Owen Sexton

Owen Sexton, born in Kilbrittain, County Cork, in 1975, is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played as a centre-back for the Cork senior team. He first played competitive Gaelic football at Hamilton High School in Bandon and arrived on the inter-county scene at seventeen with the Cork minor team, winning a minor football All-Ireland medal in 1993, before lining out with the under-21 side. He made his senior debut in the 1997 championship and went on to play a key role for over a decade, winning three Munster medals and one National Football League medal, and was an All-Ireland runner-up on two occasions. He won a senior county medal with Carbery in 2004, with a man of the match performance at full-back, and junior B county medals with Kilbrittain.