Mickey Quinn

{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}

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| name = Mickey Quinn

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| sport = Gaelic football

| code = Football

| county = Leitrim

| province = Connacht

| clposition = Full Back

| club = Aughawillan

| clyears = ? - ?

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| clcounty = 4

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| clubs = Aughawillan

| counties = Leitrim

| icposition = Midfield

| icyears = 1981 - 1995

| icapps(points) = 21 (2-08)

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| allstars = 1

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| birth_place = Aughawillan, County Leitrim, Ireland

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Mickey Quinn is a former Gaelic footballer from County Leitrim, Ireland. Along with Seamus Quinn he is the only other Leitrim man to win an All Star award. He is also one of the finest Gaelic footballers Leitrim ever produced, {{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Quinn won an All Star at Midfield in 1990 and at the time was only the second player to have never played in Croke Park to win one.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

He won Leitrim Senior Football Championship titles in 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 with Aughawillan. In 1990, he won an All Ireland B Titles. In 1994 he was part of the county's memorable Connacht Senior Football Championship victory.{{cite web |url=http://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/local-news/jerome-the-grass-and-the-rossies-1-2031962 |title=Jerome, the grass and the Rossies - Leitrim Observer |accessdate=2014-02-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306051503/http://www.leitrimobserver.ie/news/local-news/jerome-the-grass-and-the-rossies-1-2031962 |archivedate=2014-03-06 }} In 2010 he managed Aughawillan to the Leitrim Intermediate Football Championship.{{cite news|first=Gerry|last=Hand|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/leitrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=48800|title=Leitrim's Mighty Quinn|work=Hogan Stand|date=29 March 1991}}

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