Cian Ward

{{Short description|Meath Gaelic footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox Gaelic games player

| code= Football

| sport =

| image = Cian Ward Meath.JPG

| name = Cian Ward

| irish = Cian Mac an Bhaird

| feet = 6

| inches = 1

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| county = Meath

| province = Leinster

| club = Wolfe Tones

| cposition = Full-forward

| clubs = Wolfe Tones

| clyears = 2000s–

| clapps(points) =

| clcounty = 2

| clprovince= 1

| clallireland = 0

| counties = Meath

| icposition = Full-forward

| icyears = 2006–2013

| icapps(points) =

| icprovince = 1

| icallireland = 0

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| birth_date={{Birth based on age as of date|38|2024|10|20}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2024/10/20/meath-sfc-final-mathew-costello-digs-deep-to-drive-dunshaughlin-to-first-title-in-22-years/|title=Meath SFC Final: Mathew Costello digs deep to drive Dunshaughlin to first title in 22 years|work=The Irish Times|first=Paul|last=Keane|date=20 October 2024|quote=The Meath vice-captain read it that way too and tried to dink a short one to Niall Byrne but was errant and sent it straight to Wolfe Tones' evergreen substitute Cian Ward who, at 38, showed he's lost none of his predatory instincts.}}

| birth_place=County Meath, Ireland

}}

Cian Ward is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Meath Senior Football Championship team Wolfe Tones and, formerly, for the Meath county team. He is noted for his ability at taking frees.

Playing career

=Club=

Wolfe Tones went from the Meath Junior Football Championship to Meath Senior Football Championship winners in the space of four seasons in the early 21st-century, featuring Ward, whose emergence as one of Meath's "most exciting talents" coincided with this run, while 1996 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship-winning captain Tommy Dowd also joined the club around this time.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/you-have-to-grasp-the-nettle-when-you-are-good-enough-ward-41032721.html|title='You have to grasp the nettle when you are good enough' — Ward|work=Irish Independent|first1=Donnchadh|last1=Boyle|first2=Conor|last2=McKeon|date=9 November 2021}}

=Inter-county=

In the 2009 All-Ireland SFC, he was the third highest top scorer after Donegal's Michael Murphy and Kerry's Colm Cooper. Ward won his only Leinster SFC title with Meath, and scored four points, in the controversial 2010 decider. [http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=118125] - 'Gooch' Tops Scoring Charts - Hoganstand.com In 2011, Ward scored 4 goals and 3 points against Louth in front of a crowd 18,243 at Kingspan Breffni Park, to knock Louth out of the Championship. In 2013, Meath manager Mick O'Dowd dropped a number of players, including Ward, from the Meath panel.[http://www.meathchronicle.ie/sport/roundup/articles/2013/04/30/4015566-players-dropped-from-meath-panel] Players dropped from Meath panel, Meath Chronicle

Honours

References