Lee Keegan

Lee Keegan (born 25 October 1989) is a Gaelic footballer who plays as a defender for Westport and, formerly, for the Mayo county team. Many regard Keegan as his county's greatest ever footballer. He is also the highest scoring defender of all-time having clocked up 6–40 in 54 championship matches.

Keegan is the only player to win five All Stars without winning an All-Ireland medal.

Early life Keegan attended Rice College, Westport and played football for the school.

Inter-county Keegan never played at minor level. He was named in the 2012 All Star football team in the right half-back position.

Keegan played against Dublin again in the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and was shown a black card so had to be substituted.

Keegan played against Dublin again in the 2017 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.

He was centrally involved in Mayo's 2021 All-Ireland SFC semi-final comeback against Dublin.

International Keegan played twice for Ireland against Australia in the 2013 International Rules Series, which Ireland won.

Keegan was also named in the squad for the 2014 International Rules Series.

Keegan was named as vice-captain for the 2015 International Rules Series. Ireland won the 2015 Series.

Player profile The Irish Independents Frank Roche described Keegan in 2022 as "A smiling assassin in one game; a man-marking pest the next". In June 2022, Maurice Brosnan (a sports journalist) tweeted a one-minute video montage featuring six points Keegan had scored in the championship over the previous ten months. Also in May 2020, the Irish Independent named Keegan as one of the "dozens of brilliant players" who narrowly missed selection for its "Top 20 footballers in Ireland over the past 50 years".