Paul Keegan



Paul KeeganPaul Keegan joined Motherwell at the tail end of the January 2007 transfer window. Maurice Malpas obviously liked his players from the Irish league as he was part of a trio joining the club at the same time. Paul along with Trevor Molloy came from St Patricks Athletic for an undisclosed fee, and highly rated full back Danny Murphy came from Cork City on a free.

Within days of arriving in Lanarkshire, Paul made his debut as he was a substitute in the 1-0 defeat at the hands of Rangers at Fir Park. Seemingly he had a lot to offer as he had an excellent pedigree in the game being successful in both MLS in the United States (Where he would be the first Irish man to ply his trade there) and also in the Irish Leagues.

Paul would struggle to make an impact at Fir Park, this probably down to him being in the veteran stages of his career and the demands of the SPL seemed just too much for the 34 year old. As the new management regime of Mark McGhee and Scott Leitch were now appointed in the summer of 2007, it was made pretty clear Paul wasn’t in their plans and he was allowed to leave and leave and he subsequently joined First Division club Partick Thistle.

Keegan made ten first team appearances in claret and amber without netting and he left having failed to set heather on fire in his short spell. After leaving he served Partick Thistle, Dumbarton and Airdrie United. When he arrived in Scotland Paul and his family opened their own Domino’s Pizza franchise which was located in Paisley.

Name:
Paul Keegan
Height:
6′
Weight:
12st
Date of Birth:
30th December 1972
Place of Birth:
Dublin
Position:
Forward
Nationality:
Irish

Football Career:

St Patrick’s Athletic 1991 1992
Boston College 1992 1996
New England Revolution 1996 2000
Bray Wanderers 2000 2002
Bohemians 2002 2004
Longford Town 2004 2006
St Patrick’s Athletic 2006 2007
Motherwell 2007
Partick Thistle 2007 2008
Dumbarton 2008 2009
Airdrie United 2009 2010

Well Career:

Apps Goals
League:
4 (4) 0
Scottish Cup:
0 (2) 0
League Cup:
0 0
Other:
0 0
Total:
4 (6) 0