Ronan Carolan is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Cavan county team and was best known as a prolific freetaker. He helped Cavan reach the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final in 1988, where they lost to Offaly. In 1989 Cavan won the Division 2 title of the National Football League and went on to reach the league semi-final, losing narrowly to Dublin at Croke Park, and that year Carolan also won a Dr McKenna Cup medal when Cavan beat Derry in the final. He was in the Cavan squad beaten in the 1996 Ulster final, and in 1997 he scored ten points to help Cavan win their only Ulster Senior Football Championship title in 28 years, again against Derry, in Clones. His scoring record is substantial: he is tenth on the all-time list of Ulster marksmen with 2-138, and he is Cavan's top scorer in National Football League history, finishing his career with 19-387 in that competition.
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Ronan Carolan is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the Cavan county team.
Playing career
He was a member of the Cavan squad that lost in the Ulster Final in 1996.
Playing career, 1989 and 1997: league Division 2, McKenna Cup, Ulster title
In the same year he won a Dr McKenna Cup medal when Cavan defeated Derry in the Final.
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