Malachi O'Brien

Malachi O'Brien (12 June 1867 to 2 August 1953) was an Irish Gaelic footballer whose championship career with the Limerick senior team lasted three seasons, from 1887 until 1889. Raised in Ballinvreena, County Limerick, he left school at fourteen to work at Cannock's department store in Limerick, later spent a short time with Clerys in Dublin and emigrated to the United States, where he stayed until 1929 before returning to Ballinvreena. He first played competitively with the Commercials club, winning three successive county senior championship medals between 1887 and 1889, and he made his inter-county debut in the inaugural 1887 championship, when the Commercials represented Limerick. That year he won his only All-Ireland medal as Limerick defeated Louth in the final.