{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}} {{Use Irish English|date=June 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox GAA player | code = Football | 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<ref>{{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}}</ref> | fullname = | feet = | inches = | occupation = | county = Donegal | province = Ulster | club = The Four Masters | position = | clubs = | clyears = 2008–2017 | clapps(points) = | clcounty = | clprovince = | clallireland = | colyears = 2010–2013<br>2013–2014 | colleges = UCD<br>Ulster University | sig = | counties = Donegal | icposition = | icyears = 2011–2014 | icapps(points) = | icprovince = 1 | icallireland = | nfl = | allstars = 2014 College All Star | clupdate = | icupdate = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1992|03|18|df=yes}} | birth_place = }} '''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.<ref name=dn_12122019/> He is from Donegal Town.<ref name=dn_12122019/>
Keaney played in the 2013 Dr McKenna Cup.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> He made his league debut against Dublin in Ballybofey in the final game of the 2013 National Football League.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> He studied at and played for UCD.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
He also played in the under-21 team that lost to Cavan in the 2013 Ulster final.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In 2017, Keaney had multiple surgeries for injuries which brought his playing career to an end.<ref name=dn_12122019>{{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'…}}</ref>
==Honours== ;Donegal * Ulster Senior Football Championship: 2014
==References== {{Reflist}}
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{{Donegal Football Team 2014}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Keaney, Luke}} Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of University College Dublin Category:Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Four Masters Gaelic footballers Category:UCD Gaelic footballers Category:People from Donegal (town)