Why Mick O’Dowd is on this page

Mick O’Dowd is a former Gaelic footballer and who was once manager of the Meath senior team.

O’Dowd previously managed his local club Skryne to success in 2004. Before that he was a member of the 2001 All-Ireland SFC final panel that lost to Galway, with Galway becoming the first team to win an All-Ireland title after having lost in their province.

In October 2012, O’Dowd was appointed as Meath manager to replace Séamus McEnaney, with his colleague Trevor Giles and Séan Kelly. In July 2016, O’Dowd stepped down as manager after four years in charge.

Sources

• Wikipedia — article.
• Wikidata Q6838384.

Heritage notes

Family root: irish-born-confirmed.

The directory threads Mick O’Dowd back to the Ó Dubhda clan story via the surname-variants reality — the same family carried these spellings as it scattered. See the septs and the diaspora for the wider pattern, or the Clan DNA Project for the genetic connections being mapped now.