Brian Concannon (hurler)
# Brian Concannon (hurler)

Brian Concannon (born 1997) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for club side Killimordaly and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a right corner-forward.

## Playing career

### NUI Galway

As a student at NUI Galway, Concannon has been a regular player on the university's senior hurling team in the Fitzgibbon Cup.

### Killimordaly

Concannon joined the Killimordaly club at a young age and played in all grades at juvenile and underage levels before joining the club's senior team.

### Galway

**Minor and under-21**

Concannon first played for Galway as a member of the minor hurling team on 26 July 2015. He made his first appearance in a 1-14 to 0-13 All-Ireland quarter-final defeat of Limerick. On 6 September 2015, Concannon scored a goal from right wing-forward in Galway's 4-13 to 1-16 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park.

On 20 August 2016, Concannon made his first appearance for the Galway under-21 team in a 0-21 to 0-19 All-Ireland semi-final defeat of Dublin. In the subsequent All-Ireland final on 10 September 2016, he was an unused substitute in the 5-15 to 0-14 defeat by Waterford.

Concannon won a Leinster Championship medal on 4 July 2018 after a 4-21 to 2-26 extra-time defeat of Wexford in the final. In Concannon's last game in the grade on 8 August 2018, he was red-carded in the 33rd minute for an off-the-ball strike.

**Senior**

Concannon was one of eight new players drafted onto the Galway senior hurling panel prior to the start of the 2018 National League. He made his senior debut, scoring 1-01 from play at right corner-forward, in a 1-19 to 1-16 National Hurling League defeat of Antrim on 28 January 2018. Later that season Concannon made his first appearance in the Leinster Championship, scoring 2-01 from play, in a 5-18 to 2-15 defeat of Offaly. On 8 July 2018, he was an unused substitute in Galway's 1-28 to 3-15 Leinster final replay defeat of Kilkenny at Semple Stadium. Concannon subsequently missed the All-Ireland final defeat by Limerick after having the red card he picked up in an under-21 game upheld after an appeal.

## Career statistics

    As of match played 6 June 2021.

| Team | Year | National League | National League | National League | Leinster | Leinster | All-Ireland | All-Ireland | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Team | Year | Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score |
| Galway | 2018 | Division 1B | 6 | 1-02 | 4 | 2-02 | 0 | 0-00 | 10 | 3-04 |
| Galway | 2019 | Division 1B | 6 | 2-06 | 4 | 1-04 | — | — | 10 | 3-10 |
| Galway | 2020 | Division 1A | 4 | 1-08 | 2 | 1-05 | 2 | 1-03 | 8 | 4-16 |
| Galway | 2021 | Division 1A | 4 | 3-07 | 0 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 4 | 3-07 |
| Total | Total | Total | 20 | 7-23 | 10 | 4-11 | 2 | 1-03 | 32 | 12-37 |

## Honours

### Galway

* Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2018
* National Hurling League (1): 2021
* Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship (1): 2018
* All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2015
