Adrian Freeman

Adrian Freeman, who lived from 13 March 1986 to 29 May 2010, was an Irish sportsman from Tooreen, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, who played Gaelic football and hurling. He played hurling for Mayo and was a member of the county's 2009 hurling team, which took part in both the National Hurling League and the Christy Ring Cup, and he played for Connacht in the Interprovincial Championship. He played club football for Aghamore. His international career included one hurling and shinty under-21 international appearance in Inverness, Scotland, and he also played in England four times, toured North America and was a member of the losing Connacht side in the Interprovincial Championship final played in Abu Dhabi in March 2009. His death at twenty-four in a traffic collision in Australia in 2010 led to an outpouring of public grief in Irish GAA circles.