| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Eddie McKay | |
| Irish: | Éamon Mac Aodha |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 9 |
| County: | Down |
| Province: | Ulster |
| Club: | Dundrum |
| Clcounty: | 0 |
| Counties: | Down |
| Icposition: | Goalkeeper |
| Icyears: | 1957–1962 |
| Icprovince: | 3 |
| Icallireland: | 2 |
| Nfl: | 2 |
| Birth Date: | October 1937[1] |
| Birth Place: | Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland |
| Death Place: | Dundonald, County Down, Northern Ireland |
Edward (Éamon) McKay (October 1937 – 21 August 2024) was a Northern Irish Gaelic footballer and coach. He played at club level with Dundrum and at inter-county level with the Down senior football team.
McKay made his Down senior football team debut in an Ulster SFC defeat of Donegal in 1957. He won his first provincial medal two years later in 1959. It was the first of three successive Ulster SFC titles, while he also claimed consecutive All-Ireland SFC medals in 1960 and 1961.[2] [3] McKay was part of two National Football League title-winning teams.[4]
McKay subsequently went on to manage a number of Down clubs, including Downpatrick and Longstone. He guided the Dundrum club from Division 4 to Division 2 in one calendar year.
McKay died at Ulster Hospital on 21 August 2024, at the age of 86.[5] [6]
1959, 1960, 1961