Fachtna Collins

Fachtna Collins, born in 1973, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played at club level with Ilen Rovers and the Carbery divisional side, and was also a member of the Cork senior football team. He first played Gaelic football at juvenile and underage levels with Ilen Rovers and at school with St. Fachtna's De La Salle College in Skibbereen, where he won consecutive Corn Uí Mhuirí titles and a Hogan Cup medal in 1991. At University College Dublin he captained the senior team to the Sigerson Cup in 1996. With Cork he won All-Ireland honours at minor level in 1991, junior level in 1993 and under-21 level in 1994, was called up to the senior team in 1996, and won National League and Munster Championship titles in 1999, the year Cork lost the All-Ireland final to Meath. At midfield for Ilen Rovers he won the inaugural All-Ireland Intermediate Club Football Championship in 2004.