# Cian Ward

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**Cian Ward** is an Irish [Gaelic footballer](/source/Gaelic_football) who plays for [Meath Senior Football Championship](/source/Meath_Senior_Football_Championship) team [Wolfe Tones](/source/Wolfe_Tones_GAA) and, formerly, for the [Meath county team](/source/Meath_county_football_team). He is noted for his ability at taking frees.

## Playing career

### Club

[Wolfe Tones](/source/Wolfe_Tones_GAA) went from the [Meath Junior Football Championship](/source/Meath_Junior_Football_Championship) to [Meath Senior Football Championship](/source/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](/source/1996_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship)-winning captain [Tommy Dowd](/source/Tommy_Dowd_(Gaelic_footballer)) also joined the club around this time.[2]

### Inter-county

In the [2009 All-Ireland SFC](/source/2009_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship), he was the third highest top scorer after Donegal's [Michael Murphy](/source/Michael_Murphy_(Gaelic_footballer)) and Kerry's [Colm Cooper](/source/Colm_Cooper). Ward won his only Leinster SFC title with Meath, and scored four points, in the controversial [2010 decider](/source/2010_Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship_final).[3] In 2011, Ward scored 4 goals and 3 points against [Louth](/source/Louth_county_football_team) in front of a crowd 18,243 at Kingspan Breffni Park, to knock Louth out of the [Championship](/source/2011_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship). In 2013, Meath manager [Mick O'Dowd](/source/Mick_O'Dowd) dropped a number of players, including Ward, from the Meath panel.[4]

## Honours

**Inter-county**

- **[Leinster Senior Football Championship](/source/Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship)**: 1 - [2010](/source/2010_Leinster_Senior_Football_Championship)

**Club**

- **[Meath Senior Football Championship](/source/Meath_Senior_Football_Championship)**: 2 - [2006](/source/2006_Meath_Senior_Football_Championship), [2021](/source/2021_Meath_Senior_Football_Championship)

## References

1. Keane, Paul (20 October 2024). ["Meath SFC Final: Mathew Costello digs deep to drive Dunshaughlin to first title in 22 years"](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/). *The Irish Times* 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.

1. Boyle, Donnchadh & McKeon, Conor (9 November 2021). ["'You have to grasp the nettle when you are good enough' — Ward"](https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/you-have-to-grasp-the-nettle-when-you-are-good-enough-ward-41032721.html). *Irish Independent*

1. [\[1\]](http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=118125) - 'Gooch' Tops Scoring Charts - Hoganstand.com

1. [\[2\]](http://www.meathchronicle.ie/sport/roundup/articles/2013/04/30/4015566-players-dropped-from-meath-panel) Players dropped from Meath panel, Meath Chronicle

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