Maurice Fitzgerald (Gaelic footballer)

Maurice Fitzgerald (born 1969) is an Irish Gaelic football selector and former player from Cahersiveen in County Kerry. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned fourteen seasons from 1988 to 2001. He was born into a strong football family: his father Ned Fitzgerald won an All-Ireland medal with Kerry in 1955 and captained the side in 1957, his brother-in-law Colm O'Neill is a two-time All-Ireland medal winner with Cork, and his nephew Shane O'Neill is a soccer player with Orlando City SC. He played at Cahersiveen CBS, won a Sigerson Cup medal with University College Cork in 1987 and began a four-decade association with the St Mary's club, later claiming a county intermediate championship medal in 2001. With the divisional side South Kerry he won three successive county senior championship medals from 2004 to 2006. He joined the Kerry minor team at the age of sixteen and later played for the Kerry under-21 team.