SFC Man of Match

The Fr. McGee trophy has been presented each year since 1977 to the winner of the Longford Senior Football Championship Man of the Match award. The award is named in honour of Fr. Phil McGee from Colmcille who was heavily involved with the great Longford teams of the 1960’s and was the first principal of Moyne Community School. He passed away on 27th January 1975 at the age of 46 years, just a few months after the school opened. Fr. McGee (brother of Eugene McGee) had a big impact on football in Longford at both minor and senior level and the Colmcille club grounds is named in his honour.

Dessie Barry (Longford Slashers, 1989-1991) and Daniel Mimnagh (Killoe Young Emmets, 2014, 2019, 2023) have the unique distinction of winning the Man of the Match award three times, while Padraic Davis (Fr. Manning Gaels 1997, 1998) and Mick Casey (Cashel 1984, 1986) won the award twice. A player from the losing side won the Man of the Match award on two occasions (Brendan Lennon for Killoe in 1987 and Conor Berry for Abbeylara in 2015). The only two brothers to win the award were Paul Barden (2004) and David Barden (2009).