Michael Meehan
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Mícheál Ó Míocháin | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Full Forward | ||
| Born | 1984 (age 32–33) Ballinasloe, Ireland |
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| Occupation | Teacher | ||
| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 2001- | Caltra | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Galway titles | 1 | ||
| Connacht titles | 1 | ||
| All-Ireland Titles | 1 | ||
| Colleges(s) | |||
| Years | College | ||
| NUI Galway | |||
| College titles | |||
| Sigerson titles | 1 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | Apps (scores) | |
| 2003-2014 | Galway | 31 (12-84) SFC only | |
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Connacht titles | 3 | ||
| All-Irelands | 0 | ||
| NFL | 0 | ||
| All Stars | 0 | ||
Michael Meehan is a Gaelic footballer from County Galway. Meehan plays his club football with Caltra and played county football for the Galway senior football team. He announced his retirement from inter county football on 21 March 2014 due to injury.
Michael attended the famous St. Jarlath's College in Tuam, playing in three consecutive Hogan Cups in 2000, 2001, and 2002. Although they lost the 2000 semi-final to St. Patrick's Navan and the 2001 final to the same opponents they were unstoppable in 2002 to claim their 12th title with a 3–13 to 0–06 victory against St. Michael's Enniskillen. He was an inspirational figure at full-forward, scoring 1–06. Future Galway teammates, Darren Mullahy, Gary Sice, Damien Dunleavy, Alan Burke and Niall Coleman were also on the team. James Kavanagh a future Kildare senior also played on the side. Michael captained the team in their victorious 2002 campaign.
Michael won a Connacht MFC medal in 2002, and made his first inter-county Championship start in 2003, the Connacht Senior Football Championship 1sr round clash against Roscommon. Since then, he has been a key part of the Galway set-up, having been consistently been picked by four different managers, John O'Mahony, Peter Forde, Liam Sammon and his current boss, Joe Kernan. Michael has 3 Connacht medals to his name, coming in 2003, 2005 and 2008.
In 2004, Michael was part of the Caltra team that enjoyed a memorable run to All-Ireland Club Championship glory. After coming through the Galway and Connacht club finals, which first time triumphs for the club, Caltra met An Ghaeltacht of Munster. In a close exciting encounter, Caltra prevailed by one point, 0–13 to 0–12. Michael was named Man Of The Match for his performance, scoring 6 points. His brothers, Declan, Tomás, Enda and Noel, who captained the team, were all starting players on the team.
For several years, Michael was also a part of the Galway Under-21 set up. He was a key part of both of Galway's Under-21 All-Ireland triumphs in 2002 and 2005. He formed a devastating partnership with Seán Armstrong in 2005 as they scored 6–03 between them in Galways' 6-05 to 4–06 victory over Down.
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