Séamus Mac Gearailt

Séamus Mac Gearailt
Personal information
Irish name	Séamus Mac Gearailt
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Left corner-back
Born	1945 Corca Dhuibhne, County Kerry, Ireland
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Club(s)
Years	Club
	An Ghaeltacht West Kerry
Club titles
Kerry titles	0
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County	Apps (scores)
1963–1974	Kerry	18 (2-07)
Inter-county titles
Munster titles	5
All-Irelands	2
NFL	6
All Stars	0

Séamus Mac Gearailt (born 1945), sometimes referred to as Séamus Fitzgerald, is an Irish retired Gaelic football trainer, coach, selector and former player. His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned twelve seasons from 1963 to 1974.^[1]

Mac Gearailt made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he was selected as the goalkeeper for the Kerry minor team. He enjoyed two championship seasons with the minor team, winning back-to-back All0Ireland medals in 1962 and 1963. Mac Gearailt subsequently joined the Kerry under-21 team, winning an All-Ireland medal in this grade in 1965. By this stage he had also joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1962-63 league. Over the course of the next twelve seasons, Mac Gearailt won back-to-back All-Ireland medals in 1969 and 1970. He also won five Munster medals and six National Football League medals. He played his last game for Kerry in July 1974.

After being chosen on the Munster inter-provincial team for the first time in 1964, Mac Gearailt remained off the team until the twilight of his career. As a member of the starting fifteen in 1971 and 1972 he won one Railway Cup medal.

In retirement from playing, Mac Gearailt became involved in team management and coaching. In 1975 he trained the Kerry minor team to the All-Ireland title. He later served as coach and selector with the Kerry under-21 team, helping the team to an All-Ireland title in 1994. As part of Páidi Ó Sé's management team with the Kerry senior footballers, Mac Gearilt helped the team to the All-Ireland title in 1997.

Honours

Player

Kerry

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2): 1969, 1970
Munster Senior Football Championship (5): 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972
National Football League (6): 1962-63, 1968-69, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74

Munster

Railway Cup (1): 1972

Coach

Kerry

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (1): 1997
Munster Senior Football Championship (5): 1996, 1997, 1998
National Football League (1): 1996-97

References

↑ O'Flynn, Diarmuid (12 December 2012). "'If you met Páidí only once, you never forgot him. He's not one in a million, he's one in many millions'". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 4 December 2016.

Kerry – 1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 S. Burrows 5 Denis O'Sullivan 6 M. Morris 7 Donie O'Sullivan 8 M. O'Connell 9 M. Fleming 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin (c) 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 T. Prendergast 14 D.J. Crowley 15 M. O'Dwyer Subs used P. Moynihan for T. Prendergast S. Mac Gearailt for S. Burrows

Kerry – 1969 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (21st title)

1 J. Culloty (c) 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 S. Mac Gearailt 5 T. Prendergast 6 M. Morris 7 M. Ó Sé 8 M. O'Connell 9 D. J. Crowley 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer Subs (none played): D. O'Sullivan M. Fleming D. O'Donnell J. O'Keeffe D. Crowley Manager J. Lyne

Kerry – 1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (22nd title)

1 J. Culloty 2 S. Murphy 3 P. O'Donoghue 4 D. O'Sullivan (c) 5 T. Prendergast 6 J. O'Keeffe 7 M. Ó Sé 8 M. O'Connell 9 D. J. Crowley 10 B. Lynch 11 P. Griffin 12 É. O'Donoghue 13 M. Gleeson 14 L. Higgins 15 M. O'Dwyer Sub used S. Mac Gearailt Subs not used: P.J. Burns D. Crowley T. O'Donnell P. Finnegan Manager J. Lyne

Kerry – 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up

Subs used in drawn game: D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt; P. Griffin for L. Higgins
Subs used in replay: D. Crowley for S. Mac Gearailt; P. Griffin for M. Gleeson; J. Walsh for B. Lynch

Manager: J. Culloty

Kerry – 1975 All-Ireland Minor Football Champions (8th title)

1 C. Nelligan 2 V. O'Connor 3 M. O'Sullivan 4 M. Colgan 5 J. J. O'Connor 6 M. Spillane 7 G. Casey 8 S. Walsh 9 N. O'Donovan 10 F. Scannell 11 J. Mulvihill 12 R. Bunyan 13 C. O'Connor 11 J. O'Shea 15 P. Sheehan Trainer S. Mac Gearailt

Kerry – 1995 All-Ireland Under 21 Football Champions (7th title)

1 D. Murphy (c) 2 N. Mangan 3 B. McCarthy 4 B. O'Shea 5 K. Burns 6 M. Hassett 7 C. McCarthy 8 D. Ó Sé 9 D. Daly 10 D. O'Dwyer 11 J. Crowley 12 M. Moynihan 13 J. Ferriter 14 L. Hassett 15 D. Ó Cinnéide Subs used K. O'Driscoll C. Drummond J. Brennan W. Kirby Manager P. Ó Sé Coach S. Mac Gearailt

Kerry – 1997 All Ireland Senior Football Champions (31st title)

Sub used: 22 J. Crowley for Billy O'Shea; 19 M. F. Russell for D. Ó Cinnéide; 20 D. Daly for W. Kirby

Sub used: 16 M. Hassett; 17 B. Clarke; 18 S. Burke; 21 P. O'Leary; 22 M. O'Shea; 23 T. Ó Sé

Manager: P. Ó Sé
Selectors: J. O'Connor; B. O'Callaghan; S. Mac Gearailt; T. O'Connor

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