Peter Ford (Gaelic footballer)

Peter Ford, born on 28 January 1962, is an Irish former sportsman who played Gaelic football with the Sligo club St Mary's and was a member of the senior Mayo county team during the 1980s and 1990s. After his playing days he moved into management and became manager of the Galway and Sligo county teams, leaving the Galway job in August 2007. He has also managed Breaffy and works as a secondary school teacher. Gaelic football is an amateur sport governed by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and many of its players and managers, as in Ford's case, combine it with a career outside sport.