Mickey Quinn recently retired from inter-county football with Longford.
WHEN FORMER LONGFORD defender Dermot Brady announced his inter-county retirement in 2018, a young Mickey Quinn considered his teammate as a much older bull in the herd.“He’s ancient playing football at this age,” Quinn thought to himself at the time. Brady, considered to be one of the best corner-backs the county ever produced, was approaching 36 at the time. He was married, was running his family farm, and had two young children at home.
After signing as an international rookie with Essendon as an 18-year-old, he quickly smashed Marty Clarke’s record for the quickest AFL debut by a GAA player by making his bow in Round 2 of the 2009 season. He made eight appearances for the club before returning to Ireland in 2012. Advertisement “We trained in Forgney the Tuesday night before that game. I’m not sure if that’s technically an official pitch because the club isn’t in action. But that was the only pitch we could get and I hurt the knee then. I wasn’t the only one to get injured that night.
“I knew something was after setting me back straight away. I got another MRI and it showed that some cartilage was floating around. Quinn is a secondary school teacher by trade, but knowing that his Longford retirement was drawing near, he began planning for life after inter-county football. He enrolled in a Performance Masters Coaching course with Setanta and just recently, he launched his new business, MQ Performance.As the project is still in its early stages, his vision for the business isn’t quite complete yet.
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