{{Short description|Fermanagh Gaelic footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox GAA player | name = Aidan Breen | image = | alt = | caption = | <!-- Personal information --> | irish = | sport = | clposition = | icposition = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | feet = | inches = | nickname = | occupation = Electrician<ref name=BelfastTelegraph/><ref name=TheIrishTimes/> | <!-- Club(s) --> | clyears = | clubs = Tempo Maguires | clapps(points) = | <!-- Club titles --> | code = Football | county = Fermanagh | clcounty = | province = | clprovince = | clallireland = | <!-- Colleges(s) --> | colyears = | colleges = | colapps(points) = | <!-- College titles --> | fitz = | sig = | <!-- Inter-county(ies) --> | icyears = | counties = Fermanagh | icapps(points) = | <!-- Inter-county titles --> | icprovince = | icconnacht = | iculster = | icleinster = | icmunster = | icallireland = | nfl = | nhl = | allstars = | <!-- Last updated --> | clupdate = | icupdate = }} '''Aidan Breen''' is a Gaelic footballer. He plays senior football for Tempo Maguires and the Fermanagh county team.
Breen is the son of Jamesie and Rita Breen.<ref name=TheIrishTimes/> He tested positive for COVID-19 on 3 October 2020 after attending a Fermanagh training session the previous evening.<ref name=BelfastTelegraph/> He volunteered for the test on a "precautionary" basis (not believing himself to be a close contact) because of an outbreak locally, including in a shop he had visited on 1 October, and among other members of the Fermanagh team.<ref name=BelfastTelegraph>{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/gaa-man-aidan-breen-reveals-effects-of-his-coronavirus-infection-39616694.html|title=GAA man Aidan Breen reveals effects of his coronavirus infection|work=Belfast Telegraph|date=12 October 2020|accessdate=12 October 2020}}</ref><ref name=TheIrishTimes>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/fermanagh-s-aidan-breen-on-physical-and-mental-strain-of-covid-19-1.4378645|title=Fermanagh's Aidan Breen on physical and mental strain of Covid-19|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=13 October 2020|accessdate=13 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-40063634.html|title=Aidan Breen: 'I had no energy, I had a sore head. I felt very breathless'|work=Irish Examiner|date=13 October 2020|accessdate=13 October 2020}}</ref> Breen became the first current inter-county player to discuss his experience of the virus in detail as Fermanagh unsuccessfully attempted to have their next National Football League game against Clare in Ennis postponed.<ref name=BelfastTelegraph/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/gaelic-games/54502706|title=GAA: 17 Fermanagh players out of league restart says manager Ryan McMenamin|publisher=BBC Sport|date=11 October 2020|accessdate=11 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2020/1014/1171603-fermanagh-fail-in-bid-to-postpone-league-match/|title=Covid-hit Fermanagh fail in bid to postpone league match|publisher=RTÉ Sport|first=Damian|last=Lawlor|date=14 October 2020|accessdate=14 October 2020}}</ref> He experienced "a couple of very tough days", with low energy, a headache and breathing problems, and when these subsided he still had difficulty running.<ref name=BelfastTelegraph/> Breen travelled to the game in his own car, as became the established practice to combat the virus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/youre-in-a-car-without-somebody-to-talk-to-inter-county-players-on-the-lonely-road-just-to-stay-safe-39671629.html|title='You're in a car without somebody to talk to' — Inter-county players on the lonely road just to stay safe|work=Irish Independent|first=Frank|last=Roche|date=27 October 2020|accessdate=27 October 2020|quote=Aidan Breen of Fermanagh arrives for the Allianz Football League Division 2 Round 6 match between Clare and Fermanagh at Cusack Park, Ennis as part of the new Covid-19 protocol. Photo: Sportsfile}}</ref>
As of the end of the 2024 season, he had made 120 appearances for Fermanagh.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://gaeliclife.com/counties/glist-fermanaghs-top-performers-since-2008/|title=GList: Fermanagh's top performers since 2008|work=Gaelic Life|date=25 October 2021}}</ref>
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