Enda Colleran

Enda Colleran (1942 to 2004) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager from Moylough in County Galway who played for the Mountbellew-Moylough club and at senior level for the Galway county team. He won an All-Ireland Minor Championship medal with Galway and a Hogan Cup medal with St Jarlath's College in 1960, made his Galway senior debut in 1961 and went on to play in four successive All-Ireland senior finals between 1963 and 1966, winning the last three, against Kerry (twice) and Meath. He also won two Sigerson Cup medals with University College Galway and became only the fourth Connacht man to captain his province to Railway Cup success, when Connacht beat Ulster in the 1967 final. After a brief spell as a rugby union player with Corinthians he managed the Galway senior team, winning a Connacht Championship in 1976, and worked as an analyst on The Sunday Game. He was named on the Team of the Century and the Team of the Millennium, worked as a secondary school teacher at St Enda's College in Salthill and died suddenly at his home in Barna on 8 April 2004.