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Paul Hearty

{{Short description|Armagh Gaelic footballer}}

{{BLP sources|date=November 2007}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}

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

{{infobox Gaelic games player

| image =

| name = Paul Hearty

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1978|5|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Armagh, Northern Ireland

| height = {{convert|1.93|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| sport = Gaelic football

| code = Football

| county = Armagh

| province = Ulster

| club = Crossmaglen Rangers

| clyears = 1995–2018

| clposition = Goalkeeper

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| clcounty = 19

| clprovince = 11

| clallireland = 6

| counties = Armagh

| icyears = 2000–2012

| icposition = Goalkeeper

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| icprovince = 5

| icallireland = 1

| nfl = 2

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Paul Hearty is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as goalkeeper for the Armagh county team. He was named in goal for the 2006 Irish News Ulster Allstars team for his performances in Armagh's 2006 Uster championship win.

Club

Hearty was part of the Crossmaglen team that won 13 Armagh Senior Football Championships in a row between 1996 and 2008.{{cite news |first=Kenny |last=Archer |title=Thirteen on the trot for six of the best |work=The Irish News |page=42 |date=21 October 2008 |accessdate=22 October 2008 |url=http://www.irishnews.com/searchlog.asp?reason=denied_empty&script_name=/pageacc.asp&path_info=/pageacc.asp&tser1=ser&sid=600712 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170151/http://www.irishnews.com/searchlog.asp?reason=denied_empty&script_name=%2Fpageacc.asp&path_info=%2Fpageacc.asp&tser1=ser&sid=600712 |archivedate=3 March 2016 }} This equals the national record for consecutive county football championships set by Ballina Stephenites of Mayo between 1904 and 1916.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} The 2008 win was Crossmaglen's 37th in all, also drawing them level with Castleblayney Faughs's record of most county football championships ever.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} Hearty has also won the Ulster Senior Club Football Championship seven times and the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship four times with the club. Hearty, along with Oisín McConville, John McEntee, Tony McEntee, Francie Bellew and Cathal Short is one of six Crossmaglen players to have shared in all these successes since 1996.

Hearty retired from the Crossmaglen Rangers in 2017 at the age of 39 but came out of retirement in 2018 for one game at the age of 40 as an emergency goalkeeper a year later in a league match against Armagh harps.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} He also filled-in as substitute goalkeeper for Crossmaglen in the 2020 county final against Maghery at the age of 42 but did not play. Crossmaglen lost the match 0-17 to 4-09.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} This was the first time they had lost a county final in 38 years.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

County

Hearty also was substitute goalkeeper on the 2002 All-Ireland winning football team, and played on the losing side the following year against Tyrone.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} He has 6 ulster championship medals a national league and was nominated for an all-star in 2005.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Honours

References

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Category:1978 births

Category:Living people

Category:Armagh inter-county Gaelic footballers

Category:Crossmaglen Rangers Gaelic footballers

Category:Gaelic football goalkeepers

Category:Sportspeople from Armagh (city)

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