| Stephen O'Brien | |
| Irish: | Stiofáin Ó Bríain |
| Occupation: | Chemical Engineer |
| Birth Date: | 27 February 1991 |
| Birth Place: | Kenmare, Ireland |
| Height: | 1.820NaN0 |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Code: | Football |
| County: | Kerry |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | Kenmare Shamrocks |
| Clyears: | 2009 – Present |
| Clposition: | Centre forward |
| Colleges: | UCC |
| Sig: | 1 |
| Counties: | Kerry |
| Icyears: | 2014 – Present |
| Icposition: | Right half forward |
| Icapps(Points): | 42 (6-48) |
| Icprovince: | 8 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nfl: | 4 |
Stephen O'Brien (born 27 February 1991) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for the Kenmare Shamrocks club and at senior level for the Kerry county team since 2014.[1]
He joined the county's under-21 team in 2011. Kerry sustained a 22-point loss to Cork in the Munster final. He was still underage in 2012 and for the second year in a row he was on the losing side in a Munster final to Cork after extra time.
He made his debut for Kerry in the 2014 Munster Senior Football Championship semi-final against Clare and scored two points. He lined out in a first Munster Senior Football Championship when they faced Cork, he scored a point in a 0-24 to 0-12 win and a first Munster title. He missed out on Kerry's win over Galway in the All-Ireland quarter-final. He was back in the starting line up for the semi-final with Mayo scoring a point in a 1-16 each draw. An injury while out racing on his quad caused him to miss the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final replay win over Mayo. However, he started the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final at right half forward.[2]
Retirements brought new opportunities for O'Brien in 2019. He scored Kerry's first goal against Dublin in five games during a 2019 National Football League fixture in Tralee. In the 56th minute of the 2019 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final against Tyrone, O'Brien scored his fifth championship goal after intercepting a pass from Kieran McGeary, distributing the ball and running the length of the field.[3]