| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Éamonn Ó Braonáin | ||
| Sport | Hurling | ||
| Position | Left corner-forward | ||
| Born |
2 October 1978 Waterford, Ireland | ||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
| Nickname | Fast Eddie | ||
| Occupation | Detective Garda | ||
| Club(s)* | |||
| Years | Club | Apps (scores) | |
2000–2019 | Graigue–Ballycallan | 35 (11-66) | |
| Club titles | |||
| Kilkenny titles | 2 | ||
| Leinster titles | 1 | ||
| All-Ireland Titles | 0 | ||
| Inter-county(ies)** | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
2000–2012 | Kilkenny | 48 (26-63) | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Leinster titles | 11 | ||
| All-Irelands | 8 | ||
| NHL | 5 | ||
| All Stars | 4 | ||
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* club appearances and scores correct as of 16:40, 17 January 2021. **Inter County team apps and scores correct as of 18:58, 4 June 2018. | |||
Edward Joseph Brennan (born 2 October 1978) is an Irish hurling manager and former player. His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted twelve seasons from 2000 until 2011.[1] Brennan was the manager of the Laois senior hurling team from 2019 to 2020.[2][3]
Brennan played competitive hurling in his final year at St Kieran's College, having earlier come to prominence as a dual player at minor levels with the Graigue–Ballycallan club. He won dual championship medals with the minor and under-21 teams, before later joining the club's junior team. Brennan eventually made the break onto the Graigue–Ballycallan senior team and won a Leinster medal in 2000, having earlier won a county senior championship medal.
Brennan made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty when he was selected for the Kilkenny under-21 team. He won an All-Ireland medal in this grade in 1999. He made his senior debut during the 2000 league. Over the course of the following twelve seasons Brennan won eight All-Ireland medals, beginning with a lone triumph in 2000, back-to-back titles in 2002 and 2003, a record-equalling four championships in-a-row from 2006 to 2009 and a final winners' medal in 2011. He also won eleven Leinster medals and five National Hurling League medals. Brennan played his last game for Kilkenny in September 2011 and announced his retirement on 14 January 2012.
After being chosen on the Leinster inter-provincial team for the first time in 2002, Brennan was a regular on the starting fifteen at various times until 2009. During that time he won four Railway Cup medals.
In retirement from playing Brennan combined his policing career with a new position as a sports broadcaster. His media career began with RTÉ in 2012, where he started as a studio analyst with the flagship programme the Sunday Game.
Even during his playing days Brennan came to be recognised as one of the greatest players of his era. As one of the most prolific goal-scorers of the decade, he won four All Star Awards, three Gaelic Players' Awards and was a nominee for Hurler of the Year in 2008. Brennan was named as one of the 125 greatest stars of the GAA as part of the GAA 125 celebrations in 2009, the same year he was selected at right corner-forward on the Leinster team of the past twenty-five years.