Keith Higgins
Personal information
Irish name Ceiteach Ó hUiginn
Sport Dual Player
Position Left Corner Back
Born (1985-02-25) 25 February 1985
Castlebar, Ireland
Club(s)
Years Club
 Ballyhaunis GAA
Club titles
  Football Hurling
Mayo titles 0 13
Connacht titles 0 0
All-Ireland titles 0 0
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
2005–2021
2003–present
 Mayo (F)
Mayo (H)
Inter-county titles
NFL 1
All Stars 4
Connacht Titles 8

Keith Higgins (Irish: Ceiteach Ó hUiginn) is an Irish sportsperson. He has played both Gaelic football and hurling for Mayo GAA, the former until his retirement in January 2021. He also plays both sports for his club Ballyhaunis.

In 2006, he was the All Stars Young Footballer of the Year. He also captained both the Mayo under-21 football and hurling teams to All-Ireland Championships. Injury ruled him out of the 2007 championship.[1] Higgins also represented Mayo at senior level in both codes, played for Connacht in hurling's Railway Cup, winning a medal in 2005, while in 2014 he became the first Connacht player to win football and hurling Railway Cups after Connacht won a first title since 1968.[2]

Hurling is his first love.[3] He plays it for Ballyhaunis.[4] In 2005, Higgins won a Christy Ring Cup All Star while playing for the Mayo county team. In 2008, he was nominated for the Christy Ring Cup Player of the Year award.[5] 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.

Higgins retired from inter-county football in January 2021.[6] However, he expressed the wish to continue playing hurling for Mayo.[7][8] He was revealed as Mayo hurling team captain in May 2021.[9]

Honours

Football
Hurling

References

  1. ↑ "Sport".
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 22 October 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "The Mayo News".
  4. ↑ Finnerty, Mike (12 September 2020). "Higgins stars as Ballyhaunis bounce back for Mayo title". RTÉ.ie.
  5. ↑ "Power misses out on GPA nod".
  6. ↑ "Higgins retires". Hogan Stand. 23 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "Higgins to carry on hurling with Mayo". Hogan Stand. 1 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Keith Higgins: I feel lucky to have had so long at it". RTÉ. 28 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "Higgins announced as captain of the Mayo hurling team". The Connaught Telegraph. 5 May 2021.


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