Code: | Football |
Sport: | Gaelic football |
Liam O'Neill | |
Irish: | Liam Ó Néill |
Feet: | 5 |
Inches: | 10 |
County: | Galway |
Province: | Connacht |
Clubs: | St Grellan's |
Clyears: | 1960s–1970s |
Counties: | Galway |
Icposition: | Right wing-back |
Icyears: | 1960s–1970s |
Icprovince: | 6 |
Icallireland: | 0 |
Nfl: | 0 |
Allstars: | 1 |
Birth Date: | 1947 |
Birth Place: | Ballinasloe, County Galway |
Liam O'Neill (born 1947) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a right wing-back at senior level for the Galway county team.
O'Neill joined the team during the late 1960s and was a regular member of the starting fifteen for almost a decade. During that time he won six Connacht medals and one All-Star award.[1] He is a member of a unique set of Galway players who lost three All-Ireland finals in four years
O'Neill had a lengthy club career with St Grellan's.
He went on to manage the Mayo county football team in later years and his son Kevin played inter-county football for Mayo.