Evan Niland


Evan Niland is an Irish hurler who plays for Galway Senior [Hurling Championship|Galway Senior Championship] club Clarinbridge and at inter-county level with the Galway senior hurling team. He usually lines out as a corner-forward.

Career

Niland first came to hurling prominence as a schoolboy with the Presentation College in Athenry, with whom he won three successive Connacht Colleges Championships. He simultaneously lined out with the Clarinbridge club at juvenile and underage levels and was part of the senior team that lost the 2021 Galway SHC final to St Thomas's. Niland first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Galway minor hurling team that beat Tipperary in the 2015 [All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship#All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship|2015 All-Ireland minor hurling final]. He later won a Leinster U21 Championship. Niland was drafted onto the Galway senior hurling team in 2019.

Honours

;Presentation College, Athenry
;National University of Galway
;Clarinbridge
  • Galway Minor A Hurling Championship: 2015, 2016
  • Galway Under-21 A Hurling Championship: 2018
;Galway

Individual