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Seán Óg Ó hAilpín (born 22 May 1977) is a Fijian-Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. In an inter-county playing career that spanned three decades, Ó hAilpín played for the Cork senior hurling and football teams, winning major honours with both. He also enjoyed much success with club side Na Piarsaigh and represented Munster in the inter-provincial championships. After starting his career as a hurler at minor level, Ó hAilpín joined the Cork senior hurling team in 1996. Between then and 2012 he won three All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals and one National Hurling League medal. Ó hAilpín's three-year career with the Cork senior football team saw him win one Munster medal and one National Football League medal. At club level Ó hAilpín is a two-time county hurling championship medalist with Na Piarsaigh. Ó hAilpín has a number of personal achievements, including three consecutive All Star awards. In 2004 he made a clean sweep of all the top individual awards, winning the Alln Star, Texaco and GPA Hurler of the Year awards. Four years later in 2009 he was chosen on the Munster team of the past twenty-five years. His brothers Setanta, Teu, and Aisake are also notable sportsmen. In October 2013, Ó hAilpín released his autobiography called ''Sean Og O hAilpin ... The Autobiography''. ==Early life== Ó hAilpín was born on the island of Rotuma, 646 kilometres north of the main Fiji islands to Seán Ó hAilpín, an oil-rig worker and a native of Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, and his wife Emilie, a hotel worker and a Rotuman. The eldest of six children, he was the only Ó hAilpín to be born on his mother's native island. When Ó hAilpín was three years-old the family emigrated to Sydney in Australia. It was here that he first gained an interest in various sports, particularly rugby league. His years in Australia also saw the birth of Ó hAilpín's siblings - Teu, Sarote, Setanta and Aisake. Both Setanta and Aisake would later play for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League. Teu subsequently played both hurling and football in Ireland and Britain. The Ó hAilpín family moved from Australia to Ireland in 1988 and settled in Cork. They rented a house in the city before moving permanently to Blarney, just a short few miles outside the city. Ó hAilpín adapted well to life in his new surroundings and openly accepted all aspects of Irish culture. He was educated locally in the Gaelcholáiste section of the famous North Monastery secondary school. Here, all of Ó hAilpín's classes were taught in Irish, a language that was alien to him, however, he quickly became fluent. It was in the 'North Mon' that he was also first introduced to Gaelic games, and he quickly became a key component of the school's senior hurling team. Ó hAilpín subsequently attended Dublin City University. In 1999 he was conferred with a BSc in Finance Computing and Entrepreneurship ''(Airgeadas, Ríomhairíocht agus Fiontraíocht)''. He currently works as an official with the Ulster Bank group in Cork. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seán Óg Ó hAilpín」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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