Donie O'Sullivan (; born 1940) is an Irish former

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er who played for the

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club and at senior level for the Kerry county team between 1962 and 1975. He was the recipient of Kerry's first All Star Award in 1971, a feat he repeated in 1972. In 2019, he was inducted into

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's "hall of fame". According to a 2019 interview, while studying

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at St. John's University in New York during the 1960s, O'Sullivan was offered a contract by

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coach

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