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Shane O'Donoghue (born 24 November 1992) is an Irish
field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player who is Ireland's record goal scorer with 110 goals to date. He is the player-coach for his boyhood club Glennane and plays in the midfield for both Glenanne and the Irish national team. With the Irish national team, he competed at the
2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...
where he scored three goals. At the
2018 World Cup The 2018 FIFA World Cup was the 21st FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in l ...
, O'Donoghue set the new record as career top goal scorer for Ireland, surpassing the 93 goals scored by John Jermyn; he has continued adding to the record, which he has increased to 110 goals.


Club career

He played club hockey for KHC Dragons in
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, which he rejoined in 2018 after having played for them between 2014 and 2016. After the 2019–20 season he returned to Glennane in Ireland.


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Hockey Ireland profile
1992 births Living people Irish male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Ireland 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players KHC Dragons players Irish expatriate field hockey players People educated at The High School, Dublin Field hockey players from County Dublin Men's Irish Hockey League players Ireland international men's field hockey players Men's Belgian Hockey League players 21st-century Irish sportsmen {{Ireland-fieldhockey-bio-stub