Colin Healy
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Colin Healy | ||
| Date of birth | 14 March 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Cork, Ireland | ||
| Height | 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Cork City | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1997 | Ballincollig and Wilton United | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1998–2003 | Celtic | 30 | (1) |
| 2002–2003 | → Coventry City (loan) | 17 | (2) |
| 2003–2006 | Sunderland | 20 | (0) |
| 2006 | Livingston | 9 | (2) |
| 2006–2007 | Barnsley | 8 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Bradford City (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Cork City | 44 | (2) |
| 2009–2011 | Ipswich Town | 20 | (2) |
| 2010 | → Falkirk (loan) | 19 | (1) |
| 2012– | Cork City | 90 | (5) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1998–1999 | Republic of Ireland U18 | ||
| 2002–2003 | Republic of Ireland | 13 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 October 2012. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 September 2009 |
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Colin Healy (born 14 March 1980) is an Irish footballer who plays for League of Ireland club Cork City. He has represented Republic of Ireland national team.
Healy was born in Ballincollig, County Cork. He came from a sporting family, with his grandfather Paddy Healy having been a Gaelic footballer and hurler who won All-Ireland Senior Football Championship and All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship medals with the Cork inter-county football and hurling teams respectively in 1945 and 1946. Healy played local soccer with Ballincollig and then Wilton United. He attended the FAS/FAI course in Cork run by former Celtic and Cork City midfielder Mike Conroy and from here he was taken to Celtic Park. He would go on to score three goals for Celtic, his first coming in a league game against Dundee in February 2000. With Celtic he won a Scottish League Cup medal, playing in the team that beat Kilmarnock 3–0 at Hampden on 18 March 2001.
He played and scored a goal against Australia at the FIFA World Youth Championship finals in Nigeria in 1999 [1].
Represented his country at the UEFA U-19 Championship in Sweden in 1999 where he won a bronze medal [2].
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