Mick Higgins (22 August 1922 – 28 January 2010)[1] was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played at senior level for the Cavan county team, winning three All-Ireland medals during his career.

[2] Higgins won the Cavan Senior Football Championship with Mountnugent GAA in 1946, he played with famous players such as Tony Tighe, Peter Donohue and Connie Kelly.

Upon his death in 2010 Higgins was said by the Irish Independent's Martin Breheny to have been "widely regarded as one of the greatest talents ever to emerge from Cavan".

[2] The Longford Leader's Eugene McGee described him as "a man who became a GAA superstar of his generation, despite limited coverage of games he played".

[5] In 1947 he flew for 30 hours with the Cavan team to New York to play in that year's All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final, held abroad on that occasion to mark the centenary of the Great Famine and celebrate the Irish who emigrated at this time.

[6] To celebrate the team embarked on a voyage on the RMS Queen Mary being greeted by crowds of people in Southampton, London and Birmingham.

[4] At his death Cavan had not featured in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final since Higgins's last win in 1952.

[6] His death meant that Owen Roe McGovern, who died in 2011, was the last survivor from Cavan All-Ireland winning teams of 1947 and '48.