the youngest member of the 1998 Bantry senior team which won the
Cork Senior Football Championship . He also won a West Cork U-21 medal in 1999. [http://www.westcork.com/bantryblues/corkban.html]enior career with Cork
Canty established himself at full back for the Cork senior team in the 2001 campaign and performed well against players such as Maurice Fizgerald,
Dara Ó Cinnéide andPádraig Joyce .In 2002 Cork captured the Munster title after a victory over Tipperary in a replay. The subsequent All-Ireland semi-final saw Cork take on Kerry. It was an historic occasion as it was the first time that the two sides had met in Croke Park. Unfortunately, Cork were trounced on a score line of 3-19 to 2-7. The year ended with the Cork hurling team going on strike. In turn, the football team joined in a sympathy strike. The players, who had been seeking better conditions, refused to play or train with the county again until the dispute with the county board was resolved.
Following the strike the fortunes of the Cork football team took a turn for the worse. A series of defeats in 2003 and 2004 saw the Cork football team almost at an all-time low. In 2005 Cork narrowly lost the Munster final but qualified for the All-Ireland semi-final where Kerry defeated them comfortably by 1-19 to 1-9. In 2006 Cork won their first Munster title in four years following a defeat of Kerry. The two sides met again in the All-Ireland semi-final, however, in a similar pattern Kerry were victorious. In 2007 Cork lost their Munster crown to Kerry, however, they made use of the qualifiers and found themselves in the All-Ireland final. Kerry, the old rivals, provided the opposition in the first all-Munster All-Ireland final. The game started on a level pegging. However, Kerry ran riot and captured the title with a 3-13 to 1-9 victory. It was one of Cork's most humiliating defeats. In 2008, Cork won the Munster title, beating Kerry in the final. However, Kerry again defeated Cork in a replay in the All-Ireland semi-final despite an outstanding performance from Canty. [http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/the-game-at-a-glance-1466661.html]
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