Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Séamus Heery | |
Irish: | Séamus Ó hÍorua |
Nickname: | Séamie |
County: | Meath |
Province: | Leinster |
Club: | Rathkenny North Meath |
Clcounty: | 1 |
Counties: | Meath |
Icposition: | Right wing-back |
Icyears: | 1949-1951 |
Icprovince: | 2 |
Icallireland: | 1 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Icupdate: | 17:09, 9 November 2014 |
Birth Date: | 1927 |
Birth Place: | Rathkenny, County Meath, Ireland |
Death Date: | 5 November 2014 (aged 87) |
Death Place: | Collon, County Meath, Ireland |
Séamus "Séamie" Heery (1927 – 5 November 2014) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a right wing-back at senior level for the Meath county team.[1] [2]
Born in Rathkenny, County Meath, Heery first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of twenty-two when he first linked up with the Meath senior team, making his debut during the 1949 championship. Heery went on to play a key role for Meath, and won one All-Ireland medal and two Leinster medals. He was an All-Ireland runner-up on one occasion.
At club level Heery was a one-time championship medallist with divisional side North Meath. He also played with club side Rathkenny.
His nephew, Mick O'Dowd, was also an All-Ireland medallist with Meath.[3]
Heery retired from inter-county football following the conclusion of the 1951 championship.