James McCartan is an Irish Gaelic football manager and former player who played at senior level for the Down county team between 1990 and 2000.
McCartan was part of the Down team that won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1991 and 1994.
[2] In 2009 to mark the 125th anniversary of the Gaelic Athletic Association he was named by The Irish News as one of the all-time best 125 footballers from Ulster.
His father, also called James, is regarded as one of the game's all-time greats and won three All-Ireland medals with Down in the 1960s.
[1] McCartan won a second Ulster Championship medal with Down in 1994 - overcoming Tyrone comfortably in the decider.
[1] McCartan reached further Ulster finals with Down in 1996, 1999 and 2003,[citation needed] but the county were beaten on each occasion.
McCartan also represented Ulster on many occasions, and won the Railway Cup four times with the province.
In 2001, he helped the Ireland national Australian rules football team claim the Atlantic Alliance Cup.
The first team he took charge of was Queen's University who he led to Sigerson Cup glory in 2007.
[4] He led his team to the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in his first season in charge but they lost to Cork.