Paudie Sheehy

Paudie Sheehy (1932 to 1967) was an Irish amateur sportsman and business executive from Tralee, County Kerry, and a son of the footballer and republican John Joe Sheehy. He played Gaelic football with the John Mitchels club and for the Kerry county team through the 1950s and into 1962, and he captained Kerry on two occasions. With Kerry he won three All-Ireland senior titles, in 1955, 1959 and 1962, along with eight Munster titles and one National League. With John Mitchels he won six Kerry senior football championships, and at University College Cork he won two Sigerson Cup titles. A chartered accountant, he became a senior executive with the state-owned Irish Sugar and its affiliates Erin Foods and Heinz-Erin Foods, serving as secretary of the Heinz-Erin board. He died unexpectedly on 5 August 1967 at his parents' home in Tralee, and his funeral was one of the largest seen in the town since Independence.