Kieran Donaghy
Kieran Donaghy (born 1 March 1983) is an Irish Gaelic football coach and former player who also played basketball. From Tralee, he played for the Austin Stacks club and for the Kerry senior football team from 2004 to 2018, mainly as a full forward. He won four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals, eight Munster titles and three National League titles with Kerry, and earned three All-Star awards. He announced his retirement from inter-county football on 11 September 2018.
Donaghy is also a longtime basketball player, having played for Tralee Tigers and later Tralee Warriors in the Irish Super League, winning several titles and earning MVP honors in major finals.
After his playing days, Donaghy moved into coaching and punditry. He worked as a performance coach for the Galway senior hurling team, served as a joint manager for IT Tralee in the Sigerson Cup, and joined Armagh county’s senior management in December 2020, remaining with them through their 2024 All-Ireland SFC success before leaving in July 2025. In 2019, he began appearing on Sky Sports’ GAA panel, and his story was featured in a TG4 Laochra Gael episode in 2020.
Personal life: his father is from County Tyrone. He married Hilary Stephenson in 2013, and they have two daughters, Lola Rose (born 2015) and Indie (born 2017).
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