Kieran Duff (born 14 February 1961) is an Irish former

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er. His

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and

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career at senior level playing for the Dublin county team spanned thirteen seasons from 1979 to 1992. Born in

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, Duff first played competitive Gaelic football during his schooling. He later joined the

Fingallians Fingallians is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1884, Fingallians are one of the oldest clubs in Dublin and they are based at Lawless Memorial Park. History The club caters for Gaelic football, hur ...

club and won a county junior championship medal in 1993. Duff made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was picked on the Dublin minor team. He won a

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medal in this grade in 1979. Duff later joined the Dublin under-21 team, winning a

medal in 1980. By this stage he had joined the Dublin senior team, making his debut during the 1979-80 league. Over the course of the next thirteen seasons Duff won one

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medal in 1983. He also won four

medals, two

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medals and two

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. He retired from inter-county football during the 1991-92 league. Duff also played

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for Swords Celtic and Shelbourne, making his

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debut as a substitute on 8 December 1985. In retirement from playing Duff became involved in team management and coaching. He was a selector with the Dublin senior team under

Paul Caffrey Paul Caffrey is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Na Fianna club and for the Dublin county team. He is also a former manager of his county team and is a Dublin-based Garda. Background Caffrey grew up on Dorset Street on the Nort ...

Honours

Team

; Fingallians *

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(1): 1993 ; Dublin *

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(1):

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

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 ...

(4):

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

(2): 1986-87, 1990-91

Individual

; Awards * All-Stars Awards (2): 1987, 1988

References

1961 births Living people All Stars Awards winners (football) Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers Fingallians Gaelic footballers Gaelic footballers who switched code Gaelic games players from Fingal League of Ireland players Shelbourne F.C. players Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football) Men's association football players not categorized by position Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Association footballers from County Dublin 20th-century Irish sportsmen {{Dublin-Gaelic-football-bio-stub