Seán Doherty, born on 14 July 1946 and died on 7 July 2025, was an Irish Gaelic football player and manager who played club football with Ballyboden Wanderers, Ballyboden St Enda's and St Anne's and was a senior member of the Dublin county team throughout the 1970s. He first played for Dublin in 1969 and won 105 caps, and Kevin Heffernan appointed him captain in 1974, the year he led Dublin to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title, a first for the county in eleven years, and collected his only All Star award. He won a second All-Ireland medal in 1976 and several consecutive Leinster titles alongside it. Later in life he served as joint manager of the Dublin team with Gerry McCaul and Tony Hempenstall for the 1989 season.
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was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player who played football with his local club Ballyboden Wanderers
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Seán Doherty was born in Wicklow, Ireland on 14 July 1946.
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was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player who played football with his local club Ballyboden Wanderers
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was a senior member of the Dublin county team throughout the 1970s
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Doherty captained Dublin to the All-Ireland SFC title in 1974.
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