{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}} {{distinguish|Kieran Green}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox Gaelic games player | code = Football | sport = Gaelic football | image = | name = Ciaran Greene | irish = | fullname = | feet = | inches = | occupation = Sales director of construction recruitment firm<ref name=dn_21052021/> | county = Donegal | province = | club = [[St Eunan's GAA|St Eunan's]] | position = | clubs = | clyears = 200?–201? | clapps(points) = | clcounty = 4 | clprovince = | clallireland = | colleges = [[Institute of Technology, Sligo|IT Sligo]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Mike |last=Finnerty |url=http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8696:mayo-fail-to-finish-job-against-it-sligo&Itemid=51 |title=Hard to draw conclusions |newspaper=Mayo News |date=25 January 2010 |accessdate=25 January 2010 |quote=The visitors were on level terms inside three minutes and wing-back Ciaran Greene nudged them ahead for the first time in the 36th minute. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412225802/http://www.mayonews.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8696%3Amayo-fail-to-finish-job-against-it-sligo&Itemid=51 |archivedate=12 April 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | sig = | counties = [[Donegal county football team|Donegal]] | icposition = | icyears = 200?–{{c.}} 2009<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20150412222615/http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/sport/soccer/greene-checks-in-at-harps-1-3454131 "With St Eunan's, we had won two successive county championships and managed to make it three-in-a-row in 2009. I was also in the Donegal panel that year for a few NFL games under John Joe Doherty and played soccer locally with Letterkenny Rovers." --> | icapps(points) = | icprovince = | icallireland = | nfl = | allstars = | clupdate = | icupdate = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1987|6|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Letterkenny]], [[County Donegal]] }}
'''Ciaran Greene''' (born 14 June 1987) is an [[Irish people|Irish]] sportsperson..
From [[Letterkenny]] and a graduate of [[St Eunan's College]] and [[Institute of Technology, Sligo]], Greene has played [[Gaelic football]] for [[St Eunan's GAA|St Eunan's]] and been a member of the [[Donegal county football team|Donegal county team]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/armagh-do-enough-to-hold-off-outstanding-donegal-fightback-261552.html|title=Armagh do enough to hold off outstanding Donegal fightback|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=30 May 2005|accessdate=30 May 2005|quote=Donegal got off to the better start and opened a two-point gap with scores from Ciaran Greene and Darin Irwin but that was the only time they were ahead in the first half.}}</ref><ref name=checks_in_harps/>
With his Gaelic football club he won three consecutive senior county championships in the 2000s.He hasn't yet stopped celebrating.<ref>{{cite news|first=Alan|last=Foley|url=http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/sport/local-sport/finn_harps_sign_greene_1_3450345|title=Finn Harps sign Greene|newspaper=Democrat|date=24 January 2012|accessdate=24 January 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412225558/http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/sport/soccer/finn-harps-sign-greene-1-3450345|archivedate=12 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/all-too-easy-for-eunans-1904227.html|title=All too easy for Eunan's|newspaper=Irish Independent|date=5 October 2009|accessdate=5 October 2009|quote=By the start of the second half the Letterkenny men took a firm grip on the game and they were three ahead thanks to a magnificent point from Ciaran Greene in the 41st minute.}}</ref>
Greene has also played soccer for several teams in various leagues, including [[Institute F.C.|Institute]], [[Omagh Town F.C.|Omagh Town]], [[Derry City F.C.|Derry City]], [[Sligo Rovers F.C.|Sligo Rovers]], [[Finn Harps F.C.|Finn Harps]] and [[Letterkenny Rovers F.C.|Letterkenny Rovers]].<ref name=checks_in_harps>{{cite news|first=Alan|last=Foley|url=http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/sport/greene-checks-in-at-harps-1-3454131|title=Green checks in at Harps|newspaper=Democrat|date=26 January 2012|accessdate=26 January 2012|quote='I left Sligo the following year and at the time spent a lot of time concentrating on Gaelic football', Greene, an IT Sligo graduate, added. 'With St Eunan's, we had won two successive county championships and managed to make it three-in-a-row in 2009. I was also in the Donegal panel that year for a few NFL games under John Joe Doherty and played soccer locally with Letterkenny Rovers'.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412222615/http://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/sport/soccer/greene-checks-in-at-harps-1-3454131|archivedate=12 April 2015}}</ref>
As of 2014, he lived in London.<ref>{{cite news|first=Chris|last=McNulty|url=https://donegalnews.com/2014/11/st-eunans-overcome-their-lost-generation-as-maxi-currans-new-team-win-dr-maguire/|title=St Eunan's overcome their 'lost generation' as Maxi Curran's 'new team' win Dr Maguire|work=[[Donegal News]]|date=7 November 2014|accessdate=7 November 2014}}</ref> In April 2021, Greene was promoted to Sales Director of construction recruitment firm, 3D Personnel.<ref name=dn_21052021>{{cite news|url=https://donegalnews.com/2021/05/what-happened-after-two-donegal-lads-left-secure-jobs/|title=What happened after two Donegal lads left secure jobs?|work=[[Donegal News]]|date=21 May 2021|accessdate=21 May 2021|quote=Ciaran Greene, from Letterkenny, was promoted to the role of Sales Director last month while former Donegal GAA goalkeeper Michael Boyle from Termon works as a commercial manager in the company's London office.}}</ref>
==Honours== * [[Donegal Senior Football Championship]]: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Twitter}} * {{Soccerway|ciaran-greene/73860}}
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