Denis ('Denny') Curran (6 December 1875 – 25 August 1968) was an Irish footballer and Fianna Fáil political figure.
The third son of Patrick Curran, a farmer of Ballyseedy, County Kerry, he was apprenticed as a grocer as a young man, and 'lived in' at Baily's in the Mall in Tralee.
[3] Curran was one of Kerry's players (as a forward) against Kildare in the 1903 All-Ireland home final series of games, contributing to their victory (over London Hibernians)- the first ever win for the Kerry side at this level- by scoring a goal at a critical point in the final match, played on 12 November 1905, which was scored 0-11 to 0-3.
[4][5] Although Kerry dominated the game for decades afterwards, their failure to score in the first half of a 1966 game (which Kerry eventually won by two points) against Wicklow led to the players being jeered by their own fans; Curran observed 'Lord bless my soul, I never saw worse in my life.
[7] On Curran's death, only Denny Breen remained of the 1903 Kerry winning team.