Mick Mehigan

Michael Mehigan, known as Mick (12 September 1886 to 20 December 1955), was an Irish Gaelic footballer and politician. He played as a left wing-back for the Cork senior team from the 1906 championship and was a regular in the starting fifteen for about a decade, winning one All-Ireland medal and three Munster medals; in 1911 he captained Cork to the All-Ireland title. At club level he won several county championship medals with Lees, having begun with Clonakilty. He came from a Gaelic games family: his younger brother Denis also played for Cork, and his elder brother Paddy played hurling and football for Cork and London before becoming a pioneering Gaelic games journalist. Mehigan was active in Sinn Féin from 1917, was arrested in 1920 and took part in a hunger strike at Wormwood Scrubs, and became chairman of the Cork Rural District Council in 1921. After the Anglo-Irish Treaty he took the pro-Treaty side but did not fight in the Civil War.