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| Sport | Gaelic football | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael McGeehin (born 1961/62)[1] is aGaelic football trainer currently attached as head coach[2] toTipperary. He has previously worked with theClare,Mayo,Fermanagh,Donegal,Limerick andLaois county teams (as well as numerous clubs), and the association football teamsFanad United andFinn Harps.
Among the honours he has helped the counties collect are aMunster Senior Football Championship, aConnacht Senior Football Championship, an All-Ireland B Championship and twoNational Football League Division 4 titles; with clubs he has won threeDonegal Senior Football Championships and oneClare Senior Football Championship and reached the semi-finals of theAll-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
FromLetterkenny, McGeehin's home [GAA] club isSt Eunan's.[1][2][3] He works regularly withCharlie McGeever, who has described him as "my buddy since '82… We are like minded".[4]
McGeehin was part of a group of seven (the others beingPauric Gallagher, Jimmy Kennedy, Michael McBrearty,Charlie McGeever, Donnacha Mac Niallais and Seamus Meehan) who would travel back and forth fromThomond College of Education, Limerick, to Donegal for games and training sessions in the early 1980s, with Gallagher as the driver.[4] McGeehin is director of Coaching Ireland.[2] He is based atUL.[1][5]
McGeehin started his involvement coaching inter-county teams in 1992, juggling Clare and Mayo as both won their respective provincial championships.[1][5]
He led Convoy to the 1995Donegal Junior Football Championship.[1] He coached the Donegal under-15, under-16 and minor teams around this time.[1]
He was involved with theFanad United team that won the 1996FAI Intermediate Cup.[1] He then spent two seasons withFinn Harps, working alongside McGeever and bringing the club as far as the1999 FAI Cup Final.[1][4]
McGeehin was part ofJohn Maughan's team when Fermanagh won an All-Ireland Senior B Football Championship.[1]
He coachedGlenswilly to a Junior League title in 2001.[1] He was involved with Seán MacCumhaill's when they reached the final of the 2004Donegal Senior Football Championship.[1]
WithÉire Óg ofEnnis, McGeehin won the 2006Clare Senior Football Championship.[1]
He worked underMickey Ned O'Sullivan as Limerick manager and, later, underMaurice Horan.[6][5][3]
He ledSt Eunan's to the 2008 and 2009 Donegal Senior Football Championships.[1] This resulted in him becoming involved with the Donegal senior team duringJohn Joe Doherty's time as manager.[2] He briefly spent time with Limerick in 2012, as they won theNational Football League Division 4 title.[1] He then returned to St Eunan's to oversee their winning of the2012 Donegal Senior Football Championship.[1][3]
He worked with Tipperary until late-2015 under the management ofPeter Creedon.[1] He also led the Tipperary team to the final of the2015 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship.[1] He then spent a year away from inter-county coaching, though received numerous offers in that time.[1] Meanwhile, on his brief spell away from inter-county, McGeehin reached the semi-finals of the2015–16 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship withClonmel Commercials and worked with theCratloe andCastlebar Mitchels clubs.[1] He worked with McGeever while at Clonmel Commercials.[4] In 2016, he joined Laois when Creedon became manager of the county.[1] In 2019, McGeehin was reappointed to Tipperary (again alongside McGeever) whenDavid Power was appointed manager following the resignation ofLiam Kearns.[2][4]
'Pauric, God have mercy on him, was the driver', McGeever remembers.