Kearins features in GAA Legends book

A new book listing 100 GAA legends features a Sligo man. Former Sligo great Mickey Kearins is a among the names in Roscommon native John Scally’s new book The GAA Immortals: 100 Gaelic Games Legends.

Kearins, regarded as Sligo’s greatest ever footballer, scored 36 goals and 1,158 points for Sligo in his 215 games for Sligo. The west Sligo man was on the famous 1975 side that won the Connacht title, the county’s first since 1928. He was also the first Sligo man to win an All-Star award. Despite the longevity of his career Kearins never shed the burden of having the weight of expectations of Sligo fans on his shoulders.‘I was always nervous before a game, knowing Sligo were depending on me. To slot the first free between the posts was always very important to help me to relax.’ He was also on the winning Connacht Railway Cup teams in 1967 and 1969 and was inducted into the GAA Hall of Fame in 2012. Kearins is very proud too of the seven county championships he won with Skreen-Dromard in the 1960s and 1970s. The book is out now.