Cahir Healy (dual player)

Cahir Healy, born on 27 December 1986, is an Irish dual player who plays both hurling and Gaelic football for his local club Portlaoise and has represented Laois at inter-county level in both codes, though he has in recent years concentrated on hurling. Nicknamed the music man for his singing and the Totti of Laois, he usually lines out in defence. His underage career included the 2003 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship with Laois, the 2004 Leinster Minor Football Championship and two Leinster Under-21 Football Championships in 2006 and 2007, and in 2007 he was part of the Laois hurlers who won Division 2 of the National Hurling League. With Portlaoise he has collected a long list of county titles, including a Laois Senior Hurling Championship in 2004 and a dozen Laois Senior Football Championships, as well as two Leinster club football titles. He left the Laois footballers in 2013 for the hurlers, returned to the football panel in 2019 and suffered a cruciate ligament injury that year, and he works as a primary school teacher in south west London.