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Place of Birth: Valentia Island, Munster, Ireland
About Mick O'Connell
- Michael "Mick" O'Connell (born 4 January 1937) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer.
- His league and championship career with the Kerry senior team spanned nineteen seasons from 1956 to 1974.
- O'Connell is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.Born on Valentia Island, County Kerry, O'Connell was raised in a family that had no real link to Gaelic football.
- In spite of this he excelled at the game in his youth and also at Cahersiveen CBS.
- By his late teens O'Connell had joined the Young Islanders, and won seven South Kerry divisional championship medals in a club career that spanned four decades and included a spell playing with Waterville.
- He also lined out with South Kerry, winning three county senior championship medals between 1955 and 1958. O'Connell made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of eighteen when he was selected for the Kerry minor team.
- He enjoyed one championship season with the minors, however, he was a Munster runner-up on that occasion.
- O'Connell subsequently joined the Kerry senior team, making his debut during the 1956 championship.
- Over the course of the next nineteen seasons, he won eight All-Ireland medals, beginning with lone triumphs in 1959 and 1962, and culminating in back-to-back championships in 1969 and 1970.
- O'Connell also won twelve Munster medals, six National Football League medals and was named Footballer of the Year in 1962.
- He played his last game for Kerry in July 1974.
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