Seán Ó Síocháin was an Irish

Ireland

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 footballer, hurler and ballad-singer who became General-Secretary of the GAA

Gaelic Athletic Association

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Life

He was born at Cill na Marta, West Cork

County Cork

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. He played hurling and football for Macroom

Macroom GAA

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 and won a Cork Senior Football Championship medal in 1931. He played for the Cork senior football team and Munster in the Railway Cup.

In 1935 he moved to Dublin as a teacher, where he played with the Clann na Gael Club, winning a Dublin Senior Football Championship medal in 1936.

He was Secretary-General of the GAA from 1964 to 1979. After his retirement he continued to work for the GAA in a fund-raising role.

As a ballad-singer he had his own radio program on Radio Éireann in the 1950s and toured America four times.