Dave Geaney

Dr Dave Geaney

Personal information

Sport

Gaelic football

Born

Club management

Years	Club
	Castleisland Desmonds

Inter-county management

Years	County
2007-2008	Kerry

Inter-county titles

County	League	Province	All-Ireland
Kerry
1	1

Dr Dave Geaney is an All-Ireland medal holder (1959 and 1962). He played in his first All-Ireland final in 1959 at the age of 19^[1] having played schoolboys rugby for Munster earlier in the year. He played in the All-Ireland semi-final in 1962 against Dublin.He played in 3 Munster finals. He was manager of the Castleisland Desmonds Senior team for a good number of years and was trainer when they won the All-Ireland Club title in 1985 when they defeated St. Vincent's (Dublin) in the final on St. Patrick's Day. He was manager for the glory period of Desmonds, and highlights include first North Kerry Senior Football Championship win, Intermediate and club championship wins, two All-Ireland club finals in a row(1984 and 1985) as well as being manager for Desmonds only county final appearance in a county final when they were beaten by eventual All-Ireland Champions, Dr. Crokes. He was also manager of Castleisland District team in the 1979 County final. Geaney was a Kerry GAA medical officer from 1975 to 2012.^[2] He was named by new Kerry manager Pat O'Shea as a selector for the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.^[2] Kerry won the 2007 championship and reached the 2008 final.

References

Kerry – 1959 National Football League Champions (5th title)

1 J. Culloty 2 J. O'Shea 3 Jack Dowling 4 T. Lyons 5 Seán Murphy 6 K. Coffey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 Mick O'Connell (C) 9 Séamus Murphy 10 D. McAuliffe 11 T. Long 12 P. Sheehy 13 D. Geaney 14 John Dowling 15 T. Lyne

Kerry – 1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (19th title)

1 J. Culloty 2 J. O'Shea 3 N. Sheehy 4 T. Lyons 5 Seán Murphy 6 K. Coffey 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 Mick O'Connell (c) 9 Séamus Murphy 10 D. McAuliffe 11 T. Long 12 P. Sheehy 13 D. Geaney 14 John Dowling 15 T. Lyne Subs used Jack Dowling for T. Lyons Moss O'Connell for Mick O'Connell G. McMahon for D. Geaney

Kerry – 1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 J. Culloty 2 D. O'Sullivan 3 N. Sheehy 4 M. Morris 5 S. Murphy 6 P. O'Donoghue 7 J. D. O'Connor (c) 8 D. O'Sullivan 9 M. O'Connell 10 V. Lucey 11 P. Griffin 12 D. O'Shea 13 B. O'Callagha 14 M. O'Dwyer 15 J. J. Barrett Subs used D. Geaney for V. Lucey J. O'Shea for J. J. Barrett Trainer J. Brosnan

Kerry – 1961 National Football League Champions (6th title)

1 J. Culloty 2 Jack Dowling 3 N. Sheehy 4 T. Lyons 5 K. Coffey 6 T. Long 7 M. O'Dwyer 8 M. O'Connell 9 Séamus Murphy 10 D. McAuliffe 11 B. Sheehy 12 P. Sheehy 13 D. Geaney 14 John Dowling 15 T. O'Dowd

Kerry – 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (35th title)

Subs used

18 S. O'Sullivan for Galvin
20 Darran O'Sullivan for Declan O'Sullivan
26 T. Griffin for Young
21 M. F. Russell for Sheehan
19 M. Lyons for Reidy

Subs not used: 16 K. Cremin; 17 M. Quirke; 22 D. Bohane; 23 P. O'Connor; 24 R. Ó Flatharta; 25 K. O'Leary; 27 R. Hussey; 28 D. Walsh; 29 T. Walsh; 30 D. Quill

Manager: P. O'Shea

Manager: D. Geaney; S. Geaney

Castleisland Desmonds – 1985 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Champions (1st title)

1 C. Nelligan 2 D. Ó Ciarubháin 3 B. Lyons (c) 4 W. King 5 D. Lyons 6 M. J. Kearney 7 P. O'Callaghan 8 M. O'Connor 9 D. Hanafin 10 W. O'Connor 11 C. Kearney 12 D. Lyne 13 J. O'Connor 14 D. Buckley 15 P. Horan Subs used M. Downey for J. O'Connor J. Lyons for D. Lyne Manager D. Geaney

Castleisland Desmonds – 1986 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship runners-up

1 C. Nelligan 2 D. Ó Ciarubháin 3 B. Lyons 4 W. King (c) 5 J. O'Connor 6 M. J. Kearney 7 P. O'Callaghan 8 M. O'Connor 9 D. Hanafin 10 W. O'Connor 11 C. Kearney 12 D. Lyne 13 P. Horan 14 D. Buckley 15 J. Lordan Subs used M. Downey for P. Horan Manager D. Geaney

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