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{{Short description|Galway hurler}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2010}}
{{Infobox Gaelic games player
|image           = Ger Farragher (cropped).jpg
|name            = Ger Farragher
|irish           = 
|nickname        =
|occupation      =
|birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1983|6|10|df=yes}}
|birth_place     = [[Galway]], [[Ireland]]
|height          = {{convert|1.8|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}
|sport           = Hurling
|code            = Hurling
|county          = Galway
|province        = Connacht
|club            = [[Castlegar GAA|Castlegar]]
|clyears         = 1999–
|clposition      = Midfield
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|clallireland    =
|counties        = [[Galway county hurling team|Galway]]
|icyears         = 2002–2011
|icposition      = Midfield
|icapps(points)  = 33 (6–127)
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|icallireland    =
|nhl             = 1
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'''Ger Farragher''' (born 10 June 1983) is an Irish sportsman. A [[Hurling|hurler]], he played at senior level in the forward line on the [[Galway county hurling team|Galway county team]]. He plays his club hurling with [[Castlegar GAA|Castlegar]].

Farragher was born in [[Galway]] in 1983 and has had much success in the game of hurling. At inter-county level he has won 2 back-to-back minor All-Ireland medals in 1999 and 2000. In 2002 he made his [[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|senior championship]] debut and has gone on to be one of the game's most prolific scorers. Farragher also has an All-Ireland senior hurling runners-up medal from 2005 when he was the top-scorer in the championship. He has also played on [[Institute of Technology, Sligo]]'s Ryan Cup team. In 2005 Farragher claimed his first [[GAA All Stars Awards|All-Star Award]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/ger-takes-new-steps-forward-1311570.html|title=Ger takes new steps forward|work=[[Irish Independent]]|date=9 March 2009|access-date=2010-07-17}}</ref>

In 2010, Farragher was named Opel GPA player of the League for his performance in the [[National Hurling League 2010|National Hurling League]] that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/2010/05/13/steven-mcdonnell-and-galways-ger-farragher-win-awards/ |title=Steven McDonnell and Galway's Ger Farragher win Awards |publisher=Sportsnewsireland.com |date=13 May 2010 |access-date=2010-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518233248/http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/2010/05/13/steven-mcdonnell-and-galways-ger-farragher-win-awards/ |archive-date=18 May 2010}}</ref>

Farragher also played soccer with Oranbay 90 (now incorporated in Maree Oranmore FC) in the Galway FA leagues. Farragher usually operated as a winger for the Maree Oranmore outfit

==Career statistics==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Team
!rowspan="2"|Year
!colspan="3"|[[National Hurling League|National League]]
!colspan="2"|[[Leinster Senior Hurling Championship|Leinster]]
!colspan="2"|[[All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship|All-Ireland]]

!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Division!!Apps!!Score!!Apps!!Score!!Apps!!Score!!Apps!!Score
|-
|rowspan="10"|[[Galway county hurling team|Galway]]
|2002
|rowspan="4"|[[National Hurling League|Division 1A]]
|0||0-00||0||0-00||2||0-01||2||0-01
|-
|2003
|2||0-00||0||0-00||0||0-00||2||0-00
|-
|2004
|0||0-00||0||0-00||0||0-00||0||0-00
|-
|2005
|7||2-54||0||0-00||6||3-57||13||5-111
|-
|2006
|rowspan="3"|[[National Hurling League|Division 1B]]
|5||2-31||0||0-00||4||1-22||9||3-53
|-
|2007
|4||0-00||0||0-00||0||0-00||4||0-00
|-
|2008
|7||4-53||0||0-00||2||0-04||9||4-57
|-
|2009
|rowspan="3"|[[National Hurling League|Division 1]]
|4||0-10||0||0-00||3||0-03||7||0-13
|-
|2010
|7||0-44||4||1-28||1||0-02||12||1-74
|-
|2011
|6||0-44||0||0-00||3||0-10||9||0-54
|-
!colspan="3"|Total
|'''42'''||'''8-236'''||'''4'''||'''1-28'''||'''21'''||'''4-99'''||'''67'''||'''13-363'''
|}

==References==
{{Commons category}}
{{Reflist}}
[http://www.castlegarhurlingclub.org/component/content/article/124 Ger Farragher Club page ]

{{Galway Minor Hurling Team 1999}}
{{Galway Minor Hurling Team 2000}}
{{Galway Hurling Team 2005}}
{{Galway NHL Hurling Team 2010}}
{{2005 Hurling All Stars}}
{{All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship top scorers}}

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[[Category:1983 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Institute of Technology, Sligo]]
[[Category:Castlegar hurlers]]
[[Category:Galway inter-county hurlers]]
[[Category:21st-century Irish sportsmen]]

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