He plays hurling with his local club Toomevara and has also featured on the Tipperary senior inter-county team.
Francis Devaney was born in the parish of Toomevara, County Tipperary in 1984.
He won another county medal in 2004 before winning his first Munster club hurling title.
Devaney joined the Tipperary minor hurling team in the early 2000s.
Later that year he made his Munster Championship debut in a game against Limerick.