Leo Hickey
{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}
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| name = Leo Hickey
| irish = Leo Ó hÍcí
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| county = Dublin
| province = Leinster
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| cposition = Goalkeeper
| clubs = Ballyboughal
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| counties = Dublin
| icposition = Full-back
| icyears = 1961-1964
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| icallireland = 1
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| birth_place=Ballyboughal, County Dublin, Ireland
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Leo Hickey (born 1939) is an Irish retired Gaelic footballer who played for club side Ballyboughal and at inter-county level with the Dublin senior football team.
Career
Hickey first came to prominence in 1961 with the Final League selection in the Dublin County Championship and was full-back on that year's Dublin junior team. Shortly after this he was named full-back on the Dublin senior team for an O'Byrne Cup game against Longford. Hickey won back-to-back Leinster Championship medals in 1962 and 1963, and was in the Dublin inter-county side that won the 1963 All-Ireland final against Galway.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/the-thing-i-most-remember-is-the-noise-from-the-second-we-ran-out-there-was-a-din-and-it-was-constant-39215787.html|title='The thing I most remember is the noise. From the second we ran out, there was a din. And it was constant'|publisher=Irish Independent|access-date=1 June 2021|date=18 May 2020|first=Niall|last=Scully}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/decades-of-the-dubs/the-swinging-sixties-how-the-dubs-beat-the-odds-to-reclaim-sam-after-heffos-retirement-38423530.html|title=The swinging Sixties - How the Dubs beat the odds to reclaim Sam after Heffo's retirement|publisher=Irish Independent|access-date=1 June 2021|date=26 August 2019|first=Rónán|last=Mac Lochlainn}}
Honours
References
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