Jack O'Connor (Gaelic footballer)

Jack O'Connor is an Irish Gaelic football manager from Toorsaleen near Mastergeehy in County Kerry, born on 23 October 1960, and a former player who lined out for his local club Dromid Pearses. A schoolteacher by training, he first made his name coaching vocational and college teams in Cahersiveen, whose sides collected several All-Ireland schools titles, before moving to the inter-county scene. He became Kerry senior manager in the autumn of 2003 and has held the post across three separate terms, leading the county to All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2022 and 2025, with National Football League wins in the same years. Between his Kerry spells he managed the county's minor and under-21 sides and the Kildare seniors, and in March 2007 he published an autobiography titled Keys to the Kingdom.