Michael Gleeson (politician)

Michael Gleeson was born in 1946 in Killarney, County Kerry, and is an Irish former politician and sportsperson. As a Gaelic footballer he played with his local club Spa and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1969 until 1972. He won an All-Ireland Junior Football Championship medal with the Kerry junior team in 1967. With East Kerry he won three Kerry Senior Football Championships, a Munster Senior Club Football Championship and an All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship, and with Spa he won seven East Kerry Senior Football Championship titles and a County Intermediate Football Championship. While studying in Dublin he won a Dublin Under 21 Football Championship with Erins Hope in 1966 and later won a Sigerson Cup with UCD. Away from sport he served as a Killarney town councillor and Kerry County Councillor, and as Mayor of Killarney, retiring from politics in May 2021.