Fiachra Breathnach is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 Gaelic football

Gaelic football

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er from Galway

Galway

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. Breathnach plays his club football with Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir

CLG Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir

CLG Naomh Anna, Leitir Moir is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Gaeltacht area of Leitir Móir, County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA...

 from the Conamara Gaeltacht

Gaeltacht

is the Irish language word meaning an Irish-speaking region. In Ireland, the Gaeltacht, or an Ghaeltacht, refers individually to any, or collectively to all, of the districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant language, that is, the vernacular spoken at home...

 and county football for the Galway senior football panel.

Underage Achievements

Breathnach captained the St. Jarlaths College, Tuam

St. Jarlath's College

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 senior football team in 2004. He was chosen to represent Ireland as part of the International rules

International rules football

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 schoolboy series of that year.

He then proceeded to win a 'Fresher A' interversity title with NUI,Galway in 2005. In that year he won the 2005 All-Ireland U-21 Football Championship with Galway.

Galway Senior Career

Breathnach is a member of the current Galway senior football squad. Although he operates as a forward, he is not known as a prolific scorer. He made his debut under Peter Forde in 2006 as a substitute in a SFC

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship

The All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the premier competition in Gaelic football, is a series of games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and played during the summer and early autumn...

 qualifier against Westmeath

Westmeath GAA

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. A career highlight was the vital goal he scored in the 2008 Connacht SFC final against Mayo

Mayo GAA

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Club honours

Breathnach captained his club Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir

CLG Naomh Anna, Leitir Móir

CLG Naomh Anna, Leitir Moir is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Gaeltacht area of Leitir Móir, County Galway, Ireland. The club is a member of the Galway GAA...

 to the Galway Intermediate Football Championship in 2009 and also the Connacht Intermediate Club title

Connacht Intermediate Club Football Championship

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. Leitir Móir eventually lost to Cookstown Fr. Rock's

Cookstown Fr. Rock's

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 from Tyrone

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 in the All-Ireland series

All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship

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 on the 24th of January 2010 at Pearse Park

Pearse Park

Pearse Park is a Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in Longford, Ireland. It is the main grounds of Longford GAA's Gaelic football and hurling teams. The ground has a capacity of 18,000....

, Longford

Longford

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See also

• Cárthach Bán Breathnach
  Cárthach Bán Breathnach
  Cárthach Bán Breathnach is an Irish media celebrity most noted for his role in the hit TG4 series Aifric and more recently he appeared as Aoddhan in the rish language soap Ros na Rún where he played a local ladies man. He is also a noted DJ and sports enthusiast...
  
  
• Maire Breathnach
  Maire Breathnach
  Maire Breathnach, is an Irish actress.Breathnach plays the part of Mo Gilmartin on the Irish language drama, Ros na Rún.She is a native of Cnoc Leitirmullen, and won the County football final with her local team...
  
  
• Mícheál Breathnach
  Mícheál Breathnach
  Mícheál Breathnach was an Irish writer.Born at Cois Fhairrge, Connemara. Worked for some time as a Secretary of the London Branch of the Gaelic League. He later worked as headmaster of the Connaught College in Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, County Mayo...
  
  
• Micheál Breathnach
  Micheál Breathnach
  Micheál Breathnach, Irish writer, Born at Sylaun, Tuam, County Galway, the son of two teachers, raised as a Gaeilgeoir . he was educated by the Jesuits at Coláiste Iognáid, Galway, and later at Queen's University, Galway where he graduated with a B.A. in Irish, French and English...
  
  
• Pádraic Breathnach
  Pádraic Breathnach
  Pádraic Breathnach, Irish actor, performer, writer and television producer, born c. 1950.A fluent Irish speaker, Pádraic grew up in Carna, Connemara. As a student in NUI Galway, he was deeply involved with An Cumann Drámaíochta and Dramsoc, where he teamed up with Ollie Jennings in a series of...
  
  
• Seán Bán Breathnach
  Seán Bán Breathnach
  Seán Bán Breathnach is a radio and television broadcaster and personality in the Ireland. He broadcasts in the medium of the Irish language, but is well known to English speakers in the country.-Broadcasting:...