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
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where he scored three goals. At the
2018 World Cup
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, 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
Belgium
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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.
References
External links
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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
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