Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler
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Place of Birth: Rotuma Island, Rotuma, Fiji
About Seán Óg Ó hAilpín
- Seán Óg Ó hAilpín (Irish pronunciation: ['???n? ?o?g o? 'hal??p?i?n?], born 22 May 1977) is a Fijian-Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. In an inter-county playing career that spanned three decades, Ó hAilpín played for the Cork senior hurling and football teams, winning major honours with both.
- He also enjoyed much success with club side Na Piarsaigh and represented Munster in the inter-provincial championships. After starting his career as a hurler at minor level, Ó hAilpín joined the Cork senior hurling team in 1996.
- Between then and 2012 he won three All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal.
- Ó hAilpín's three-year career with the Cork senior football team saw him win one Munster medal and one National Football League medal. At club level Ó hAilpín is a two-time county hurling championship medalist with Na Piarsaigh. Ó hAilpín has a number of personal achievements, including three consecutive All Star awards.
- In 2004 he made a clean sweep of all the top individual awards, winning the All Star, Texaco and GPA Hurler of the Year awards.
- Four years later in 2009 he was chosen on the Munster team of the past twenty-five years. His brothers Setanta, Teu, and Aisake are also notable sportsmen. In October 2013, Ó hAilpín released his autobiography called Sean Og O hAilpin ...
- The Autobiography.
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