Keith Higgins
Personal information | |||
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Irish name | Ceiteach Ó hUiginn | ||
Sport | Dual Player | ||
Position | Left Corner Back | ||
Born | County Mayo | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||
Club(s) | |||
Years | Club | ||
Ballyhaunis | |||
Club titles | |||
Football | Hurling | ||
Mayo titles | 0 | 7 | |
Connacht titles | 0 | 0 | |
All-Ireland titles | 0 | 0 | |
Inter-county(ies) | |||
Years | County | ||
2006- | Mayo | ||
Inter-county titles | |||
NFL | 1 | ||
All Stars | 4 | ||
Connacht Titles | 7 |
Keith Higgins (Irish: Ceiteach Ó hUiginn) is an Irish sportsperson. He has played Gaelic football and hurling for both his club Ballyhaunis and the Mayo senior inter-county teams.
In 2006, he was the Young Player of the Year. He also captained both the Mayo Under 21 Football & Hurling teams to All Ireland Championships. Injury ruled him out of the 2007 championship.[1] Higgins has also represented Mayo and has played for Connacht in the Railway Cup in hurling winning a medal in 2005, in 2014 he became the first Connacht player won win football & hurling Railway Cups after Connacht win a first title since 1968.[1] Hurling is his first love.[2] In 2005 he won a Christy Ring Cup All Star, In 2008, Higgins was nominated for the Christy Ring Cup Player of the Year award.[3] Higgins was voted as the Cadbury's Hero of the Future in 2006.
During Mayo's 2011 NFL campaign, Higgins received praise for his outstanding performances in right half back.[citation needed]
Honours
- Football
- 7 Connacht Senior Football Championships (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- 1 Connacht Under-21 Football Championship (2006)
- 1 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship (2006)
- 1 Railway Cup (2014)
- 1 Sigerson Cup (2005)
- 4 GAA GPA All Stars Awards (2012, 2013, 2014, 2017)
- 1 All Star Young Footballer of the Year (2006)
- 1 National Football League (2019)
- Hurling
- 1 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship (2003)
- 1 Connacht Junior Hurling Championship (2003)
- 1 National Hurling League Division 3 (2005)
- 1 Railway Cup (2005)
- 1 Nicky Rackard Cup (2016)
- 1 Christy Ring Cup All Star (2008)
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
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- ^ http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/power-misses-out-on-gpa-nod-1494931.html
- All Stars Awards winners (football)
- All Stars Young Footballers of the Year
- Living people
- All Stars Young Footballer of the Year
- Ballyhaunis Gaelic footballers
- Ballyhaunis hurlers
- Dual players
- Gaelic football backs
- Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers
- Mayo inter-county hurlers
- Mayo Gaelic football biography stubs