Michael McGeehin

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Michael McGeehin
Personal information
Sport Gaelic football
Born1961/62
OccupationCoach
Club management
YearsClub
c. 1995
c. 2001
c. 2004
c. 2006
c. 2008–2009
c. 2012
c. 2015–2016
c. 2015–2016
c. 2015–2016		Convoy
Glenswilly
Seán MacCumhaill's
Éire Óg
St Eunan's
St Eunan's
Clonmel Commercials
Cratloe
Castlebar Mitchels
Inter-county management
YearsTeam
1992
1992
2008
200?–20??
2012
201?–2015
2016–201?
2019–		 Clare
Mayo
Limerick
Donegal
Limerick
Tipperary
Laois
Tipperary

Michael McGeehin (born 1961/62) [1] is a Gaelic football trainer currently attached as head coach [2] to Tipperary. He has previously worked with the Clare, Mayo, Fermanagh, Donegal, Limerick and Laois county teams (as well as numerous clubs), and the association football teams Fanad United and Finn Harps.

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Among the honours he has helped the counties collect are a Munster Senior Football Championship, a Connacht Senior Football Championship, an All-Ireland B Championship and two National Football League Division 4 titles; with clubs he has won three Donegal Senior Football Championships and one Clare Senior Football Championship and reached the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.

From Letterkenny, McGeehin's home [GAA] club is St Eunan's. [1] [2] [3] He works regularly with Charlie McGeever, who has described him as "my buddy since '82… We are like minded". [4]

Career

McGeehin was part of a group of seven (the others being Pauric Gallagher, Jimmy Kennedy, Michael McBrearty, Charlie McGeever, Donnacha Mac Niallais and Seamus Meehan) who would travel back and forth from Thomond College of Education, Limerick, to Donegal for games and training sessions in the early 1980s, with Gallagher as the driver. [4] McGeehin is director of Coaching Ireland. [2] He is based at UL. [1] [5]

McGeehin started his involvement coaching inter-county teams in 1992, juggling Clare and Mayo as both won their respective provincial championships. [1] [5]

He led Convoy to the 1995 Donegal Junior Football Championship. [1] He coached the Donegal under-15, under-16 and minor teams around this time. [1]

He was involved with the Fanad United team that won the 1996 FAI Intermediate Cup. [1] He then spent two seasons with Finn Harps, working alongside McGeever and bringing the club as far as the 1999 FAI Cup Final. [1] [4]

McGeehin was part of John Maughan's team when Fermanagh won an All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship. [1]

He coached Glenswilly to a Junior League title in 2001. [1] He was involved with Seán MacCumhaill's when they reached the final of the 2004 Donegal Senior Football Championship. [1]

With Éire Óg of Ennis, McGeehin won the 2006 Clare Senior Football Championship. [1]

He worked under Mickey Ned O'Sullivan as Limerick manager and, later, under Maurice Horan. [6] [5] [3]

He led St Eunan's to the 2008 and 2009 Donegal Senior Football Championships. [1] This resulted in him becoming involved with the Donegal senior team during John Joe Doherty's time as manager. [2] He briefly spent time with Limerick in 2012, as they won the National Football League Division 4 title. [1] He then returned to St Eunan's to oversee their winning of the 2012 Donegal Senior Football Championship. [1] [3]

He worked with Tipperary until late-2015 under the management of Peter Creedon. [1] He also led the Tipperary team to the final of the 2015 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship. [1] He then spent a year away from inter-county coaching, though received numerous offers in that time. [1] Meanwhile, on his brief spell away from inter-county, McGeehin reached the semi-finals of the 2015–16 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship with Clonmel Commercials and worked with the Cratloe and Castlebar Mitchels clubs. [1] He worked with McGeever while at Clonmel Commercials. [4] In 2016, he joined Laois when Creedon became manager of the county. [1] In 2019, McGeehin was reappointed to Tipperary (again alongside McGeever) when David Power was appointed manager following the resignation of Liam Kearns. [2] [4]

Honours

Clare
Mayo
Convoy
Fanad United
Finn Harps
Fermanagh
Glenswilly
Seán MacCumhaill's
Éire Óg
St Eunan's
Donegal
Limerick
Tipperary
Clonmel Commercials

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Ferry, Ryan. "Michael McGeehin looking forward to life with Laois". Donegal News . 30 September 2016, p. 74.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 McNulty, Chris (25 September 2019). "Donegal men named on Tipperary backroom team" . Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "McGeehin joins set-up at Limerick". The Irish Times . 29 November 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 McNulty, Chris (3 May 2020). "Charlie McGeever and a tale of Cup finals, World Cup winners — and ones that got away" . Retrieved 3 May 2020. 'Pauric, God have mercy on him, was the driver', McGeever remembers.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Brophy, Shane (28 May 2014). "McGeehin happy with Tipp development". The Nenagh Guardian . Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Maguire, Stephen (29 November 2012). "Well-known Donegal coach appointed to Limerick backroom staff". Donegal Daily. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
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