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Seán Ó Síocháin (24 March 1914 – 2 February 1997) was an Irish footballer, hurler and ballad-singer who became General-Secretary of the GAA.
Life
He was born at Cill na Marta, West Cork. He played hurling and football for Macroom and won a Cork Senior Football Championship medal in 1931. He played for the Cork senior football team and Munster in the Railway Cup.
In 1935 he moved to Dublin as a teacher, where he played with the Clann na Gael Club, winning a Dublin Senior Football Championship medal in 1936.
He was Secretary-General of the GAA from 1964 to 1979. After his retirement he continued to work for the GAA in a fund-raising role.
As a ballad-singer he had his own radio program on Radio Éireann in the 1950s and toured America four times.
References
Seán Ó Síocháin Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA