Kieran Fitzgerald (born 1 January 1981) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Corofin between 1998 and 2020 and for the Galway county team between 2000 and 2011.
Career Fitzgerald won an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medal in 2001. That year he also received an All Star He was named Galway captain in 2007, and made his International Rules Series debut in 2006.
Personal life Fitzgerald dated Mairéad Meehan, a sister of the Galway inter-county footballers Declan, Michael, Noel and Tomás Meehan. They had met after the 2001 National Football League final, but Mairéad Meehan died of osteosarcoma at the age of 25 in late January 2007. He later met his wife Emer (née Flaherty). Fitzgerald was the subject of a Laochra Gael episode, which aired in February 2022.
Honours Club All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship (4): 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 Connacht Senior Club Football Championship (7): 2008, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Galway Senior Football Championship (14): 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
County All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (1): 2001 Connacht Senior Football Championship (4): 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship (1): 2002 Connacht Under-21 Football Championship (2): 2000, 2002
Individual All Star Award (1): 2001 Club Football Team of the Year (2): 2018, 2020
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