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Kavan Keenan: GAA Footballer Admits Injuring Woman in Hit-and-Run

Kavan Keenan pleaded guilty to causing grievous injury in a hit-and-run, driving without insurance, and failing to report the accident, with sentencing set for February 6.

  • On Monday, December 15, 2025, Kavan Keenan was re‑arraigned at Antrim Crown Court and admitted causing serious injury, changing pleas on four of six charges.
  • A Peugeot Partner van struck a pedestrian on Glenravel Road in Martinstown just before 9pm on Saturday 26 October 2024, and the allegedly stolen van was later recovered with frontal damage.
  • The defendant's sporting profile includes playing for the Antrim county team and All Saints Gaelic Athletic Club; last year, Kavan Keenan, 26 from Millfield in Ballymena, was named in the All‑Ireland Tailteann Cup Team of the year.
  • A plea and sentencing hearing is listed for 6 February, Judge Peter Irvine confirmed; Miss Suzanne Gallagher asked for immediate disqualification, but the judge declined and Keenan remains on continuing bail.
  • The prosecution plans to submit victim and medical reports, which Miss Suzanne Gallagher said have been obtained for parallel civil proceedings and could assist in plea and sentence.
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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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