Danny Cullen


Danny Cullen is a hurler. He plays for Setanta, the Donegal county team and the Ireland national team.
Cullen's grandfather, Danny Snr, was a founder of Setanta in 1979. He won a Donegal Senior Hurling Championship in 2017. Setanta followed this with an Ulster Junior Club Hurling Championship, also in 2017. He won another Donegal SHC in 2019, scoring 0–1 in the final.
Cullen made his debut for Donegal at the age of 16. He has also captained his county.
He played for NUI Galway.
He was part of a delegation to Croke Park who staged a sit-in as part of their effort to free Donegal manager Eamonn Campbell from suspension for the 2009 Lory Meagher Cup final against Tyrone.
Cullen won the 2013 Nicky Rackard Cup with Donegal, playing in the final against Roscommon and scoring three points.
He played for Donegal during the 2018 National Hurling League, when the county recorded their first competitive victories over Derry and Down. He later cited the Down victory as important to him, since Down versus Tipperary in the 1997 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final was the first hurling match he attended at Croke Park. Donegal also defeated Armagh in the closing game of that league campaign. They went on to win the 2018 Nicky Rackard Cup.
Cullen was selected to play for Ireland against Scotland in the Shinty-Hurling International Series played over two games at Croke Park in Dublin and Bught Park in Inverness in 2013. He was also selected for the Inverness contest at Bught Park in 2018. Ireland lost. He captained the Ireland team for the Abbotstown contest in 2019, and was his county's only representative in that year's squad. Though he scored, Ireland unfortunately lost.
Cullen is a Champion 15 nominee.
He appeared in a short film on hurling made by a CNN-owned company based in New York and London.
He has coached under-age teams for his club.
His sister, Ciara, is married to Declan Coulter.

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