Alan Kane

Alan Kane (John A. D. Kane, 1945 to 16 March 2021) was an Irish Gaelic footballer born in Ballyshannon who played as goalkeeper for the St Joseph's and Aodh Ruadh clubs and for the Donegal county team in the early 1970s. With the Ballyshannon-Bundoran combination of St Joseph's he won seven County Senior Championship titles in nine seasons between 1968 and 1976, and he was in goal when St Joseph's became the first Donegal club to win the Ulster Club Championship. He made his championship debut for Donegal against Antrim in 1970, was between the posts when Donegal claimed their first Ulster Championship in 1972 and was a substitute when the title was won again in 1974. At his death he was vice-president of Aodh Ruadh, which credited him with resurrecting camogie at the club in the 1980s and inducted him into its Hall of Fame in 2012, and he was part of the management team that won the 1995 Donegal Senior Ladies' Football Championship. He died on 16 March 2021, aged 75.