Peter Keane (Gaelic footballer)

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Peter Keane (born 1971)[

Kerry senior football team.[1][2] As a player, he lined out with South Kerry Championship club St Mary's
.

Keane is one of nine children.

Maurice Fitzgerald.[3] In 1988, the pair won a Kerry under-21 title for South Kerry. However, his county career was limited to minor (1989), county junior (1990) and under-21 (captaining the 1992 team to a Munster title).[3]

He spent four years working in a bank before departing to work in retail in Killorglin.[3] He is considered shrewd.[3] In 2009, he managed Beaufort's junior footballers past his own St Mary's club in the county semi-final and led them to victory over Dromid in the final.[3] He began managing his native club St Mary's in 2010, travelling down from Killorglin especially to do so, and led them to victory in the South Kerry final.[3] Keane's younger brother Ray was playing for the team, this before his own foray into management with St Finbarr's.[3] After leading St Mary's to the 2011 All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship, Keane joined Kerry's youth development system and managed the Kerry under-16s.[3] County minor manager Mickey O'Sullivan brought him in as a selector in 2011, telling The Kerryman newspaper: "Nobody knows more than Peter does".[3] This was accidental, only coming about because Seán O'Sullivan left a vacancy by coming out of retirement to play for Kerry.[3]

Keane stayed with the Kerry minor team for two years before joining the

2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.[3]

After losing to Cork in the 2020 Munster Senior Football Championship semi-final, Keane climbed Carrauntoohil; there he fell and was rescued by helicopter, requiring surgery on his shoulder after being airlifted to hospital. Keane spoke about the incident ahead of his county's 2021 National Football League opening game against Galway, saying: "I had a very innocuous fall, it was just a slip, and I put my hand back to save myself and unfortunately I dislocated my shoulder".[4]

Honours

Player

Kerry

Manager

St Mary's
Kerry

References

  1. ^ "Peter Keane opens gates on new Kerry". Irish Examiner. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Peter Keane: The Kerry public know that this will take time". RTE Sport. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Crowe, Dermot (8 September 2019). "Quiet man Keane racks up the mileage to get Kingdom on road back to higher ground". Sunday Independent. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  4. ^ "'I had a very innocuous fall, and I put my hand back to save myself and unfortunately I dislocated my shoulder': Mountain tumble added injury to insult but now the only way is up for Kingdom". Irish Independent. 11 May 2021.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Kerry Minor Football Manager
2015-2018 		Succeeded by
James Costello
Preceded by Kerry Senior Football Manager
2018-2021 		Succeeded by
Achievements
Preceded by All-Ireland Junior Club Football Final
winning manager
2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by All-Ireland Minor Football Final
winning manager
2016-2018 		Succeeded by
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