Maurice Sheridan

Maurice Sheridan, born in 1974, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career at senior level with the Mayo county team lasted nine seasons, from 1995 until 2003. He first played for the Mayo under-21 side, winning back-to-back Connacht medals in that grade, and made his senior debut during the 1995 championship. He was a regular in the starting fifteen for much of the next decade, winning three Connacht medals and one National Football League medal, and was twice an All-Ireland runner-up. At club level he moved from Balla to Salthill-Knocknacarra, with whom he won the 2006 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship. As a manager he took NUI Galway to the 2018 Sigerson Cup final and in January 2021 became manager of the Mayo under-20 team.