Aaron Gillane (born 1996) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for club side Patrickswell and at inter-county level with the Limerick senior hurling team.
On 22 February 2014, he was introduced as asubstitute when Arscoil Rís defeated Scoil na Trionóide from Doon by 2-13 to 0-04 in the final of the Harty Cup.
A combination of not being "good enough" and the prospect of soccer success could have resulted in Gillane walking away from the game but for the intervention of club legend Ciarán Carey who coaxed him onto the senior team.
[3][4] Gillane was in the early stages of his senior club career when Patrickswell suffered a one-point defeat by Na Piarsaigh in the 2015 county final.
[5] Throughout the 2016 Limerick County Championship, Gillane further established himself as a key member of the starting fifteen by sharing the free-taking duties with Diarmaid Byrnes.
[9] After a season of no underage inter-county activity, Gillane made his debut with the Limerick under-21 team on 28 June 2016 when he lined out at right corner-forward in a Munster quarter-final win over Cork.
[14] Gillane was in his final season with the Limerick under-21 team when he was drafted onto the senior panel by new manager John Kiely in advance of the 2017 Munster League.
On 2 June 2018, Gillane was red carded and received a one-match suspension for digging twice at Cork's Seán O'Donoghue in their Munster Championship Round 3 game.
[29] Gillane wasn't included on the Limerick team for the two group stage games of the 2020 Munster League, with David Reidy taking over the free-taking duties.
[33] Limerick selector Donal O'Grady later cast doubt on his ability to recover in time for the All-Ireland final: "Aaron didn't train on Tuesday, obviously he took a heavy hit there at the weekend.