Eamonn O'Hara
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Irish name | Sligo | ||
| Sport | Gaelic football | ||
| Position | Midfield | ||
| Born |
25 September 1975 Tourlestrane, County Sligo |
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| Club(s) | |||
| Years | Club | ||
| 1992 – present | Tourlestrane | ||
| Club titles | |||
| Sligo titles | 8 | ||
| Inter-county(ies) | |||
| Years | County | ||
| 1994–2013 | Sligo | ||
| Inter-county titles | |||
| Connacht titles | 1 | ||
| All Stars | 1 | ||
Eamonn O'Hara (born 25 September 1975) was until 2013 the longest-serving Gaelic footballer at senior level. He first played in 1994 and officially announced his retirement from inter-county football on 14 May 2013.
He plays for his local club Tourlestrane and, though he also played for the Sligo senior inter county football team, where he was a long-serving talisman. O'Hara still managed to win one All Star during his career and was twice called up for Ireland in the International Rules Series.
O'Hara has had some success with his club team Tourlestrane, winning eight Sligo Senior Football Championships – in 1994, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. He was a member of the Benada Abbey team which won the All-Ireland colleges B title in 1992, beating Edenderry in the final after a replay.
O'Hara made his senior Sligo debut in 1994. He was named at centre forward in the 2002 All-Star football team, becoming only the third Sligo player in history to get an All Star.
In 2001 and 2002, O'Hara played for Ireland against Australia in the International Rules Series.
O'Hara won a Connacht Senior Football Championship medal for Sligo in 2007. This victory made Sligo the Connacht champions for the first time since 1975.
O'Hara's inter-county career highlight was his scoring of a brilliant individual goal against Galway in the 2007 Connacht Senior Football Championship Final. His success at putting the football into the back of the net earned him a sponsorship deal of gold boots through parent company Nike. Soon things returned to as they had been before. In 2008, Sligo were trashed by Mayo and ended up in the Tommy Murphy Cup following on from a league campaign that brought relegation to Division 4 – O'Hara said he was embarrassed by the rapid decline back into mediocrity.
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