Dublin’s All-Ireland-winning Shane Carthy has made the move to Meath club Summerhill, in a transfer confirmed on the Leinster GAA website.
Carthy’s move from Naomh Mearnóg in Portmarnock to Summerhill was processed on January 6th, and he will be plying his trade for the 2023 Meath county champions in the coming year.
A highly-rated player with multiple All-Ireland medals across various age groups, Carthy is an intriguing acquisition for the Meath club.
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Dublin’s Shane Carthy moves to Summerhill in Meath
22 September 2013; Dublin’s Shane Carthy lifts the Sam Maguire cup following their victory. GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final, Dublin v Mayo, Croke Park, Dublin. Picture credit: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE
30-year-old Shane Carthy will line out for Summerhill in 2025, after his transfer from Dublin club Naomh Mearnóg was confirmed by Leinster GAA.
Carthy is a five-time All-Ireland winner across three different age groups. He played on the All-Ireland-winning minor team of 2012, scoring 0-3 in the final victory over Meath. Alongside him on that team were the likes of Niall Scully, Cormac Costello, and Eric Lowndes.
Another All-Ireland victory at U21 level in 2014 came after a man-of-the-match performance by Carthy in the Leinster final, though he missed the final after being hospitalised with depression.
The Naomh Mearnóg star has spoken openly about his mental health struggles, saying that he was keen to break the stigma that can surround such issues in the sporting world.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Late Late Show in 2021, Carthy said that he owed Dessie Farrell his life. The current Dublin senior manager was Carthy’s bainisteoir for both the minor campaign of 2012 and the U21 campaign of 2014, and Carthy explained the special role Farrell had played when he fell into serious mental health struggles.
I owe Dessie my life. I confided in him because Dessie had previous with depression. He was also previously a psychiatric nurse so I trusted in him.
I met him in Santry for a cup of coffee. People were having their breakfast, their morning coffee, and I was in a flood of tears.
I was embarrassed. I was in a packed coffee shop, and for 45 of the 50 minutes I was in tears. For the five minutes I did get to speak to Dessie I let him in on what was going on for me for the previous two years.
He promised me that I’d get the help that I so deeply needed. He set me up with an appointment with a psychologist just two days later.
Carthy has returned to playing in recent years, and was again part of the extended panel under Dessie Farrell in 2022, playing in the O’Byrne Cup.
He will now be plying his trade in Meath, having moved to the 2023 county champions.
The addition of an All-Ireland winning Dub is a major coup for Summerhill, who will hope to repeat their 2023 triumph later this year.
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