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Kieran Stevenson

Irish hurler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6405467 ↗
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Kieran Stevenson (born 1970) is a former hurler from Northern Ireland, who played as a goalkeeper at senior level for the Derry county team.

Stevenson joined the panel during the 1995 championship and subsequently became the first-choice goalkeeper until his retirement after the 2006 Nicky Rackard Cup.

At club level Stevenson is a one-time county club championship medalist with Banagher.

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“Kieran Stevenson” enters the record as irish hurler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kieran, Stevenson and Irish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1995, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kieran, Stevenson and Irish.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kieran Stevenson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.