Michael Meehan (Gaelic footballer)

Michael Meehan is a Gaelic footballer from County Galway who played his club football with Caltra and represented the Galway senior football team at inter-county level. He was educated at St Jarlath's College in Tuam, where he captained the side that won the 2002 Hogan Cup, and he later helped NUI Galway win the 2003 Sigerson Cup. For Galway he made his first championship start in 2003, won Connacht senior medals in 2003, 2005 and 2008, and was part of the Under-21 teams that won All-Ireland titles in 2002 and 2005. In 2004 he was named man of the match when Caltra won the All-Ireland Club Championship, scoring six points. After a long struggle with ankle trouble he announced his retirement from inter-county football on 21 March 2014. He is the youngest of a family of footballing brothers and later became a mathematics teacher at his old school.