Martin Heavey

Martin Heavey (8 October 1941 to 4 August 2024) was an Irish Gaelic football player, selector and administrator from the Rhode club in County Offaly. At club level he won three Offaly Senior Football Championship medals with Rhode, in 1966, 1967 and 1969. He made his Offaly senior debut in a National Football League game in October 1967, was dropped for two years, returned as a regular in 1970 and won back-to-back All-Ireland Senior Football Championship medals in 1971 and 1972, along with Leinster titles in 1971, 1972 and 1973, before his last appearance in December 1973. He later coached underage players at Rhode for more than twenty years and served as an Offaly senior team selector between 1975 and 1977. He worked at the Rhode Power Station for the ESB, and his brother Bill Heavey also played for Rhode.