Martin Carney

Martin Cearney
Personal information
Irish name Máirtín Ó Cearnaigh
Sport Gaelic football
Born 1952
Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland
Occupation Retired secondary school principal
Club(s)
Years Club
Aodh Ruadh
Castlebar Mitchels
Club titles
Donegal titles 2
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1970-1978
1979-1989
Donegal
Mayo
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 4
Ulster titles 2
All-Irelands 0
NFL 0
All Stars 0

Martin Carney (Irish: Máirtín Ó Cearnaigh) is a Gaelic games commentator for RTÉ and TV analyst with The Sunday Game.

Early life

Born in Bundoran, County Donegal, although he was raised in Ballyshannon, Carney was educated at Saint Eunan's College, Letterkenny, and is the older brother of former college president Michael Carney.

Career

Carney is a former inter-county footballer for Donegal and Mayo.

In 2002 and 2003, he was one of the selection team for the Coca-Cola International Rules Series.

Carney emerged as favourite to take over from John Maughan as manager of the Mayo senior football side but quickly ruled himself out of contention. John O'Mahony became manager, with Carney acting as a statistician and video analyst.

He has experience of management with Mayo in the past, taking the U21 football side to two All-Ireland finals in 1995 and 1995, both which they failed to win, as the minors did in 1991 also.[1]

He also starred in the 2001 film On the Edge.[2]

Career statistics

Team Season Provincial All-Ireland Total
AppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScore
Donegal 1971 10-0100-0010-01
1972 41-0211-0152-03
1973 00-0000-0000-00
1974 40-0610-0050-06
1975 10-0700-0010-07
1976 10-0200-0010-02
1977 10-0700-0010-07
1978 10-0100-0010-01
Mayo 1979 10-0000-0010-00
1980 30-0600-0030-06
1981 31-1010-0141-11
1982 10-0600-0010-06
1983 31-0800-0031-08
1984 20-0100-0020-01
1985 20-0020-0040-00
1986 20-0000-0020-00
1987 20-0100-0020-01
1988 31-0810-0241-10
1989 20-0000-0020-00
Total 374-6661-04435-70

References

  1. "Mayo to consider Kearns". RTÉ Sport. 5 September 2005. Retrieved 5 September 2005.
  2. "Martin Carney". IMDb.
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