Kieran McKeever

Kieran McKeever, born on 12 March 1968, is a former dual player of Gaelic games who played Gaelic football and hurling for Derry during the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. He is chiefly known as a footballer and was part of Derry's 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winning side, also winning Ulster Senior Football Championships in 1993 and 1998. With the Derry footballers he usually played at corner-back and is regarded as one of the best defenders and tightest markers to have played the game. In 2000 he became the first Ulster player to be nominated for All Stars in both football and hurling in the same season; he won the football All Star but narrowly missed out on the hurling accolade, which would have made him only the second player after the Cork legend Ray Cummins to win both in the same year.