Sean Ferriter (born 15 September 1938)[2] is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for St Eunan's and the Donegal county team.
[2] For his secondary education, Ferriter attended St Eunan's College as a boarder, playing for the school team (as a goalkeeper) and being greatly influenced by John Wilson, the Gaelic footballer and future Tánaiste who was teaching there at that time.
[2][4] Ferriter played for the Donegal team that won the 1956 Ulster Minor Football Championship.
[1] He met his wife Mary, originally from Thurles, while she was working as a civil servant in Dublin (where Ferriter was at the time based as a Garda); she predeceased him.
[2] In May 2012, the Irish Independent named him in its selection of Donegal's "greatest team" spanning the previous 50 years.