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Irish hurler

Neil McManus Personal information Native name Niall Mac Mánais (Irish) Born 02/06/1988 Cushendall, County Antrim, Northern Ireland Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) Sport Sport Hurling Position Centre-forward Club Years Club 2005-present Ruairí Óg Club titles Antrim titles 3 Ulster titles 2 Inter-county* Years County Apps (scores) 2007-present Antrim 30 (7-112) Inter-county titles Ulster titles 5 All-Irelands 0 NHL 0 All Stars 0 *Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 13:20, 11 June 2022.

**Neil McManus** (born 1988) is an [Irish](/source/Northern_Ireland) [hurler](/source/Hurling) who plays as a centre-forward for the [Antrim](/source/Antrim_GAA) senior team.[1]

Born in [Cushendall](/source/Cushendall), [County Antrim](/source/County_Antrim), McManus first played competitive hurling during his school days at [St MacNissi's College](/source/St_MacNissi's_College). He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Antrim minor team, before later lining out with the under-21 side. He made his senior debut in the [2007 championship](/source/2007_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship). McManus has been a key member of the team since then, and has won five [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Senior_Hurling_Championship) medals and one [Walsh Cup](/source/Walsh_Cup_(hurling)) medal.

McManus has represented the [Ulster](/source/Ulster_GAA) inter-provincial team on a number of occasions. At club level he is a two-time [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Senior_Club_Hurling_Championship) medallist with [Ruairí Óg](/source/Ruair%C3%AD_%C3%93g_GAC). He has also won three [championship](/source/Antrim_Senior_Hurling_Championship) medals.

## Playing career

### Club

McManus plays his club hurling with the [Cushendall Ruairí Óg](/source/Ruair%C3%AD_%C3%93g_GAC) club and has enjoyed much success. After a promising under-age career he made his senior debut as a seventeen-year-old in 2005. That year he won his first [senior county championship](/source/Antrim_Senior_Hurling_Championship).

Cushendall made it two-in-a-row in 2006 with McManus later collecting an [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Senior_Club_Hurling_Championship) club title.[2]

After surrendering their county and provincial titles in 2007, Cushendall returned in 2008 with McMaus winning a third county title following another win over [Loughgiel Shamrocks](/source/Loughgiel_Shamrocks).[3] He later secured a second Ulster club title following a win over [Ballygalget](/source/Ballygalget_GAA).[4]

### Inter-county

McManus first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the [Antrim](/source/Antrim_GAA) minor hurling team. With the 'young saffrons' he won three [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Minor_Hurling_Championship) titles in succession in 2004, 2005 and as captain in 2006. He subsequently joined the Antrim under-21 hurling team, winning his first [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Under-21_Hurling_Championship) title while still a minor in 2006. He won a second Ulster under-21 title in 2009.

McManus made his senior debut in 2007 in a [National Hurling League](/source/National_Hurling_League) game against [Dublin](/source/Dublin_GAA).[5] Later that year he made his championship debut in the provincial decider. A 2–24 to 0-4 trouncing of [Down](/source/Down_GAA) gave McManus his first [Ulster](/source/Ulster_Senior_Hurling_Championship) title.[6]

In 2008 McManus missed the later stages of the National League and the entire championship campaign due to injury.[7] He returned in 2009 and has become Antrim's top score-getters.

### Inter-provincial

McManus has also lined out with [Ulster](/source/Ulster_GAA) in the inter-provincial series of games.

## Career statistics

### Club

- *As of match played 10 February 2018.*

Team Year Ulster All-Ireland Total Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Ruairí Óg, Cushendall 2005-06 1 0-00 0 0-00 1 0-00 2006-07 2 0-00 1 0-00 3 0-00 2008-09 2 0-01 1 0-04 3 0-05 2014-15 3 1-19 0 0-00 3 1-19 2015-16 2 0-15 2 2-14 4 2-29 Total 10 1-35 4 2-18 14 3-53

### Inter-county

- *As of 26 June 2021*

Team Year National League Ring Cup McDonagh Cup Ulster Leinster All-Ireland Total Division Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Apps Score Antrim 2007 Division 1 3 1-04 — — 1 0-07 — 3 1-03 7 2-14 2008 2 0-04 — — 0 0-00 — 0 0-00 2 0-04 2009 Division 2 5 4-03 — — 1 0-03 1 0-01 1 1-00 8 5-07 2010 6 6-19 — — 1 0-04 1 1-04 3 0-22 11 7-49 2011 7 4-46 — — 0 0-00 2 0-15 3 0-27 12 4-88 2012 Division 1B 5 0-12 — — 1 0-01 1 0-03 1 1-01 8 1-17 2013 5 1-41 — — 1 1-05 2 2-09 1 0-06 9 4-61 2014 5 0-07 — — 0 0-00 5 0-07 1 0-01 11 0-15 2015 7 0-07 — — 0 0-00 2 1-02 1 0-01 10 1-10 2016 Division 2A — — — — — — — 2017 3 1-05 3 2-19 — 1 1-06 — — 7 4-30 2018 Division 1B 6 0-62 — 6 3-67 — — — 12 3-129 2019 Division 2A 2 0-02 — 4 1-30 — — — 6 1-32 2020 6 4-33 — 1 0-04 — — — 7 4-37 2021 Division 1B 4 2-06 — — — 1 0-06 — 5 2-12 Total 66 23-251 3 2-19 11 4-101 6 2-26 15 4-47 14 3-61 115 38-505

## Honours

### Team

**Ruairí Óg**

- [Ulster Senior Club Hurling Championship](/source/Ulster_Senior_Club_Hurling_Championship) (5): 2006, 2008, 2015, 2018, 2023

- [Antrim Senior Hurling Championship](/source/Antrim_Senior_Hurling_Championship) (7): 2005, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2023

**Antrim**

- [National League Division 2A](/source/National_Hurling_League) (1): [2020](/source/2020_National_Hurling_League#Division_2A_Final)

- [Joe McDonagh Cup](/source/Joe_McDonagh_Cup) (1): [2020](/source/2020_Joe_McDonagh_Cup)

- [Ulster Senior Hurling Championship](/source/Ulster_Senior_Hurling_Championship) (5): 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013

- [Walsh Cup](/source/Walsh_Cup_(hurling)) (1): 2008

- [Ulster Under-21 Hurling Championship](/source/Ulster_Under-21_Hurling_Championship) (2): 2006, 2009

- [Ulster Minor Hurling Championship](/source/Ulster_Minor_Hurling_Championship) (2): 2005, 2006

### Individual

**Honours**

- Ulster Colleges Hurling All-Stars (2): 2004, 2006

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Player profile: Neil McManus"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110716132656/http://antrim.gaa.ie/teams/profiles/?id=217). Antrim GAA website. Archived from [the original](http://antrim.gaa.ie/teams/profiles/?id=217) on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Cushendall crush Lynch's to take Ulster club crown"](http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/cushendall-crush-lynchs-to-take-ulster-club-crown-68407.html). [Irish Independent](/source/Irish_Independent). 13 November 2006. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Cushendall ease past Loughgiel"](http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/gaa/cushendall-ease-past-loughgiel-13987213.html). [Belfast Telegraph](/source/Belfast_Telegraph). 29 September 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Ruairi Ogs take hurling club title"](http://ulster.gaa.ie/2008/10/20/ruairi-ogs-take-hurling-club-title/). [Ulster GAA](/source/Ulster_GAA). 20 October 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Antrim draft in McManus"](http://www.hoganstand.com/Antrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=73617). Hogan Stand. 2 March 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Gaelic Games Clockwatch"](https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/6716747.stm). [BBC Sport](/source/BBC_Sport). 3 June 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Double blow for Antrim"](http://www.hoganstand.com/Antrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=94129). Hogan Stand. 3 May 2008. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

Neil McManus navigation boxes Sporting positions Preceded by Eoin Price Ireland Composite Rules Shinty-Hurling Captain 2013 Incumbent v t e Ruairí Óg, Cushendall – 2016 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship finalists 1 E. Gillan 2 R. McCambridge 3 M. Burke 4 A. Graffin 5 D. Kearney 6 E. Campbell 7 S. Delargy 8 S. McNaughton 9 A. Delargy 10 C. Carson 11 N. McManus 12 S. McAfee 13 P. McGill 14 D. McNaughton 15 C. McNaughton Manager J. McKillop v t e Antrim - 2020 Joe McDonagh Cup champions (1st title) 1 R. Elliott 2 P. Duffin 3 M. Donnelly 4 S. Rooney 5 G. Walsh 6 P. Burke 7 J. Maskey 8 E. Campbell 9 K. Molloy 10 N. McKenna 11 J. McNaughton 12 M. Bradley 13 D. McCloskey 14 C. McCann (c) 15 C. Clarke Subs used 26 C. Cunning for D. McCloskey 22 N. McManus for K. Molloy 24 D. Nugent for S. Rooney 23 C. Johnston for M. Bradley 20 A. O'Brien for N. McKenna Manager D. Gleeson Selectors J. Campbell G. O'Kane J. Close v t e Ireland national hurling team | 2012 Shinty–Hurling International Series 1 B. Rochford 2 J. Clarke 3 C. Clifford 4 S. Clynch 5 S. Dooley 6 C. Donnelly 7 S. Fennell 8 P. Horgan 9 N. McManus 10 B. McFall 11 T. Murnane 12 B. Murtagh 13 D. O'Connell 14 S. O'Neill 15 E. Price (c) 16 P. Reidy 17 D. Shaw 18 T. Walsh Joint managers J. Meyler M. Walsh v t e Ireland national hurling team | 2013 Shinty–Hurling International Series 1 B. Rochford 2 D. Cullen 3 P. Divilly 4 D. English 5 A. Graffin 6 C. Healy 7 R. Hogan 8 G. Johnson 9 J. Kavanagh 10 B. Maher 11 P. Maher 12 K. McKiernan 13 N. McManus (c) 14 D. McNicholas 15 D. O'Connell 16 E. Reilly 17 S. O'Neill 18 E. Price 19 C. Woods Joint managers J. Meyler M. Walsh v t e 2018 Joe McDonagh Cup Champion 15 E. Byrne B. Treacy J. Doyle C. Nolan D. English P. Doyle D. McNicholas A. Devine P. Greville P. Carroll E. Price S. Weir R. King N. McManus J. Keena

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