Mikey Sheehy
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Mikey Sheehy (born July 28, 1954) is an All-Ireland winning Gaelic footballer from County Kerry in Ireland.
Born in Tralee, Mikey Sheehy played for the Kerry County football team in the late 1970s and 1980s and was considered to be an extraordinary athlete, who could have played a variety of sports with success. He concentrated on Gaelic football and was well rewarded with his choice. He is one of five Kerry footballers to share the record of eight All-Ireland senior football medals in 1975, 1978-1981 and 1984-1986. He was also on the teams defeated in the finals of 1976 and 1982. His main position was at full-forward, until the emergence of Eoin Liston in 1977. Sheehy was also the recipient of seven GAA All Stars Awards. He won six National Football League medals, Railway Cup medals with the Munster team, five Kerry Senior Football Championship medals with his club, Austin Stacks, and an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship medal in 1977. Earlier in his career he had won two All-Ireland Under-21 Championship medals with Kerry, in 1973 and 1975.
Sheehy was named right corner forward on the GAA Gaelic Football Team of the Millennium.
| Preceded by: Pat Spillane (Kerry) |
Texaco Footballer of the Year 1979 |
Succeeded by: Jack O'Shea (Kerry) |
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1 Dan O'Keefe | 2 Seán Flanagan | 3 Joe Keohane | 4 Enda Colleran | 5 Martin O'Connell | 6 J.J. O'Reilly | 7 Seán Murphy | 8 Mick O'Connell | 9 Tommy Murphy | 10 Pat Spillane | 11 Seán Purcell | 12 Seán O'Neill | 13 Kevin Heffernan | 14 Tommy Langan | 15 Mikey Sheehy |
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