Ciarán Kilkenny

Ciarán Kilkenny (born 7 July 1993) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Dublin county team and, as a dual player, for his club Castleknock. He attended Scoil Oilibhéir in Clonsilla, represented Dublin at underage level in both football and hurling, won the Leinster Minor Football Championship and the Leinster Minor Hurling Championship in 2011, and won the 2012 Leinster and All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championships. He joined the Australian rules club Hawthorn as a rookie in 2011 but returned to Ireland after about four months. He made his senior debut for Dublin in the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, won the 2013 National Football League and All-Ireland titles, and went on to win eight All-Ireland Senior Football Championships in all. He tore an anterior cruciate ligament in 2014, played twice for Ireland in the 2013 International Rules Series, and in 2022 won his sixth All Star, level with Stephen Cluxton as the Dublin player with the most.