James O'Shea

James O'Shea is a former Gaelic footballer from County Kerry who rose through the Kerry underage grades in the 1990s and later played for Cork. At club level he lined out for St. Michael's/Foilmore, helping them to the South Kerry title in 2007 and 2008 and to county and Munster intermediate championships in 2008 followed by an All-Ireland in 2009, and he also played for Bishopstown in Cork. For Kerry he won an All-Ireland Vocational Schools title in 1993 and a Munster and All-Ireland minor title in 1994, then three Munster under-21 titles in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and an All-Ireland under-21 medal in 1996. He played in National Football League games for the Kerry seniors in the mid and late 1990s, and after settling in Cork he joined the county panel and won a Munster Senior Football Championship medal as a substitute in 2002.