Martin Breheny

Martin Breheny is an Irish journalist and sportswriter from County Galway. He began his career at The Tuam Herald before moving to The Irish Press in 1979.

Breheny is former Gaelic games correspondent with the Irish Independent, for which he continues to write as of .

Early life Breheny is from the north County Galway village of Kilkerrin.

Breheny spent four years working for The Tuam Herald before embarking on a 41-year national media career. however, he continued to write for the paper.

Breheny has covered All-Ireland Finals in both football and hurling for many decades, attending his first final in 1971 (football) and his 100th in 2019 (football; drawn game). In 2020, he gave his favourite final in each code as 1998 (football) and 2009 (hurling). first doing so in 1983.

Breheny helped write the autobiographies of footballers John O'Leary (published 1997) and Mick O'Dwyer (published 2000), and hurlers D. J. Carey (published 2013) and Brian Cody.

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in March 2020.