Eamonn Coleman

Eamonn Coleman was a Gaelic football player and manager from Ballymaguigan in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, who died on 11 June 2007. As a young player he won the Derry Senior Football Championship with Ballymaguigan as a boy of fourteen, and for Derry he took Ulster and All-Ireland minor honours in 1965, an All-Ireland Under-21 title in 1968, and the Dr McKenna Cup and Ulster Senior Football Championship in 1970. He later played for Ballinderry and, while working in Westmeath, for Athlone. As a manager he is remembered for guiding Derry to the 1993 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the county's first, after winning the National Football League in 1992. He managed Derry in two separate periods, with a second National League title in 2000, and also managed Armagh, Longford and Cavan. He was named Ulster GAA Writers Personality of the Year in 1993 and 2001.