Alan Mangan (born June 1979)^[1] is a dual player of Gaelic games, a hurling coach, manager, selector and former Gaelic footballer. He played football and hurling for Westmeath.

Mangan first played hurling for Castletown Geoghegan as a 16-year-old, at which age he played as a goalkeeper in a Westmeath Senior Hurling Championship final.^[1] He won three Westmeath SHC medals while playing with his club, the first in 2004, adding another in 2013.^[1]

Mangan also played football for the St Malachy's club.^[1]

Mangan played senior inter-county hurling for Westmeath for two years: 1999 and 2000.^[1]

His inter-county football debut for Westmeath, limited to substitute appearances, was as part of the team that won the 1999 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship and retained the Leinster Under-21 Football Championship the following year, under the management of Luke Dempsey.^[1] Then Mangan featured for the county junior team, twice scoring five points from play, with both games against Offaly.^[1] Westmeath's junior team manager Ned Moore contacted Dempsey (who had by then been promoted to the position of senior team manager) and convinced him to call Mangan into his panel.^[1] Mangan arrived onto the senior panel the following year.^[1] Mangan's first senior game for Westmeath was against All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title holder Galway at Cusack Park.^[1] He was put into the team in place of established corner-forward Ger Heavin and assigned to mark Tomás Mannion.^[1]

Dempsey used Mangan as a substitute against Meath in a draw and then a replay in the 2003 championship before starting him against Monaghan, in what would be Dempsey's last game as manager.^[1]

Páidí Ó Sé succeeded Dempsey as manager.^[1] Ó Sé left Mangan out for the first 2004 O'Byrne Cup but started him in the second game of the competition, against Kildare.^[1] Mangan scored three points against Kildare.^[1] He started every game for Westmeath after that (O'Byrne, league and championship) until he injured his knee in 2009.^[1]

Mangan was one of those who won the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final.^[2][3] Ó Sé made a memorable comparison between Mangan and a loaf of bread after Darren Rooney of Laois knocked him over the sideline during the drawn game between the teams.^[1] Mangan then scored four points from play in Westmeath's next game.^[1]

Mangan was a selector when Michael Ryan managed the Westmeath hurlers.^[1]

He ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the Labour Party in the Longford–Westmeath constituency at the 2020 Irish general election, with the intention of replacing the retiring Willie Penrose.^[4][5] Mangan was coaxed into running, as Penrose was a family friend, though Mangan's mother advised him against.^[1] He cancelled a holiday that he had paid for in New York when the election was suddenly called.^[1] Due to his involvement in that election he also refused various coaching and management offers that he received in early 2020.^[1]

Mangan then joined the Westmeath senior hurlers in a coaching capacity later in 2020.^[6] As of 2022, he was managing the Castletown Geoghegan hurlers.^[1]

Mangan is married to Corinne and is a father of four.^[1] He is from the village of Castletown Geoghegan.^[5] He inherited his nickname ("Budda") from his father and is known throughout Westmeath by it.^[1] Only Dessie Dolan and the Westmeath hurling manager Michael Ryan ever refer to him as "Alan".^[1]