Mick Haughney was a

Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by ki ...

er from County Laois. Nicknamed "Cutchie", Haughney was a native of the

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic bounda ...

border town of

Graiguecullen Graiguecullen GFC are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from County Laois, Ireland. The club played in Carlow for many years but in 1926 they were suspended. The club then chose to play in Laois and have been doing so ever since. The club wer ...

. He played at corner forward when Laois won Leinster titles in 1936, 1937 and 1938, but captained the O’Moore County side from midfield to

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glory against Kildare in 1946. Laois did not win the

again until 2003 when

Mick O'Dwyer Michael O'Dwyer (born 9 June 1936) is an Irish retired Gaelic football manager and former player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager an ...

led them to victory. Haughney also won 10

Laois Senior Football Championship The Laois Senior Football Championship is an annual Gaelic football competition contested by top-tier Laois GAA clubs. The Laois GAA, Laois County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association has organised it since 1888. Portarlington GAA, Portarli ...

medals with

. He emigrated to the US in 1949 and returned to live in Ireland during the mid-1990s. Haughney died in September 2006, aged 91.

References

* ''Laois GAA Yearbook'', Leinster Express (1999) Year of birth missing 2006 deaths Graiguecullen Gaelic footballers Laois inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Laois-gaelic-football-bio-stub