The Portlaoise native has announced he will retire at the end of the 2024 AFL season.
15 YEARS AGO, two teenagers, one from Laois and one from Cork, headed to Melbourne to embark on a sporting adventure.
“I remember we got a slab of beer one night at the start and said we’d go out in the local town after and it turned out to be the quietest place ever.Sheehan returned home and funnelled his energy into Cork football, lifting Sam Maguire in 2010. He got a chance in November 2013 to have another crack off breaking into the AFL.
At Geelong’s home in the GMHBA Stadium this Saturday, he is set to line out for the 287th time in the AFL. “There was only eight players of the about 50 that had come over had managed to get to 50 games or more. That’ll show you the scale of how difficult it is.In Ireland, Tuohy’s achievements have tended to fly under the radar. The reasons are multifactorial, playing a sport in another hemisphere naturally leads to someone operating out of sight and out of mind.
In one Laois senior football tie in 2015, he came off the bench to rescue a draw for Portlaoise against Emo, and then fired 1-2 in the replay win. That mentoring role continued in Geelong for Kerry duo Mark O’Connor and Stefan Okunbor, and more recently Mayo’s Oisin Mullin.
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