Playing Career
Geraghty achieved numerous honours during his playing career with the Meath football team. He received GAA All Stars Awards in 1994 and 1999. He won three Leinster Senior Football Championship medals with Meath in 1996, 1999 and 2001. He won his first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1996, and his second in 1999, when he captained the team. He also won a minor All Ireland in 1990 and an Under 21 All Ireland in 1993.
Geraghty represented his country against Australia in the International Rules Series in 1999, 2000 and 2006.
Geraghty has also won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1990 and a All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 1993. He has been named as the Meath Player of the Year on two occasions in 1999 and more recently in 2006. Geraghty won the Martin Donnelly Cup on four occasions with Leinster.
At club level, Graham won the Meath Senior Football Championship with Seneschalstown in 1994. He has also won the Meath Under-21 Championship with Seneschalstown in 1992.
Although his greatest achievements have come in football, he is a versatile athlete, with various honors in the fields of athletics, soccer (having traveled to London for trials with British club Arsenal F.C. as a teenager, and later playing a trial friendly match for Bohemians, he also played for Drogheda United reserves in the 1996-97 League of Ireland season), and rugby (playing for much of his adult life with Irish side Buccaneers).
In late 2003, he published his autobiography, titled Misunderstood, which documents his childhood, adolescence, and sporting career up until the early years of the 21st century.
In 2007, Geraghty helped Meath back to the top and scored a magnificent goal against Tyrone to help earn the team a place in the semifinal.
On 23 July 2008, Geraghty retired following Meath's exit from the 2008 Championship at the hands of Limerick.
On 20 May 2011, just three days after his 38th birthday, Geraghty returned to the Meath panel after a three-year absence. He came on as a substitute in Meath's first game of the Championship against Kildare at Croke Park, scoring a goal which was wrongly disallowed as a square ball. In 2012, Geraghty announced his second retirement from inter-county football and became a selector.
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