Mick Curley

Michael Mick Curley is a former Gaelic football referee from County Galway, born in 1953 or 1954. His refereeing career peaked in the 1990s, when he took charge of the 1999 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, the only final between 1998 and 2001 that did not involve his native Galway. He also refereed Leinster, Munster and Ulster finals and three Connacht finals, and he officiated the International Rules Series in 1998 and 1999. After a 1999 league game between Cavan and Wexford at Breffni Park the Wexford manager Jo Jo Barrett punched him and received a two-year ban. Curley stopped refereeing in 2005 because knee cartilage trouble hampered his fitness. He later chaired the National Referees Committee, worked as a Sports Co-ordinator with the County Sports Partnership and managed the Annaghdown minor football team. Away from the field he is a native of Glinsk who served in the Garda Siochana from 1973 and retired as a superintendent at Salthill in 2006.