Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Donie O'Sullivan | |
Irish: | Dónal Ó Súilleabháin |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 10 |
Occupation: | Teacher[1] [2] |
County: | Kerry |
Province: | Munster |
Clposition: | Corner-back |
Clubs: | Dr Crokes, Spa, Clan na Gael, UCD, Kerry (New York) |
Clyears: | 1950s–1970s |
Counties: | Kerry |
Icposition: | Corner-back |
Icyears: | 1962–1975 |
Icapps(Points): | 35 (0-02) |
Icprovince: | 9 |
Icallireland: | 4 |
Nfl: | 7 |
Allstars: | 2[3] |
Birth Place: | Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland |
Donie O'Sullivan (; born 1940) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for the Spa club and at senior level for the Kerry county team between 1962 and 1975.[4] He was the recipient of Kerry's first All Star Award in 1971,[5] a feat he repeated in 1972.[4] [6] In 2019, he was inducted into Munster GAA's "hall of fame".[1] [5]
According to a 2019 interview, while studying educational psychology at St. John's University in New York during the 1960s, O'Sullivan was offered a contract by New York Jets coach Weeb Ewbank.[1]