Darragh Egan

Darragh Egan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Kiladangan and previously with the Tipperary senior inter-county team as a forward and as a goalkeeper.

Darragh Egan
Personal information
Sport Hurling
Position Forward / Goalkeeper
Born (1986-02-05) 5 February 1986
Kildangan, County Tipperary
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Occupation Primary teacher
Club(s)
Years Club
Kildangan GAA
Colleges(s)
Years College
NUI Galway
Inter-county(ies)
Years County Apps (scores)
2005-2015
Tipperary 12 (3-8)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles 2 (as sub)
All-Irelands 1 (as sub)
NHL 1

He played for NUI Galway in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and was part of the side that lost the 2007 final.[1]

Egan made his debut with the Tipperary in February 2005 when he lined out at full-forward in the League against Down, scoring 1-1. On 5 September 2010, Egan was a non-playing substitute as Tipperary won their 26th All Ireland title, beating reigning champions Kilkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final, preventing Kilkenny from achieving a historic 5-in-a-row, it was Egan's first All-Ireland winners medal.[2] Egan was the substitute goalkeeper for Tipperary in the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.[3]

Egan, his wife Sarah and mother Mary featured in an episode of RTÉ’s Room to Improve in 2016 following his inter-county retirement; by that stage, at the age of thirty, Egan was principal of Kildangan national school.[4]

In October 2018, Egan was named by new Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy as a coach of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 2019.[5][6]

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