Keadue Rovers Football Club is a football club based in

Keadue Keadue, officially Keadew (), is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is on the R284 and R285 regional roads close to the borders of County Leitrim and County Sligo. Keadue is the burial place of the great Irish harper, Turlough O'Ca ...

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, currently playing in the Premier Division in the Donegal Junior League. Founded in 1896, Keadue played their home games at Central Park. Nicknamed "The Gulls", Keadue are the most successful club in the history of the Donegal Junior League. The club's most famous past player is

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, who signed for

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at the age of 17 from Keadue Rovers. Other famous sons to don the clubs famous candy stripes were Dennis Bonner

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, Tony Boyle, All Ireland winner with Donegal in 1992, Adrian Hanlon, All Ireland winner in 2012,

Adrian Sweeney Adrian Sweeney is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Dungloe and the Donegal county team. Considered one of the finest forwards of his generation, he often played alongside Brendan Devenney for Donegal. Sweeney played for Doneg ...

, Martin Ferry (formerly of

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and

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),Brian Proctor (formerly of Arranmore Utd) ,Lee Boyle (formerly of

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) and Mark Forker (formerly of Hearts and Finn Harps),

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, who captained

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to the 2018 Scottish Cup Final, and played for

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in the 2013 English League Cup Final. Other names synonymous with the club are its most successful manager, Manus McCole, and groundskeeper, Anthony "Dutch" Doherty. The club celebrated its centenary in 1996 with

playing a game at Central Park. In 2021, Keadue played the first game on their new pitch adjacent to the old pitch in Central Park. In August 2023, the club started work on an extension to the clubhouse to facilitate the rapidly growing number of players at the club.

External links

Official website
1896 establishments in Ireland Association football clubs in County Donegal The Rosses Ulster Senior League (association football) teams