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Place of Birth: Ballinasloe, Connacht, Ireland
About Anthony Cunningham
- Anthony Cunningham (born 16 June 1965) is a former hurler who has since managed various Gaelic football and hurling teams.
- He is the current manager of the Roscommon county football team.
- He is the only manager to lead a football team and a hurling team to provincial titles in two different provinces.Born in Peterswell, County Galway, Cunningham was raised in a hurling stronghold in the south of the county.
- He was a two-time Connacht medallist at colleges level with Our Lady's College while simultaneously joining the St.
- Thomas' senior club team. Cunningham made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of fifteen when he first linked up with the Galway minor team.
- An All-Ireland-winning captain in this grade, he later captained Galway to an All-Ireland title with the under-21 team.
- Cunningham joined the senior panel during the 1983-84 league.
- He went on to play a key role for Galway in attack during a hugely successful era, and won two All-Ireland medals and one National Hurling League medal.
- He was an All-Ireland runner-up on four occasions. As a member of the Connacht inter-provincial team, Cunningham won four Railway Cup medals between 1986 and 1991.
- Throughout his inter-county career he made 15 championship appearances.
- Cunningham retired from inter-county hurling following the conclusion of the 1993 championship. Equally adept as a coach of both hurling and Gaelic football, Cunningham's first position as manager of the Roscommon senior hurling team was an unsuccessful one.
- In 2006 he took charge of the St.
- Brigid's football team, guiding them to back-to-back championship titles.
- Cunningham later guided Garrycastle to an All-Ireland appearance having already secured a Leinster title and three successive championship titles. In 2009 Cunningham was back as an inter-county manager with the Galway under-21 hurling team.
- A successful tenure, culminating in the winning of the All-Ireland title, led to Cunningham being appointed manager of the Galway senior team on 27 October 2011.
- He has since gone on to lead Galway to two All-Ireland final appearances and a Leinster title.
- He was manager of the Galway senior team from 2011 to 2015.
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