Declan Browne
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| Irish name | Déaglan de Brun | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Born |
16 June 1978 Tipperary, Ireland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
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| Years | Club | ||
? 1995–present | Moyle Rovers | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Tipperary titles |
7 (senior football) 2 (junior hurling) | ||
| Munster titles | 1 (junior hurling) | ||
| Inter-county** | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
1996–2007 | Tipperary | 25 (9-140) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| All Stars | 2 | ||
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| **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of (20:47, 3 June 2007 (UTC)). | |||
Declan Browne (born 16 June 1978) is an Irish Gaelic football coach and player who competed at inter-county level for Tipperary for 11 years. He currently plays his club football for Moyle Rovers.[1] He represented Ireland against Australia in the 2003 and 2004 International Rules series.[2]
Browne made his championship debut in 1996 in a Munster championship game against Kerry. Browne received Tipperary's first football All-Star in 1998 when he was picked at corner-forward after leading the Tipperary team to the Munster Football Final. Browne won his second All-Star award in 2003.[3] He has won seven Tipperary Senior Football Championship medals with his club, Moyle Rovers. He won a Munster Minor Football Championship medal in 1995, a Munster and All Ireland Minor Hurling medal in 1996 and a Munster U-21 Hurling medal in 1999 as well as a McGrath Cup medal in 2003 and was awarded the Munster footballer of the year award for that same year. He also won 2 Fitzgibbon Cup medals. Browne captained Tipperary to win the 2005 Tommy Murphy Cup.[4] In 2007, he announced his retirement from the inter-county scene, following Tipperary's defeat by Clare in the Tommy Murphy Cup.[5]
Management
Browne took over as the manager of the Tipperary Under-21 Football team in September 2016.[6] His first game in charge was against Limerick on 8 March 2017 in the Munster Under-21 Football Championship which Tipperary lost 0–14 to 0–16.[7][8][9]
In January 2021, Browne joined the Tipperary senior football management team as the forwards coach.[10][11]