Luke Keaney (born 1992) 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 Four Masters and was involved with the Donegal county team for ten years. He is from

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. Keaney played in the

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. He made his league debut against

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in the final game of the 2013 National Football League. He studied at and played for UCD. He also played in the under-21 team that lost to

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in the 2013 Ulster final. He was part of the team that won the

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and then reached the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, but was an unused substitute in that game. He was still playing for Four Masters in 2016, a year in which he helped his club to a 2–17 to 0–4 win with a goal and a point which he scored from a distance of 50 metres. In 2017, Keaney had multiple surgeries for injuries which brought his playing career to an end.

Honours

;Donegal *

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keaney, Luke 1992 births Living people Alumni of University College Dublin Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Four Masters Gaelic footballers UCD Gaelic footballers People from Donegal (town)