Name: Tommy Achuff

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Full Back

Life Lowdown:Below average surfer, snowboarder, footballer, drummer, student, employee, and lover. Good Haircutter though

Job:Accountant

Year started playing with Setanta:2009

Name: Grant Barker

Born:

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Position:Half Back

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Year started playing with Setanta:2008

Name: Geoff Barnett

Born: San Diego, California

Lives: University Town Center

Position: Full Back

Life Lowdown:Also participates in soccer, boxing and eating burritos

Job: Sales Manager

Year started playing with Setanta:2004

Name:Patrick Blake

Born:: Montrose, Scotland

Lives: Downtown

Position:: Half Forward or any other position that will give me playing time on the pitch without giving our opponent too much of an advantage.

Life Lowdown:Born in Scotland but lost the accent and the overwhelming urge to wear a kilt a long, long time ago. Didn’t know anything about Gaelic Football until last year...still don’t to be quite honest.

Job:Sailing the Seven Seas for the U.S. Navy

Year started playing with Setanta:2008

Name:Richard Bombgargner

Born:Frankfurt, Germany

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Live work and play in the city of San Diego. Travel a good amount, but not enough outside the USA. If you like my Gaelic play, wait til you see me on the dancefloor!

Job:IT Security Compliance Auditor

Year started playing with Setanta:2007

Name:Ryan Boyle

Born:Irvine, California

Lives:Northpark

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown:Hobbies and interests include watching and playing sports: Soccer, Baseball, American Football, Dodgeball, Softball, Golf, Snowboarding, and Bodyboarding. Enjoys quality time with friends and family, cold beer, good food and music. Grew up playing soccer for the Irvine Lasers, Irvine Strikers, San Juan Soccer Club, and Woodbridge High School. Became interested in Gaelic Football after talking with a co-worker who was on the team.

Job:Accountant

Year started playing with Setanta:2008

Name: Ultan Breslin

Born:Killybeggs, Co. Donegal

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown:Ultan joined Setanta in 2005 soon after moving to San Diego from New York. A utility player who has played Half Back, midfield and forward for the club. Recently began a new career as a plumber so If you need your toilet unblocked, give Ultan a call!

Stupid Dublin Nickname:The Gull

Name: Kevin Browne

Born:Liverpool, England

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Centre Half Back

Life Lowdown:Moved to Portmarnock, North Dublin at a young age (5) where he furthered his existing skills in Car robbery and petty crime. Played at Croker at Schoolboy (U14) level for National finals for St.Helens at which point I hung up the GAA boots until Setanta took me out of retirement. Family lineage can reportedly be traced to the great man, Cassius Clay

Name: Anthony Carolan

Born: Dromiskin, County Louth

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position: Centre Half Forward

Life Lowdown: Anthony is a brilliant footballer, the best from Louth to play for the club, apart from Mick Ward.

Name: Seth Collins

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:

Position:Full Forward

Life Lowdown:

Name: Colm Conneely

Born: Killybeggs, County Donegal

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position:Half Back

Setanta Lowdown: I enjoy playin gaa in the sunny so cal weather, it beats the driving rain and the summer hailstones in july of Fintra.

Job:Sales

Year started playing with Setanta:2002

Name: Conor Brian Patrick Coffey

Born: Kilrush, County Clare

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position:Half/Corner Back

Setanta Lowdown: One of the Setanta founders.Moved to San Diego when it was still ruled by Spain. Had much better things to do in San Diego than play Gaelic Football until 1998. Southern California Championship medalist '98, '99, '00, '01, '03, '04, '05, '07; National Championship medalist '00 & '04. Exponent of marathons, indoor and outdoor soccer, indoor and outdoor scrapping. Window breaker extraordinaire.

Name: Stephen D'Arcy

Born: Blackrock, Co.Dublin

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown: Soccer man by trade. never played Gaelic competitively outside of secondary school. Paying for it now.

Job: Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Name: Shane Doherty

Born: Tuam, Co.Galway

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown: Born in Galway then moved to Monaghan where i grew up. Moved to San Diego in Jan 2008

Job: Tile Contractor

Name: Niall Dolan

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Name: Dermot Doyle

Born: Ballyfermot, County Dublin

Lives: North Park

Position: Half Back/Corner Back

Life Lowdown: Grew up on the grey fields of Ballyer, thats concrete in Dub speak. Made St. John's College school team... was bigger and more ignorant than most at the time. Seeing how useless he was, Dermo gravitated to Neptune Rowing Club where they put him in a boat with a stick ! Somewhat appropriate for a thug from Ballyer who's every other word ended with ugh, and in fairness is not how the general populous of Ballyer converse. Neptune sorted him nicely(tamed him) and by the time his days of rowing up and down the Liffey were over, the stick was an oar and the ugh part dropped away. No favourite food, drink or ugly women stories .......yet!!

Stupid Dublin Nickname:Doyler

Name: Brian Dougherty

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Name: Barry Farrell

Born:Portmarnock, Co.Dublin

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Midfield

Life Lowdown:Born and raised in the northside of Dublin,grew up in New York,retired to San Diego.

Name: Conor Fingleton

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Name: Sean Geary

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:

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Name: Dermot Gilligan

Born: Kiltoom, Co.Roscommon

Lives: Fashion Valley

Position: Corner Forward

Setanta Lowdown:Graduated from Summerhill College in Sligo and made his way to San Diego.A longtime servant to Gaelic Football in San Diego. Dermot joined Setanta in 2004 and made an immediate impact at Corner forward.

Stupid Dublin Nickname:Giller

Name: Robert Gilligan

Born: Kiltoom, Co.Roscommon

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position: Midfield

Setanta Lowdown:Has played a number of positions but prefers midfield or half back/half forward. Won an All Ireland Minor medal in 2006 as part of the Roscommon panel. Just finished the leaving cert and waiting for the results.Spends most of his days under the watchful eye of the his old Uncle, Giller. Spends most days, not looking at the tourist attractions of this beautiful town but in Pure Fitness in Downtown San Diego. Main claim to fame is being the great grandson of the fastest sheep shearer in all of Connacht.

Name:Steven Glynn

Born:Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo

Lives:Hillcrest

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown: Mayo and proud, Steven is a clean-cut lad from the west of Ireland who doesn't smoke, drink, back horses or ride women ! Ballyhaunis (aka Bally-happiness) was home for this 6' 2" adonis before the warmth of San Diego beckoned. Steve, better known as "Bitser" due to abilty to digress from the topical conversation to give you some vital piece of trivia. Did you know that both Stevens parents are photographers and are avid golfers.This was learnt while rooming with Steven during the L.A. Fair June 2001"

Stupid Dublin Nickname:Bitser

Name: Chris Hausvik

Born:New London, Connnecticut

Lives:

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown:I started playing Gaelic when a bunch of my soccer teammates invited me out for a kick around. This is my second year playing and I love it.

Job:Registered Nurse, Military and getting certified in massage

Name: Mark Hegarty

Born:Bishopstown, Co. Cork

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown:moved from NYC in 2007, never going back. "yes we can"

Job:Electrician(available for hire!!)

Year started playing with Setanta:2008

Name: Conor Hughes

Born:Confey, Co. Kildare

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Midfield

Life Lowdown:Two Words: Mary Buckley

Job:Kettle Bell Instructor

Year started playing with Setanta:2009

Name: Mark Ivers

Born:Ardclough, Co. Kildare

Lives:Del Mar

Position:Half Back

Life Lowdown:Moved over to San Dieog in 2008. Am currently doing my MBA along with work. Grew up playing Gaelic football, hurling and rugby.

Job:Business Development

Year started playing with Setanta:2008

Name: Dermot Kehily

Born: Blanchardstown, County Dublin

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Dermot Francis Kehily was nurtured in the Dublin GAA nursery of St Brigids(Famous for their 1988 loss to Skerries Harps minors) but he is more famous for his liking of big arsed birds, cheap domestic beer and surfing. Plagued with knee and back injuries which we all know arent real.

Stupid Dublin Nickname: Frosty

Name: Joe Kilcoyne

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:Mission Beach

Position:

Life Lowdown:Joined up with Setanta because he heard they always had good crack… later found out it was another kind of craic

Job:Mechanical Engineer

Year started playing with Setanta:2009

Name: Joe King

Born:Tuam, County Galway

Lives: Leucadia

Position:Goalkeeper

Life Lowdown:Mad for a bit of black puddin and Denny's gold medal.

Job:Engineer

Year started playing with Setanta:2007

Name: Brian Lee

Born:Los Angeles, California

Lives: Normal Heights

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Of Irish (Cork/Antrim) and Korean descent. Both countries scoring high in the alcohol per capita charts, so I'm in good company with the Setanta lads. Born and raised in LA. Moved to San Diego in '97. Passionate about family, friends, travel, food/wine, music, soccer, gardening (yep, gardening) and now the Gah!

Job: Clinical Research Manager

Name: Barry Maloney

Born:

Lives:Pacific Beach

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Name: Scott McBrayer

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:Clairemont

Position: Midfield

Life Lowdown:Found playing goalkeeper for the local Jamaican soccer team and was whisked off to Los Angeles to play Gaelic Football for Clan na Gael.Scott joined Setanta in 2004 and overcame a bad knee injury while playing soccer to play at midfied, the hardest Gaelic Football position. Is also the unofficial club photographer when not playing himself

Name:Declan McCole

Born:Burtonport, Co. Donegal

Lives:Normal Heights. Previously lived in the same area as most of the team, Pacific Beach (aka Abnormal Depths)

Position:Manager and coach of the Junior C team

Life Lowdown:In what turned out to be a fairytale story, I joined Setanta purely by accident and within 18 months ended up as Club President in the year we went on to win our first national title. Retired from playing two years later due to injury but moved into managing the C team. In my debut season as manager we won our first national Junior C title after the most dramatic gaelic football final of all time. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Currently looking to sell the movie rights of this epic to a Hollywood studio.

Job:Scientist. As my area of research is in Gastroenterology, I'm frequently asked for my professional opinion by members of the squad. The most common question is why their intestines feel dodgy after 10 pints of Guinness and 5 Jagerbombs! Who would have guessed?

Year started playing with Setanta:2002

Name: Ray McCormack

Born: Ballyhaise, County Cavan

Lives: Pacific Beach

Position: Corner Back

Life Lowdown: Database developer by day, stud with the ladies by night. One of the most talented players to emerge from cavan since big Jim Reilly.

Favourite Tractor:Massey 8400 with the SisuDiesel Tier II Engine

Stupid Dublin Nickname: Mundo

Name:Mick McShane

Born:Warrenpoint, County Down

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Grew up in Warrenpoint played for the St. Peter’s club there. I went to St. Colman’s in Newry, before going to college in Liverpool. I came out to SD on a J1er 3 years ago and met a girl..the rest is history…Currently working at Ivy Hotel downtown

Name: Donie Mulligan

Born:Tullamore, Co. Offaly

Lives:Chula Vista

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Played inter-county football with both Offaly and then Limerick before getting lazy, moving to mainland Europe and getting fat. Moved to USA in 2005 and lovin' it. Back playing ball this year (2009) - first year playing since 1997. Good to be back.

Job:Engineering and Programs Manager - Nypro San Diego. (Part of global Nypro Plastics Manufacturing Chain)

Name: Gene Nelson

Born:San Diego, California

Lives:Scripps Ranch

Position:Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Was half drunk when D'Arcy and Geoff convinced me to join Setanta. Luckily, I was relieved to discover that there wasn't much running involved.

Job:Software Engineer

Year started playing with Setanta:2009

Name: Tony O'Boyle

Born: Marino, County Dublin

Lives: Serra Mesa

Position: Junior B Manager

Life Lowdown:Tony was drafted into the Setanta cause on New Years Eve 2003 by Burgers Kehily.IN his first season running the line, Setanta won the North American Junior B title. Back in the day, Tony played an All Ireland minor final for Dublin, but like alot of other Dublin teams, they lost to Kerry. Did a few years as a U.S. Marine and is now a San Diego County Sheriff. Got injured at Nationals in 2007 which caused his retirement from playing.

Name: Ronan O'Donovan

Born: Ballinasloe, County Galway

Lives: UTC

Position:Full Forward

Life Lowdown:Grew up in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim. Arrived in San Diego via Germany, Russia, and Donegal! Currently working as a web developer in the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Name: Phelim O'Connell

Born:Ballinasloe, Co. Galway

Lives: Serra Mesa

Position:Right half-forward

Setanta Lowdown:Working as a Financial Analyst for K2 (sports co. in Carlsbad). Nephew of the late, great Mattie McDonagh, the only Connacht man with 4 All-Ireland Senior football medals. Unfortunately he was an uncle-in-law meaning the talent wasn't transferred in the genes.

Name: Liam O'Neill

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Name: Roddy O'Sullivan

Born: St. Finbarrs Hospital, Cork City

Lives:Pacific Beach

Position: Half Forward

Life Lowdown:Youngest of the eleven O'Sullivans from Inchigeela, Trinity Genetics Graduate, got Ph.D in Vienna and came to SD to work at The Salk Institute.

Job:Genetic Scientist

Year started playing with Setanta:2007

Name: Will Peterson

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Year started playing with Setanta:2009