Séamus O'Malley

Séamus O'Malley, born in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, on 28 December 1903 and died in July 2002, was an Irish Gaelic footballer and Gaelic games administrator whose league and championship career at senior level with the Mayo county team spanned six seasons from 1930 until 1936. The eldest son of Luke and Anne O'Malley, he was educated locally and at University College Galway, where he won a Sigerson Cup medal in 1934. He first played with the Ballinrobe club, later with Castlebar Mitchels and finally with Claremorris. He made his senior debut for Mayo during the 1930-31 league and quickly became a regular in the starting fifteen, and the highlight of his six years of success came in 1936, when he won an All-Ireland medal as captain of the team.