Kieran McGeeney meets his match in bride Maura

All-Ireland winner Kieran McGeeney met his Kerry match yesterday in stunning bride Maura O’Rahilly.

The ex-Kildare football manager, who claimed a Celtic Cross with his native Armagh in 2002, was happy to play second fiddle in the Kingdom yesterday as he married the Ballymacelligott girl in her local Clogher Church.

A number of leading GAA figures from Kildare, Armagh, and Kerry celebrated with the happy couple last night at the Malton Hotel in Killarney, including former EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy, who was part of McGeeney’s Kildare U21 backroom team last season.

Many of McGeeney’s Armagh colleagues from the historic 2002 All-Ireland winning team were also present, including Oisín McConville, Diarmuid Marsden, Tony McEntee, and Steven McDonnell.

They were also joined by the likes of Kildare’s Johnny Doyle, Kerry’s Darragh Ó Sé, and Cork dual ace Eoin Cadogan, who accompanied his girlfriend, strength and conditioning coach Julie Davis.

McGeeney, 42, has returned to Armagh for the coming GAA season as assistant to Paul Grimley.

Ms O’Rahilly, a physiotherapist based in Dublin, hails from a wellknown GAA family in Ballymac. Her brother, Ruairí, won an All-Ireland medal with Kerry in 1997.

Her sisters Oonagh and Sinéad served as her bridesmaids alongside Eimear Fitzgerald.

McGeeney’s best man was another Orchard county legend, Paul McGrane, while his groomsmen were Mark Fagan and Gerard Kelly.