Darragh Egan (born 5 February 1986) is an Irish
hurling manager and former
player
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who managed the
Wexford senior hurling team from 2021 until 2023. He is a former player with club side
Kiladangan and the
Tipperary senior hurling team
The Tipperary county hurling team represents County Tipperary, Tipperary in hurling and is governed by Tipperary GAA, the County board (Gaelic games), county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual ...
.
Playing career
Egan first came to prominence at club and underage levels with the Kiladangan club. He had just progressed onto the top adult team when the club won the
All-Ireland Club Championship at intermediate level in 2005. He was sub-goalkeeper when Kiladangan beat
Loughmore-Castleiney to win their inaugural
County Senior Championship title in 2020. Egan first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the
Tipperary minor team that won the
Munster Minor Championship in 2003 before lining out in the
2006 All-Ireland under-21 final replay defeat by
Kilkenny
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. By this stage he was also a member of the
Tipperary senior hurling team
The Tipperary county hurling team represents County Tipperary, Tipperary in hurling and is governed by Tipperary GAA, the County board (Gaelic games), county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual ...
after making his debut during the
2005 league. Egan maintained an association with the team for a decade and was a non-playing substitute for their
2010 All-Ireland Championship success. His other honours include two
Munster Championship medals and a
National Hurling League
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title.
Management career
In October 2018, Egan was named by new Tipperary manager
Liam Sheedy
Liam Sheedy (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish hurling manager and former player who was the manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team on two occasions.
Born in Portroe, County Tipperary, Sheedy enjoyed All-Ireland success as a schoolboy h ...
as a coach of the Tipperary senior hurling team. His first season with the team ended with Tipperary beating Kilkenny in the
2019 All-Ireland final. After the management team stepped down after three seasons in charge, Egan was appointed manager of the
Wexford senior hurling team in September 2021.
In July 2023, Egan left his role as Wexford manager after two seasons in charge.
Personal life
Egan, his wife Sarah and mother Mary featured in an episode of
RTÉ
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’s ''
Room to Improve'' in 2016 following his inter-county retirement; by that stage, at the age of thirty, Egan was principal of Kiladangan national school.
Career statistics
Honours
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Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
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2020
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North Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
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: 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016
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All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
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2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
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2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
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Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship
The Tipperary Intermediate Hurling Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Tipperary County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1979 for the third-tier hurling teams in the county of Tipperary in Ireland.
Th ...
: 2004
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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
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2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
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Munster Senior Hurling Championship
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2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
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National Hurling League
The National Hurling League is an annual Inter county, inter-county hurling competition featuring teams from Ireland and England. Founded in 1925 by the Gaelic Athletic Association, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation within the l ...
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2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
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All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship
The Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship was an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) between 1961 and 2017. Teams consisted of senior, intermediate and junior club ...
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship
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2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
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Munster Minor Hurling Championship
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2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
Management
;Tipperary
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All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
References
External links
Tipperary Player Profiles
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1986 births
Living people
Heads of schools in Ireland
Hurling goalkeepers
Hurling managers
Kildangan hurlers (Tipperary)
Tipperary inter-county hurlers
University of Galway hurlers
21st-century Irish sportsmen