Liam O'Neill (Gaelic footballer)

Liam O'Neill
Personal information
Irish name	Liam Ó Néill
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Right wing-back
Born	1947 Ballinasloe, County Galway
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
1960s-1970s	St. Grellan's
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1960s-1970s	Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	6
All-Irelands	0
NFL	0
All Stars	1

Liam O'Neill (born 1947) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a right wing-back for the Galway senior team.

O'Neill joined the team during the late 1960s and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for almost a decade. During that time he won six Connacht medals and one All-Star award.^[1] He is a member of a unique set of Galway players who lost three All-Ireland finals in four years

O'Neill enjoyed a lengthy club career with St. Grellan's.

He went on to manage the Mayo County Football team in later years and his son Kevin played inter-county football for Mayo.

References

↑ "Galway GAA profile". Hogan Stand website. Retrieved 15 April 2012.

Galway Football Squads

Galway – 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 P. J. Smyth 2 B. Colleran 3 J. Cosgrove 4 N. Colleran 5 L. O'Neill 6 T. J. Gilmore 7 C. McDonagh 8 L. Sammon (c) 9 W. Joyce 10 F. Burke 11 J. Duggan 12 M. Rooney 13 E. Farrell 14 F. Canavan 15 S. Leydon Subs used 19 T. Divilly for M. Rooney 17 M. Feerick for F. Burke Subs not used 16 G. Mitchell 18 J. McLoughlin 20 G. King 21 M. Byrne 22 M. Keane

Galway – 1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 G. Mitchell 2 J. Waldron 3 J. Cosgrove 4 B. Colleran 5 L. O'Neill 6 T. J. Gilmore 7 J. Hughes 8 W. Joyce 9 J. Duggan 10 M. Burke 11 L. Sammon (c) 12 M. Rooney 13 J. Coughlan 14 T. Naughton 15 M. Hughes Subs used F. Canavan for J. Coughlan C. McDonagh for M. Burke

Galway – 1974 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 G. Mitchell (c) 2 J. Waldron 3 J. Cosgrove 4 B. Colleran 5 L. O'Neill 6 T. J. Gilmore 7 J. Hughes 8 W. Joyce 9 M. Rooney 10 T. Naughton 11 J. Duggan 12 P. Sands 13 C. McDonagh 14 L. Sammon 15 J. Tobin Subs used J. Burke for C. McDonagh

Awards

1973 All Star Gaelic Football Team

1 B. Morgan 2 F. Cogan 3 M. Ryan 4 B. Murphy 5 L. O'Neill 6 T. J. Gilmore 7 K. J. O'Sullivan 8 J. O'Keeffe 9 D. Long 10 J. Cooney 11 K. Kilmurray 12 L. Sammon 13 J. Barry-Murphy 14 R. Cummins 15 A. McGurk

Mayo senior football team – managers

J. Carey (1975–?) L. O'Neill (1983–87) J. O'Mahony (1987–91) P. Ford (1991–92) J. O'Shea (1992–94) A. Egan (1994–95) J. Maughan (1995–99) P. Holmes (1999–02) J. Maughan (2002–05) M. Moran (2005–06) J. O'Mahony (2006–10) J. Horan (2010–14) N. Connelly and P. Holmes (2014–2015) S. Rochford (2015–present)

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