John Hagerty is a Gaelic football manager and former player who currently manages the Wexford county football team. He previously played for Wexford and Killanerin, as well as Leinster and UCD. He was a full-forward during his playing career.
He made 105 appearances for Wexford and his inter-county career went from 1995 up until 2006, scoring 21–125 in all that time.[1] Wexford went from Division 4 to Division 1 National Football League during his career and they got to the Division 1 final back in 2005.[2]
He played for Leinster and won a Railway Cup.[1] He played for UCD and won a Sigerson Cup.[1] He won six Wexford Senior Football Championship titles when he was playing and one Intermediate Football Championship title.[1]
After his retirement, he went on to become a manager.[1] He won Senior Football Championships with Kilanerin as a player-manager and Shelmaliers.[1] He was appointed as Wexford manager in September 2022, following the retirement of Shane Roche.[3] [4] [5] He continued to be Shelmaliers boss for the Senior Football Championship after his name was revealed for the Wexford post.[6]
He is originally from Kilanerin and lives in Wexford town.[1] Outside of football, Hegarty is the deputy principal in the Wexford CBS[7] and was a Fine Gael member of Wexford County Council.[8] He was the deputy Mayor of Wexford from 2021 to 2022.[9]