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Early life

Breheny is from the north

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village of

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. He played for, and later served as secretary of, his local Kilkerrin-Clonberne GAA club before he moved to Dublin in 1979. Breheny spent four years working for '' The Tuam Herald'' before embarking on a 41-year national media career. At ''The Tuam Herald'' Breheny was a contemporary of Jim Carney and Michael Lyster.

National career

Breheny began working for ''

'' in 1979. He had retired as the ''

s Gaelic games correspondent by the time of the

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; however, he continued to write for the paper. Breheny has covered All-Ireland Finals in both football and

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for many decades, attending his first final in

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(football) and his 100th in

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(football; drawn game). In 2020, he gave his favourite final in each code as 1998 (football) and 2009 (hurling). He is a regular member of the All Star selection committees, first doing so in 1983. Breheny helped write the autobiographies of footballers John O'Leary (published 1997) and Mick O'Dwyer (published 2000), and hurlers D. J. Carey (published 2013) and

Awards

Breheny won "Sports Story of the Year" at the 2017 NewsBrands Ireland Journalism awards. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in March 2020.

References

External links

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