Shane O'Donoghue (field hockey)
Irish field hockey player (b. 1992)
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Shane O'Donoghue (born 24 November 1992) is an Irish field hockey player who is Ireland's record goal scorer with 110 goals to date. He is the player-coach for his boyhood club Glennane and plays in the midfield for both Glenanne and the Irish national team.
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| Born |
24 November 1992 Dublin, Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfield | ||||||||||||||||
| Club information | |||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Glennane | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| –2011 | Glennane | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2014 | UCD | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Dragons | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Glennane | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Dragons | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Glennane | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–present | Ireland | 190 | (110) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Last updated on: 30 June 2020 | |||||||||||||||||
With the Irish national team, he competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics where he scored three goals.[1] At the 2018 World Cup, O'Donoghue set the new record as career top goal scorer for Ireland, surpassing the 93 goals scored by John Jermyn;[2] he has continued adding to the record, which he has increased to 110 goals.
Club career
He played club hockey for KHC Dragons in Belgium, which he rejoined in 2018 after having played for them between 2014 and 2016.[3] After the 2019–20 season he returned to Glennane in Ireland.[4]
