Anna Geary (born 28 July 1987) is a camogie player and television personality from Milford,

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Sporting career

She is a winner of four All Star awards, most recently in 2011. She previously won All-Star awards in 2005 and 2006 and 2010. and All Ireland medals in 2005 2006, 2009 and 2014. She was nominated for a further All-Star award in 2007. Geary was captain as Cork won the

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. Geary Is the winner of 3 All Ireland Club medals in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Three Munster camogie club medals and three county camogie medals with her club Milford. She also won a European camogie championship playing for GSC Luxembourg in 2008. In May 2015, Geary announced her retirement from inter-county camogie at the age of 27.

Personal life

In 2019 Geary married her long-time partner, Dublin man Kevin Sexton, in a ceremony at

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, County Cork.

Television career

In 2015, she joined the coaching panel of the

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reality competition series, ''

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''. In her first year on the series she made it to the final with her family, the Daverns, ultimately finishing in third place. She returned to the show in 2016, winning this time with the Cummins family from Co. Tipperary. It was confirmed in May 2017 that Anna would return to the series for a third consecutive year alongside

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, returning coach

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and new coach,

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. In 2016, she hosted a weekly sport segment on TV3's ''The Seven O'Clock Show'' with Martin King and

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. She was also a contributor on Marty Morrissey's weekly RTÉ Radio 1 show, The Marty Squad. In 2017, she was announced as the pitch-side presenter of

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's Match Night Live. In 2018, she competed in Dancing With the stars

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in Ireland and finished runner-up.

References

External links

* Anna wins Cork's only All Star in 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101108075114/http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2010/1106/camogie.html * {{DEFAULTSORT:Geary, Anna Living people Cork camogie players 1988 births