Francis Devaney (born 23 January 1984) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays

hurling Hurling ( ga, iománaíocht, ') is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic Irish origin, played by men. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goals, the number of pla ...

with his local club Toomevara and has also featured on the

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senior inter-county team.

Early & private life

Francis Devaney was born in the parish of Toomevara,

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in 1984.

Playing career

Club

Devaney plays his club

with Toomevara. He has had some success at underage level and later joined the senior team. Devaney won his first senior

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title in 2003. He won another county medal in 2004 before winning his first Munster club hurling title. Devaney won a third county title in 2006, before winning his second Munster club title. He was also part of the Toomevara team which won another county title in 2008.

Inter-county

Devaney joined the

minor hurling team in the early 2000s. He won back-to-back Munster minor medals in 2001 and 2002, before winning back-to-back Munster under-21 medals in 2003 and 2004. Devaney made his competitive debut with the Tipperary senior hurling team in 2005 when he was introduced as a second-half substitute in a

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game against

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. Later that year he made his

Munster Championship The Munster GAA Hurling Senior Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship, is an annual inter-county hurling competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It is the highest inter-county hurlin ...

debut in a game against

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