Ciaran McManus is an Irish former

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 who played for the Tubber club and for the Offaly senior county team from 1996 to 2011 and won a

Leinster Senior Football Championship The Leinster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Leinster Championship and shortened to Leinster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Leinster GAA, Leinster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Asso ...

medal in 1997 and a

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Division 1 in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

and Division 2 in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

. Before breaking into the senior team he helped Offaly to win the

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in 1995. He played for

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in the

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in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. He also played for UCD, winning a

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in 2002. At one time McManus returned from Finland and Germany to attend training sessions and to play in games. In 2004, McManus became involved in a dispute with the Offaly County Board over its selection of a new manager.

Honours

(1): 1995 *

(1): 1997 * National Football League, Division 1 (1): 1998 * National Football League, Division 2 (1): 2004 * National Football League, Division 4 (1): 1997 *

Sigerson Cup The Sigerson Cup is the trophy for the premier Gaelic football championship among Higher Education institutions (Universities, Colleges and Institutes of Technology) in Ireland. It traditionally begins in mid January and ends in late February. T ...

(1): 1995 *

(1): 2002 *

Railway Cup The GAA Interprovincial Championship () or Railway Cup (''Corn an Iarnróid'') is the name of two annual Gaelic football and hurling competitions held between the provinces of Ireland. The Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster GAA teams are co ...

(4):

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Engineers from County Offaly Irish civil engineers Irish expatriates in Finland Irish expatriates in Germany Irish international rules football players Offaly inter-county Gaelic footballers Tubber Gaelic footballers UCD Gaelic footballers 20th-century Irish engineers 20th-century Irish sportsmen 21st-century Irish engineers 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Offaly-Gaelic-football-bio-stub