| Darren Browne | |
| Irish: | Darrin de Brún |
| Birth Date: | 24 October 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland |
| Feet: | 6 |
| Inches: | 0 |
| Sport: | Hurling |
| Code: | Hurling |
| County: | Cork |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Kanturk Duhallow |
| Clyears: | 2014-present 2015-2017 |
| Clapps(Points): | 4 (0-00) 10 (0-00) |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Colleges: | Mary Immaculate College |
| Fitz: | 0 |
| Counties: | Cork |
| Icyears: | 2018-present |
| Icposition: | Left wing-back |
| Icapps(Points): | 1 (0-00) |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 0 |
| Nhl: | 0 |
| Allstars: | 0Dangleberries 4 |
| Clupdate: | 15:44, 6 July 2019 |
| Icupdate: | 11:19, 15 July 2019 |
Darren Browne (born 10 October 1996) is an Irish hurler who plays for Cork Senior Championship club Kanturk and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team.[1] He usually lines out as a left wing-back.
Browne joined the Kanturk club at a young age and played in all grades of hurling and Gaelic football at juvenile and underage levels before joining the club's top adult teams as a dual player.
On 7 October 2017, Browne was at centre-back when Kanturk defeated Mallow by 0–17 to 1–12 to win the Premier Intermediate Championship title.[2] Kanturk completed the double on 29 October, with Browne lining out at full-back in the 0–14 to 0–13 defeat of Mitchelstown to win the Intermediate Football Championship.[3] He scored a point from left corner-back when Kanturk defeated Kilmaley by 1–23 to 0–25 to win the Munster Championship.[4] Browne won an All-Ireland Championship medal from centre-back on 4 February 2018, after Kanturk's 1–18 to 1–17 defeat of St Patrick's Ballyragget in the final at Croke Park.[5]
Browne first played for Cork as a member of the minor team on 9 April 2014. He was at left wing-back for Cork's 5–26 to 0–09 defeat of Kerry in the Munster Championship.[6]
On 17 June 2015, Browne made his first appearance for the Cork under-21 team in a 1–21 to 1–11 defeat by Waterford in the Munster Championship.[7]
Browne was appointed captain of the Cork under-21 hurling team for the 2017 Munster Championship. On 26 July, he captained the team to a 0–16 to 0-11 Munster Championship final defeat by Clare.[8] Browne was later nominated for a position on the Team of the Year.[9]
Browne made his first appearance for the Cork senior hurling team on 10 January 2016 when he came on as a substitute in Cork's 1–20 to 0–18 defeat of Kerry in the Munster League.[10] He was later cut from the panel before the National Hurling League.[11]
| Team | Year | Cork PIHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Kanturk | 2014 | 4 | 0-00 | — | — | 4 | 0-00 | |||
| 2015 | 5 | 0-00 | — | — | 5 | 0-00 | ||||
| 2016 | 3 | 0-00 | — | — | 3 | 0-00 | ||||
| 2017 | 5 | 0-02 | 3 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-00 | 11 | 0-02 | ||
| Total | 17 | 0-02 | 3 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-00 | 23 | 0-02 | ||
| Year | Cork SHC | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
| Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| 2018 | 3 | 0-00 | — | — | 3 | 0-00 | ||||
| 2019 | 1 | 0-00 | — | — | 1 | 0-00 | ||||
| Total | 4 | 0-00 | — | — | 4 | 0-00 | ||||
| Career total | 21 | 0-02 | 3 | 0-01 | 3 | 0-00 | 27 | 0-02 | ||
| Team | Year | Cork SHC | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Score | |||
| Duhallow | 2015 | 3 | 0-00 | |
| 2016 | 3 | 0-00 | ||
| 2017 | 4 | 0-00 | ||
| Career total | 10 | 0-00 | ||
| Team | Year | National League | Munster | All-Ireland | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | Apps | Score | |||
| Cork | 2018 | Division 1A | 4 | 0-01 | 0 | 0-00 | — | 4 | 0-01 | ||
| 2019 | 3 | 0-00 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 4 | 0-00 | |||
| Career total | 7 | 0-01 | 0 | 0-00 | 1 | 0-00 | 8 | 0-01 | |||