Hughie O'Reilly

Hughie O'Reilly was a Gaelic footballer and later a manager from Cootehill in County Cavan, remembered as the only man involved in all of Cavan's Senior All-Ireland Championship victories. As a player he won All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals in 1933 and captained Cavan to victory in the 1935 final, and he had earlier been part of the Cavan junior team that won the All-Ireland title in 1927. As manager of the Cavan county team he completed a record of three All-Ireland senior titles in 1947, 1948 and 1952, together with National Football League titles in 1948 and 1950. He was a disciplinarian who stressed the basic skills of catching, kicking and passing the ball, and he left a list of twenty-eight coaching maxims, from playing your own area to shooting for points so that goals will follow, many of which are still quoted. The pitch of his club, Cootehill Celtic GAA, is named after him.