SIX-TIME KERRY All-Ireland winner John Egan will be honoured this Saturday in his native Sneem when a memorial will be unveiled in tribute to the attacking great.
Egan, who passed away in April 2012, won six All-Ireland senior medals for the Kingdom between 1975 and 1984, along with 11 Munster senior titles in that time frame.
The forward also win five All-Star awards in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980 and 1982.
The unveiling ceremony will take place in his home village of Sneem in south Kerry on Saturday at 5pm, with the quartet of Mick O’Dwyer, Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, Jimmy Deenihan and Niall Cahalane performing the honours.
O’Dwyer was Kerry senior manager during that reign while Deenihan was a team-mate of Egan’s.
Cork All-Ireland winner Cahalane and Egan were close friends when their playing careers concluded, the pair living near each other in Cork City.
Their sons, Cork senior hurler Damien and Irish international John, played underage soccer together for Cork club Greenwood.
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Reading that tweet from his daughter has made my day. His family must be very proud and so they should be.
@Ned Flanders: Had the pleasure of seeing him play at Croker
My Dad brought me to a few of the Kerry games
As a lifelong Galway football follower it pained me to see Kerry dominate the game the way they did in John Egan’s time, but I loved watching him play. An all-time great to all football followers. The best tribute I can pay is to say I wish to God he was born in Galway. Well done Sneem, for acknowledging one of your own and I, too, love that tribute from his daughter. You will always be an All-Star, John Egan.
Have to say , he was my favourite player from that great team , loved watching him soloing and taking on his marker, the most underrated player on that team durning that Time
one of the greats went to sneem today and was v ery dissappointed as memorial did not look anything like john