| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Seán Óg Sheehy | |
| Irish: | Seán Óg Mac Síthigh |
| Feet: | 5 |
| Inches: | 9 |
| Occupation: | Teacher |
| County: | Kerry |
| Province: | Munster |
| Club: | John Mitchels |
| Clcounty: | 6 |
| Colleges: | University College Cork University College Dublin |
| Sig: | 0 |
| Counties: | Kerry |
| Icposition: | Left wing-back |
| Icyears: | 1961–1963 |
| Icapps(Points): | 7 (1–00) |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Icallireland: | 1 |
| Nhl: | 1 |
| Birth Date: | 24 May 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
| Death Place: | Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland |
Seán Óg Sheehy (24 May 1939 – 31 May 2024) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with John Mitchels and at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team. Sheehy captained Kerry to the All-Ireland SFC title in 1962.
Born and raised in Tralee, County Kerry, his father, John Joe Sheehy, was a four-time All-Ireland SFC-winner and two-time winning captain with Kerry.[1] [2] Sheehy first played Gaelic football as a schoolboy with Tralee CBS and was a Munster Colleges runner-up in 1956. He later played with University College Cork and University College Dublin and was a Sigerson Cup runner-up in 1960.
Sheehy began his club career at juvenile and underage levels with the John Mitchels club in Tralee. He eventually progressed to adult level and won his first Kerry SFC after a 3-09 to 1-10 defeat of Feale Rangers in the 1959 final replay. It was the first of a record-setting five successive Kerry SFC titles for John Mitchels, with Sheehy lining out in all five triumphs.[3]
During those early successes, he also lined out with University College Cork and won a Cork SFC medal after a defeat of Avondhu in the 1960 final.[4] Sheehy claimed a sixth Kerry SFC title in 1966 after beating East Kerry by 2-10 to 1-10 in that year's final.[5]
Sheehy began his inter-county career with Kerry as a member of the minor hurling team in 1957. He made his debut with the Kerry senior football team in 0-12 to 0-06 defeat of Kildare in the National Football League in November 1961. A brief spell with the junior team was followed by being made captain of the senior team in 1962.[6] Sheehy won his first Munster SFC medal after a defeat of Cork that year before captaining Kerry to the All-Ireland SFC title after a 1-12 to 1-06 defeat of Roscommon in the final. His brothers, Niall and Paudie, were also on the team.[7]
Sheehy captained Kerry to a one-point defeat of Down in the 1963 National League home final. He claimed a second successive Munster SFC medal later that season, however, he subsequently lost his place on the starting fifteen.[8] Sheehy came on a substitute in the 1963 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Galway in what was his last game for the senior team. He returned to the junior team and ended his inter-county career by claiming a Munster JFC medal in 1965.[9]
Sheehy died in Tralee on 31 May 2024, at the age of 85.[10]
1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966
1962 (c)
1962 (c), 1963
1965