Seán Boylan

Seán Boylan, born on 12 December 1949, is an Irish former Gaelic football manager from Dunboyne in County Meath. He is best known for twenty-three years in charge of the Meath senior football team, a post he left on 31 August 2005, and for a time that was an inter-county managerial record with a single team until Brian Cody of Kilkenny hurling passed it in 2022. Under Boylan, Meath won four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles in 1987, 1988, 1996 and 1999, together with eight Leinster titles and three National Football League titles. He also managed the Meath county hurling team, with which he had played for 21 years, and he managed Ireland in the 2006 and 2008 International Rules Series. In 2006 he was made Freeman of the County of Meath, the first person to receive that title, and he entered the GAA Hall of Fame. Outside sport he practises as a traditional medical herbalist, and a documentary about his life aired on RTÉ in 2020.