Kevin Coffey

Kevin Coffey (Bartholomew Kevin Coffey, 1933 to 6 December 1981) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at club level with Clanna Gael in Dublin and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team. He first came to Gaelic football prominence as a student at Good Counsel College in New Ross, as part of a Leinster Junior Colleges Championship title-winning team in the early fifties. His first appearance with the Kerry senior football team was in a London tournament game in 1956, and he made his competitive debut two years later and won the first of seven successive Munster Championship titles that year. He won his first All-Ireland Championship title at centre-back in 1959 and later came on as a substitute to claim a second winners' medal.