Cyril Haran
Personal information
SportGaelic football
Born(1931-02-07)7 February 1931
Died25 June 2014(2014-06-25) (aged 83)
North West Hospice, The Mall,
Rathquarter, Sligo
Nickname"Cyrilly", "Dosser"
OccupationPriest, schoolteacher
Club management
Years Club
St Mary's
Roscommon Gaels
St Michael's
Inter-county management
Years Team
1983–1985 Sligo

Cyril Haran (7 February 1931 – 25 June 2014) was a Gaelic footballer and manager, priest, scholar[1] and schoolteacher. He managed the Sligo county team.

Biography

Cyril Haran was born in February 1931.[2] He had three sisters: Grace Liddy (who predeceased him), Margo (based in Sligo at her brother's death) and Sr Vickey Haran (California. He played Gaelic football for Grange as a youth during the 1940s and would go on to become club president.[1][2][3][4]


Fr. Haran spent 58 years as a priest.[2] having been ordained in 1956. His first appointment was as curate in Roscommon and Sooey.[1] He spent most of his priestly life as a teacher, first teaching English at Summerhill College in Sligo (where he was known as "Cyrilly" or "Dosser"),[5] as well as training the school's soccer and Gaelic football teams.[2][1] He also taught at St Muredach's College in Ballina, County Mayo, and spent time teaching at the University of San Diego in 1968.[1]

In 1988, he was posted to Grange as CC and became parish priest of Ahamlish and Inishmurray in 1997. His retirement came in 2003.[2] He received a celebration Mass and presentation.[6] He spent it at Streedagh until he died from a short illness at the North West Hospice in June 2014 at the age of 83.[3][1][7] His funeral was held at Church of Mary Immaculate, Grange, and he was buried afterwards in Sligo Cemetery.[1]


He managed St Mary's to their first Sligo Senior Football Championship title; in 1977, they were the first Sligo club to win a Connacht Senior Club Football Championship title. In 1978, he managed St Mary's to a Sligo Football Championship semi-final against Grange, won by Grange in a replay.[2]

He managed the Sligo county team between 1983 and 1985.[2] Other teams he managed were Roscommon Gaels and St Michael's. He was noted for telling his teams: "Lads, winning isn't everything", then to pause and follow through with "It's the only thing".[2] His enjoyments included literature and fishing.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Fr Cyril Haran played huge role in Sligo GAA circles: Priest also remembered as renowned scholar and teacher". The Sligo Champion. 1 July 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Very Rev. Fr. Cyril Haran, P.E. , Ahamlish, Grange, Co. Sligo" (PDF). 28 June 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 Kilfeather, Thomas (30 June 2014). "Fr. Cyril Haran R.I.P."
  4. ↑ "St Molaise Gaels". The Sligo Champion. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "Nick Names". Archived from the original on 5 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "North Sligo: Presentation to Fr. Haran". The Sligo Champion. 21 January 2004. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019.
  7. ↑ "Recently Deceased". Archived from the original on 10 May 2019.
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