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Sport | Gaelic football | ||
Position | Forward | ||
Born | Dunkeerin, County Leitrim, Ireland | ||
Occupation | P. E. teacher | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Dunkeerin Kilcock | |||
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2002- | Leitrim | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
Connacht titles | 2 |
Michael Foley is a Gaelic footballer from County Leitrim, Ireland, and was a panel member of the Leitrim county team from 2002 onwards.[ citation needed ] He has played for Leitrim at all levels, winning a Connacht Minor Football Championship in 1998 and a Connacht Junior Football Championship in 2004. [1]
He is a former member of the Dunkeerin club, before he transferred to Kilcock in Kildare. [2]
He is known as an "ace freetaker" with his county, he holds the ball like it’s a child. [3]
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