Mickey Kearns

Mickey Kearns

Personal information
Sport	Gaelic football
Position	Forward
Born	Sligo, Ireland
Club(s)
Years	Club
	St Patrick's Dromard
Club Titles
Sligo titles	7
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1961-1978	Sligo
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles	1
All Stars	1

Mickey Kearns was a Gaelic football player from County Sligo. He played with Sligo for 17 years from 1961 to 1978. In 1971 he was the first Sligo man to win an All-Star. He is also the only Sligo player to win a Cú Chulainn Award winning 3 in a row in 1964-66. In 1975 he helped Sligo win the Connacht Senior Football Championship for the first time since 1928.

Kearns played with Connacht in the Railway Cup winning titles in ????. He played his club football with the St Patrick's Dromard club with whom he won seven Sligo Senior Football Championships. In 2003 he was included in the book Gaelic Football’s Top 20. He is a brother of former Sligo manager James. He managed the Sligo Under 21 team in the early to mid 2000s.

References

• http://hoganstand.com/sligo/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=26529
• http://hoganstand.com/sligo/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=122532

Persondata
Name	Kearns, Mickey
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Date of birth
Place of birth	Sligo
Date of death
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