Luke Keaney

{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}

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| sport = Gaelic football

| image = Luke Keaney cropped.jpg

| caption = Luke in action against Antrim in the 2014 Ulster Senior Football Championship

| name = Luke Keaney

| irish = Lúcas Ó Cianaigh{{cite news|url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2014/09/20/countdown-to-croker-donegal-name-team-for-all-ireland-final/|title=Countdown to Croker: Donegal name 'team' for All-Ireland final|date=20 September 2014|accessdate=20 September 2014}}

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| province = Ulster

| club = The Four Masters

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2013–2014

| colleges = UCD
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Luke Keaney (born 1992) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Four Masters and was involved with the Donegal county team for ten years. He is from Donegal Town.

Keaney played in the 2013 Dr McKenna Cup.{{cite news|first=Chris|last=McNulty|url=http://donegalnews.com/2013/01/experimental-donegal-for-mckenna-cup/|title=Experimental Donegal for McKenna Cup|newspaper=Donegal News|date=January 2013|accessdate=11 April 2013}}{{cite news|url=http://www.donegalnow.com/sp/article_manager/detail/gaa_live_donegal_v_st_marys|title=GAA FT: Donegal 1–14 v St Mary's 2–10|work=Donegal Now|date=16 January 2013|accessdate=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107042753/http://www.donegalnow.com/sp/article_manager/detail/gaa_live_donegal_v_st_marys|archive-date=7 November 2014|url-status=dead}} He made his league debut against Dublin in Ballybofey in the final game of the 2013 National Football League.{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2013/0407/380158-donegal-dublin/|title=Donegal 1–10 Dublin 0–13|publisher=RTÉ Sport|date=7 April 2013|accessdate=11 April 2013}}{{cite news|first=Colm|last=Keys|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/donegal-the-only-team-to-embrace-the-drop-29182748.html|title=Donegal — the only team to embrace the drop|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=9 April 2013|accessdate=11 April 2013}} He studied at and played for UCD.{{cite news|url=http://www.ucd.ie/sport/newsfixtures/nf/newsfeed/name,70939,en.html|title=President of the University, Dr. Hugh Brady announced the names of the 28 first year sports scholarship recipients for the 2010/2011 academic year}}{{cite news|url=http://www.ucd.ie/sport/newsfixtures/nf/news/name,87023,en.html|title=UCD against St Patrick's Palmerstown in the Evening Herald Senior Football Championship 1st Round tie at the Iveagh Grounds|access-date=2013-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151203132300/http://www.ucd.ie/sport/newsfixtures/nf/news/name,87023,en.html|archive-date=2015-12-03|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://www.sportsfile.com/id/709315/|title=Louth v UCD — Bórd na Móna O'Byrne Cup Group A|date=6 January 2013|accessdate=11 April 2013}}

He also played in the under-21 team that lost to Cavan in the 2013 Ulster final.{{cite news|url=http://donegalnow.com/sp/article_manager/detail/ulster_u21_final_live_donegal_v_cavan|title=Ulster U21 Final Live: Donegal 1–06 v Cavan 0–13|work=Donegal Now|date=10 April 2013|accessdate=10 April 2013|quote=Ciaran Cannon has been brought on as a blood sub for Luke Keaney… Luke Keaney has come back on for Donegal.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220024738/http://donegalnow.com/sp/article_manager/detail/ulster_u21_final_live_donegal_v_cavan|archive-date=20 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

He was part of the team that won the 2014 Ulster Senior Football Championship and then reached the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, but was an unused substitute in that game.

He was still playing for Four Masters in 2016, a year in which he helped his club to a 2–17 to 0–4 win with a goal and a point which he scored from a distance of 50 metres.{{cite news|first=Chris|last=McNulty|url=https://www.donegalsporthub.com/poll-anthony-conaghan-cars-player-week/|title=Who was your Anthony Conaghan Cars Player of the Week?|date=21 June 2016|accessdate=21 June 2016}}

In 2017, Keaney had multiple surgeries for injuries which brought his playing career to an end.{{cite news|title=Keaney takes aim at county board|work=Donegal News|date=12 December 2019|page=79|quote=Ex-Donegal star Luke Keaney has revealed he was shunned by his own county board when it came to medical expenses for a spate of complicated hip surgeries. Speaking on Wednesday morning's Off the Ball AM, Keaney (27) explained that when he underwent a series of operations for what would prove to be career-ending injuries in 2017, he received no support whatsoever from his own county board… In a candid discussion, the Donegal Town native revealed he eventually sought the help of a counsellor… 'I played 10-years, from 15 to 25, for Donegal and you still love it, but it is a bit sour'…}}