Cianan Fahy

{{short description|Irish hurler}}

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{{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2022}}

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|birth_date = 1998

|birth_place = Ardrahan, County Galway, Ireland

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|province = Leinster

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Cianan Fahy (born 1998) is an Irish hurler who plays for Galway Senior Championship club Ardrahan and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team. He has lined out as a defender and as a forward.

Career

Fahy first played hurling as a schoolboy with the Gort Community School, with whom he lined out in the Connacht Colleges Championship.{{cite web|url=https://www.the42.ie/athenry-gort-connacht-2615092-Feb2016/|title=Galway All-Ireland winner Niland hits 0-12 as Athenry win Connacht senior hurling title|publisher=The 42|date=20 February 2016|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=|last=}} He simultaneously lined out with the Ardrahan club at juvenile and underage levels before eventually progressing onto the senior team. Fahy first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Galway minor hurling team that beat Tipperary in the 2015 All-Ireland minor hurling final.{{cite web|url= http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/jeffrey-lynskeys-young-galway-confound-critics-352431.html|title=Jeffrey Lynskey's young Galway confound critics|date=7 September 2015|publisher=Irish Examiner|accessdate=8 September 2015}} He later won a Leinster U21 Championship title.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/sean-bleahene-claims-leinster-title-as-galway-see-off-wexford-in-dramatic-extra-time-finish-37082167.html|title=Sean Bleahene claims Leinster title as Galway see off Wexford in dramatic extra time finish|publisher=Irish Independent|date=4 July 2018|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=John|last=Fallon}} Fahy was drafted onto the Galway senior hurling team in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.the42.ie/galway-wexford-teams-hurling-league-5700880-Mar2022/|title=Galway and Wexford name teams for Saturday's hurling league ties against Cork and Offaly|publisher=The 42|date=3 March 2022|accessdate=17 March 2022|first=|last=}}

Career statistics

{{updated|5 March 2022.}}

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rowspan="2"|Team

!rowspan="2"|Year

!colspan="3"|National League

!colspan="2"|Leinster

!colspan="2"|All-Ireland

!colspan="2"|Total

DivisionAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScoreAppsScore
rowspan="1"|Galway

|2022

|rowspan="1"|Division 1A

30-0200-0000-0030-02
colspan="3"|Career total

!3

0-0200-0000-0030-02

Honours

References

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{{Galway Hurling Team}}

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{{Galway Minor Hurling Team 2015}}

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Category:1998 births

Category:Living people

Category:Ardrahan hurlers

Category:Galway inter-county hurlers

Category:21st-century Irish sportsmen