Liam Higgins (Irish footballer)

Liam Higgins (1945 to 2006) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played with his local club Lispole and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1969 until 1973. After retiring from playing he managed Lispole and West Kerry, and he managed the Kerry junior team to Munster and All-Ireland championships in 1983. He also trained Dingle CBS to two All-Ireland championships, in 1996 and 2001, and during his school days there he trained some of the biggest names in Gaelic football, including Darragh, Tomás and Marc Ó Sé, Dara Ó Cinnéide, Tommy Griffin and Diarmuid Murphy. He taught Business Studies and Accounting at Dingle CBS and was a brother of the politician Joe Higgins, a former Socialist Party TD and member of the European Parliament.