Lee Keegan (born 25 October 1989) is a Gaelic footballer who plays as a defender for Westport and, formerly, for the Mayo county team.
[1] He also scored a goal against Dublin goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton in three consecutive championship matches.
[1] Kevin Keane, another Westport player, attended Rice College at the same time and played with Keegan on the school team.
He first played Dublin in a National Football League game that was abandoned midway due to fog (although the GAA officially counts those sorts of matches, even if the result is void).
[9] Keegan played against Dublin again in the 2016 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final and was shown a black card so had to be substituted.
[18] The Irish Independent's Frank Roche described Keegan in 2022 as "A smiling assassin in one game; a man-marking pest the next".
[1] In June 2022, Maurice Brosnan (a sports journalist) tweeted a one-minute video montage featuring six points Keegan had scored in the championship over the previous ten months.
[1] Mayo, Rice College and Westport teammate Kevin Keane later said: "People are very quick to judge.
Even in 2019, against Dublin [when his performance against Con O'Callaghan was scrutinised], Lee was held together with an ankle injury".