Ciarán Hyland is a

Gaelic football Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score ...

er from

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606 in Ireland, 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces ...

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. He plays with the

Wicklow Wicklow ( ; , meaning 'church of the toothless one'; ) is the county town of County Wicklow in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the east of Ireland, south of Dublin. According to the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, it had ...

intercounty team with whom he won a

Tommy Murphy Cup The Tommy Murphy Cup was a Gaelic football competition, featuring senior county teams eliminated from the early stages of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and also Kilkenny county football team, Kilkenny when not fielding a team in t ...

medal in 2007. He won €124,000 during an appearance on the National Lottery's summer scratch-card TV game show '' The Big Money Game'' in 2009. In September 2009 Hyland was nominated for a GAA All Star Award, along with

teammate Leighton Glynn. In 2012 he was part of the

team that won the National League Div 4 title scoring a goal in the win over

Fermanagh Historically, Fermanagh (), as opposed to the modern County Fermanagh, was a kingdom of Gaelic Ireland, associated geographically with present-day County Fermanagh. ''Fir Manach'' originally referred to a distinct kin group of alleged Laigin or ...

. In the summer of 2018 Hyland decided to call time on his inter-county football career after playing for 16years.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney Gaelic footballers Wicklow inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Wicklow-gaelic-football-bio-stub