Seamus Quinn

{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}

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|code = Football

|county = Leitrim

|province = Connacht

|clposition = Full Back

|club = Gortletteragh

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|icposition = Full Back

|icyears = 1993–2004

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Seamus Quinn is a former Gaelic footballer from Gortletteragh, County Leitrim. Along with Mickey Quinn he is Leitrim's only All Star winner. Quinn won an All Star at full-back in 1994. This was in Leitrim's Connacht Senior Football Championship winning season; Quinn would go on to become the last remaining member of that team following the departure of Fergal Reynolds.{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/leitrims-quinn-reeling-in-years-168085.html|title=Leitrim's Quinn reeling in years|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=18 June 2004|accessdate=6 May 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/leitrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=17176|title=Quinn boost for Leitrim|work=Hogan Stand|date=5 July 2003|accessdate=5 July 2003}}

In 2000, Brian McEniff selected him to represent Ireland against Australia, becoming the first Leitrim player to receive international recognition.{{cite news|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/leitrim/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=17017|title=Quinn to retire?|work=Hogan Stand|date=16 February 2001|accessdate=16 February 2001}}

After retirement from playing he managed the county's junior team to a Connacht Junior Football Championship title in 2017.

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