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| Native name | Déaglan de Brun (Irish) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1978-06-16) 16 June 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Declan Browne (born 16 June 1978) is an Irish Gaelic football coach and player who competed at inter-county level for Tipperary for 11 years. He currently plays his club football for Moyle Rovers.1 He represented Ireland against Australia in the 2003 and 2004 International Rules series.2
Playing career
Browne made his championship debut in 1996 in a Munster championship game against Kerry. Browne received Tipperary's first football All-Star in 1998 when he was picked at corner-forward after leading the Tipperary team to the Munster Football Final. Browne won his second All-Star award in 2003.3 He has won seven Tipperary Senior Football Championship medals with his club, Moyle Rovers. He won a Munster Minor Football Championship medal in 1995, a Munster and All Ireland Minor Hurling medal in 1996 and a Munster U-21 Hurling medal in 1999 as well as a McGrath Cup medal in 2003 and was awarded the Munster footballer of the year award for that same year. He also won 2 Fitzgibbon Cup medals. Browne captained Tipperary to win the 2005 Tommy Murphy Cup.4 In 2007, he announced his retirement from the inter-county scene, following Tipperary's defeat by Clare in the Tommy Murphy Cup.5
Management
Browne took over as the manager of the Tipperary Under-21 Football team in September 2016.6 His first game in charge was against Limerick on 8 March 2017 in the Munster Under-21 Football Championship which Tipperary lost 0–14 to 0–16.789
In January 2021, Browne joined the Tipperary senior football management team as the forwards coach.1011
Career statistics
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
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| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | ||
| Tipperary | 1996 | Division 4 | 1 | 0-00 | - | 1 | 0-00 | |||
| 1997 | Group D | 3 (?) | 1-10 | - | 3 | 1-10 | ||||
| 1998 | Division 2 Group B | 4 | 2-29 | - | 4 | 2-29 | ||||
| 1999 | 1 | 0-04 | - | 1 | 0-04 | |||||
| 2000 | Not played | 1 | 0-08 | - | 1 | 0-08 | ||||
| 2001 | - | |||||||||
| 2002 | Division 2 Group B | 4 | 2-20 | 1 | 0-07 | 5 | 2-27 | |||
| 2003 | 2 | 1-16 | 2 | 1-18 | 4 | 2-34 | ||||
| 2004 | 6 | 2-48 | 1 | 1-03 | - | 7 | 3-51 | |||
| 2005 | 4 | 0-07 | 1 | 0-09 | 1 | 1-02 | 6 | 1-18 | ||
| 2006 | 7 | 2-31 | 1 | 0-05 | 1 | 0-04 | 9 | 2-40 | ||
| 2007 | 1 | 0-05 | - | 1 | 0-05 | |||||
| Total | 20 | 7-109 | 5 | 2-31 | 25 | 9-141 | ||||
Honours
- Moyle Rovers
- 7 Tipperary Senior Football Championship 199,5 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2009
- 2 Tipperary Junior Hurling Championship 1998, 2007
- Tipperary
- 1 Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship
- 1 Munster Minor Hurling Championship: 1996
- 1 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship: 1996
- 1 Munster Minor Football Championship: 1995
- 1 McGrath Cup: 2003
- 1 Munster Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2000
- 1 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship: 2000
- 1 Tommy Murphy Cup: 2005
- 1 Munster Under-21 Hurling Championship: 1999
- Waterford Institute of Technology
- 2 Fitzgibbon Cup: 1999 2000
- Munster
- 1 Railway Cup: 1999
- Individual
- 2 All Stars Awards 1998 2003
References
References
- "Browne adds gloss finish as Rovers pushed all the way by Aherlow". Irish Independent. 26 October 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- "O'Keeffe fuming over late, late tackle". Hoganstand.com. 22 October 2003. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- "Browne is Tipperary's lone star". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- "McCarthy hails 'super' Browne". Hoganstand.com. 15 September 2005. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- "Browne lost hunger for game". Hoganstand.com. 10 July 2007. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
- "Tipperary hero Declan Browne takes U21 county reins". Irish Examiner. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "Declan Browne: 'Who are we to think that we are better than Limerick?'". Tipperary Star. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- "From winning 2 All-Stars with the Tipperary senior footballers to the new U21 manager". The 42. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
- "Limerick stun Declan Browne's Tipperary with dramatic extra-time victory". The 42. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- "Declan Browne joins Tipp management team as forwards coach". RTE Sport. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- "'He has been a breath of fresh air, with little pearls of wisdom' - Tipperary legend turns coach". The 42. 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.