Sean O'Connell

Sean O'Connell, who was born in the 1930s and died in July 2003, was a Gaelic football manager and player who featured for the Derry county team in the late 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s. He was on the Derry side that finished runners-up to Dublin in the 1958 All-Ireland Championship while winning an Ulster Championship with the county that year, and he won three more in 1970, 1975 and 1976. For his performances in the 1967 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship he won a Cu Chulainn Award, the forerunner of the modern All Star Awards. He played his club football for Ballerin Sarsfields, whom he helped reach the 1976-77 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship final, lost to Austin Stacks of Kerry, and he also won two Derry Championships and an Ulster Senior Club title. He is regarded as a Derry legend and an all-time great of the game.