Fiachra Breathnach

Fiachra Breathnach
Personal information
Irish name	Fiachra Breathnach
Sport	Gaelic Football
Position	Left Half Forward
Born	21 November 1986 (age 37); Galway, Ireland
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Occupation	Barrister
Club(s)
Years	Club
2003–2015; 2016–	Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir; St Vincents
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
2006–2011	Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	1

Fiachra Breathnach (born 21 November 1986) is an Irish Gaelic footballer from Galway. Breathnach played his club football with Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir before transferring to St Vincents, and is a former county footballer for the Galway senior football panel.

Underage achievements

Breathnach first represented his County at u14 level. He represented Galway City and West at u16 level in the Ted Webb competition in 2001 and again in 2002. He was a member of the Galway minor panels which won the Connaught championships in 2003 and 2004. Galway were beaten in the All Ireland Minor Football Championship Quarter-final in 2004 by Down by a single point, 0-15 to 1-11. Breathnach contributed 1-1 from midfield.^{[citation needed]}

Breathnach attended St Jarlath's College, Tuam and was a member of the 2003 team that contested the Hogan Cup Final. Breathnach captained the

St. Jarlaths College, Tuam Senior Football Team in 2004. He was chosen to represent Ireland as part of the International rules schoolboy series of that year.^[1]

The Irish team recorded an historic first ever series victory over the Australians in the u18 International Rules Series. Breathnach scored eleven points in the second test and three points in the third test.^[citation needed]

He then proceeded to win a 'Fresher A' intervarsity title with

All-Ireland U-21 Football Championship with Galway.^[2]

Breathnach captained the

NUI,Galway reached the semi-finals of the competition in both years but were defeated by Killerarin and Cortoon Shamrocks respectively.^{[citation needed}

] He also captained the

NUI,Galway Men's Senior Gaelic Football Team in the "Sigerson" interversity^{[check spelling]} competition in 2008.^{[citation needed}

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