Ciarán Brady is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays as a wing back for the Cavan county team.
[4][5] Brady later joined the Arva senior team, and the club reached the final of the Cavan Junior Football Championship in 2013.
[7] Promoted to the Cavan Intermediate Football Championship for 2015, Arva reached the final in their first year, with Brady scoring an injury-time goal in the semi-final against Belturbet.
[14] Arva went on to beat Ballymaguigan in the quarter-final[15] and Lisnaskea in the semi-final to qualify for the final of the Ulster Junior Club Football Championship.
[16] Brady scored two points and was man of the match as Arva won the Ulster title with a seven-point win over Blackhill.
[17] Arva went on to reach the final of the All-Ireland Junior Club Football Championship with a twelve-point semi-final win over Milltown.
Brady scored four points from midfield and was named man of the match as he captained his team to the All-Ireland title.
Arva went on to win the final by ten points, with Brady captaining his club to back-to-back county titles.
[28] Brady later played in the All-Ireland semi-final, scoring a point in Cavan's one-point defeat to eventual champions Dublin.
[34] On 3 April 2016, Brady was in the half back line as Cavan beat Galway to earn promotion to Division 1 of the National Football League.
[36] Ahead of the 2018 season, manager Mattie McGleenan named Brady as vice-captain of the team, with Dara McVeety as captain.
The match finished a draw,[39] and Brady was suspended for the replay as Cavan reached the Ulster final for the first time since 2001.
[46] On 23 April 2022, Brady made his return from injury, coming on as a late substitute in Cavan's Ulster quarter-final win over Antrim.
[48] On 1 April 2023, Brady was in the half back line for the Division 3 final against Fermanagh, and was named man of the match in Cavan's 0–16 to 1–7 win.