page_title: Seán O'Neill
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Seán O'Neill / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The 1958 Queens University Belfast team that won that year's Sigerson Cup. Back Row (l-r): Seán O’Kane, Peter Smith (Derry), Christy Mallon (RIP) (Tyrone), Phil Stuart (Derry), Seán O'Neill (Down), Patsy McDonald, Séamus McMahon, Henry McRory Middle Row (l-r):John O’Neill, Tom Scullion (Derry), Barney McNally, Paddy McGuckian, Mick Brewster (RIP) (Fermanagh), Frank Higgins, Gerry O’Neill (Derry), Charlie Murphy, Leo O’Neill (Derry), Eamonn Flanigan Front Row (l-r): Dessie O’Rourke, Kevin Halpenny, Paddy O’Hara (Manager, RIP) (Antrim), Hugh O’Kane (Captain), Dr John Macaulay (RIP), Seamus Mallon, Brendan Donaghy. When presenting the trophy in 1911, Dr Grorge Sigerson stated: This trophy, symbolic of the unity of our race, will travel round Ireland, visiting the Provinces in turn. It was not until 1958 that this prediction was fulfilled when a winning team from Queen’s University Belfast brought the Sigerson Cup back to his home province of Ulster for the first time.
context_page_description: Seán O'Neill is a former Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club John Mitchel and was a member of the Down senior inter-county team from the 1950s until the 1960s. O'Neill is one of only four Down players to win three All-Ireland titles.
context_section_description: O'Neill scored 85 goals and over 500 points for Down senior football team in his career, and was a key figure in the county’s All-Ireland victories of 1960, 1961 and 1968. O'Neill's credits include eight Ulster senior football medals and eight Railway Cup medals in 1960, 1963 to 1966, 1968, 1970 and 1971. He won three National League medals, in 1960, 1962 and 1968, as well as six All Star awards. Other honours include a Sigerson Cup medal with the Queen's University of Belfast in 1958, whom he later coached to further wins.  He played club football with John Mitchel GFC Newry, winning the Down Senior Football Championship in 1960, 1964, 1967 and 1968. He also won the Down Minor Championship with Newry Mitchels in 1956 - the year the club was formed. His brother Kevin won an all Ireland with down in the 1960s.
  Along with Joe Lennon, Dan McCartan and Paddy Doherty he was one of four Down men who won all three All-Ireland medals in the 1960s.
caption: O'Neill (back row; fifth from left) with the 1958 Queens University Belfast Sigerson Cup winning side
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