John Quane

John Quane was a Gaelic footballer from County Limerick, Ireland. He played with the Limerick team from 1991 to 2005. He played at midfield and was one of the top players in the county for most of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

In his first year at senior level he helped Limerick to a first Munster Senior Football Championship final since 1965 in a high scoring game with Kerry Limerick came out the wrong end of a 0-23 to 3-12 scoreline. After a number of unsuccessful years in Munster Limerick made it to the 2003 and 2004 Munster Senior Football Championship finals but lost out again to Kerry in both.

When the Qualifiers were brought into the Championship it offered teams like Limerick a second chance in the championship which Limerick used well in 2002 by making it to Round 3 with wins over Cavan and Offaly in Rounds 1 & 2 before eventually going down to Mayo. At the end of that year he received an All Star nomination.

In 2004 Limerick made it to Div 1 of the National League for the first time in their history making it to the semi-final before going down once again to Munster rivals Kerry.

He was an automatic choice on the Munster Railway Cup football team. He was part of the winning team in 1999, Munster's first win since 1982

Quane also played with the Irish team in the International Rules Series.

He played his club football with the Galtee Gaels club. Quane won a Lmerick Senior Football Championship with Glencunane Rovers in 1991 and has also won an Intermediate title with Galtee Gaels. He did however take part in the first season of RTÉ's Celebrity Bainisteoir.

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