Mick Goold

Mick Goold, whose given name was Michael and whose Irish name was Micheal de Gul, was an Irish Gaelic footballer born in 1930 at Kilnamartyra in County Cork, who died in Cork on 25 November 2005 at the age of 75. He worked as a veterinary surgeon and played at right corner-back. At club level he played with Macroom, whom he captained to the Cork Senior Football Championship in 1958 before winning a second county title in 1962, and he also lined out with University College Cork and University College Dublin, winning a Sigerson Cup title with the latter in 1954. He had earlier won a Harty Cup medal with St Colman's College in Fermoy in 1948. For Cork he played minor football in 1948 and junior football in 1950 before being drafted onto the senior team, winning National Football League titles in 1952 and 1956 and Munster Senior Football Championship medals in 1952, 1956 and 1957. Cork lost the All-Ireland finals of 1956 and 1957 to Galway and Louth, and his performances also earned him a place on the Munster team in the Railway Cup.