Darragh Egan
Darragh Egan is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Kiladangan and previously with the Tipperary senior inter-county team as a forward and as a goalkeeper.
He played for NUI Galway in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and was part of the side that lost the 2007 final.
Egan made his debut with the Tipperary in February 2005 when he lined out at full-forward in the League against Down, scoring 1-1. On 5 September 2010, Egan was a non-playing substitute as Tipperary won their 26th All Ireland title, beating reigning champions Kilkenny by 4-17 to 1-18 in the final, preventing Kilkenny from achieving a historic 5-in-a-row, it was Egan's first All-Ireland winners medal.
Egan was the substitute goalkeeper for Tipperary in the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final.
Egan, his wife Sarah and mother Mary featured in an episode of RTÉ’s Room to Improve in 2016 following his inter-county retirement; by that stage, at the age of thirty, Egan was principal of Kildangan national school.
In October 2018, Egan was named by new Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy as a coach of the Tipperary senior hurling team for 2019.
