Barry O'Shea

Barry O'Shea is a Gaelic footballer from Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, who played mostly at full back for the Kerry county team and for his club, Kerins O'Rahilly's of Tralee. He was full back on the Kerins O'Rahilly's side that won the 2002 Kerry Senior Football Championship, the club's first since 1957. At St Brendan's College in Killarney he won a Corn Uí Mhuirí title in 1992 and later a Hogan Cup, and at the Institute of Technology, Tralee he helped the college win the Sigerson Cup in 1997 and 1998. For Kerry he won an All-Ireland minor medal in 1994 and an All-Ireland Under 21 medal in 1995. At senior level he played the full game when Kerry beat Mayo in the 1997 All-Ireland final. He was made Kerry captain in 2002, and his last game for the county came that spring, when he was only 27.