Kieran Cremin is an Irish Gaelic footballer with the Dr. Crokes

Dr. Crokes

Dr Crokes is a Gaelic football club based in Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. Famous current players include Colm "Gooch" Cooper and Eoin Brosnan....

 club team and formerly with the Kerry

Kerry GAA

The Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Kerry...

 county team.

Playing career

Cremin was a member of the Kerry team that played in the 1998 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

All-Ireland Minor Football Championship

The All-Ireland Minor Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition for under-18 competitors of the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland...

, winning the Munster Minor Football Championship

Munster Minor Football Championship

The Munster Minor Football Championship is the Minor "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Munster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Munster Council. The current Munster Minor football champions are Tipperary. Clare won the inaugural...

. He then went on to play with the county u-21 team in the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship

All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship

The All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition for players aged between 18 and 21 in the game of Gaelic football played in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association and are played during the summer months...

 from 1999 to 2001, winning one Munster Under-21 Football Championship

Munster Under-21 Football Championship

The Munster Under-21 Football Championship is the premier "knockout" competition for players aged between 18 and 21 in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Munster, in Ireland....

. Cremin went on to win a Munster Junior Football Championship

Munster Junior Football Championship

The Munster Junior football championship is an annual Gaelic football competition between the Munster GAA counties. The rules with respect to who is eligible vary between the counties. In Cork and Kerry, the players can not play with a senior club. In the other four counties, any player who is not...

 with the Kerry juniors, before being selected for the senior squad.

Cremin was for some time second-choice goalkeeper on the Kerry team. He was regarded as a talented goalkeeper and a likely successor to Diarmuid Murphy

Diarmuid Murphy

Diarmuid Murphy is an Irish sportsperson. He plays Gaelic football with his local club An Daingean and was the goalkeeper on the Kerry senior inter-county team from 2004 until 2009...

 when the latter retired. Indeed, the Sunday Tribune

Sunday Tribune

The Sunday Tribune was an Irish Sunday broadsheet newspaper published by Tribune Newspapers plc. It was edited in its final years by Nóirín Hegarty, who changed both the tone and the physical format of the newspaper from broadsheet to tabloid. Former editors include Conor Brady, Vincent Browne,...

 predicted him as the 2010 All-Star goalkeeper in 2005. http://www.tribune.ie/2006/12/24/80565.html. However, by the time Murphy retired in 2010, so had Cremin.

In 2007, he appeared in an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship

All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship

The All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football tournament run since 1971, played between the thousands of senior football clubs in Ireland. The current champions are Crossmaglen Rangers of Armagh, who defeated St. Brigid's of Roscommon on March 17, 2011 to win their...

 final with Dr. Crokes

Dr. Crokes

Dr Crokes is a Gaelic football club based in Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. Famous current players include Colm "Gooch" Cooper and Eoin Brosnan....

, although they were controversially defeated in a replay by Crossmaglen Rangers

Crossmaglen Rangers

Crossmaglen Rangers G.A.C is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. They cater for Gaelic football and camogie. Their home football ground is St. Oliver Plunkett Park which was opened in 1959...

.

External links

• http://www.tribune.ie/2006/12/24/80565
• http://83.245.38.233/en/Sport/News/Other-sports/2008/02/14/GAA-Kerry-select-side-for-crunch-clash/?facets/sport-space/north-america-locale/gaa/
• http://www.drcrokes.com/seniornews.htm
• http://www.kerrygaa.ie/old_website/intercounty/2006/senfoot/final2006/meetings.htm
• http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/?c=SPORT&jp=cweyidmhqlkf&d=2006-03-09
• http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2006/0302/kerry.html