Willie Joe Padden is a former Gaelic footballer who received two All Stars awards, and represented Mayo in a 1989 All-Ireland SFC Final but lost to Cork.
He attended his local primary school in Aughalsheen just outside Belmullet.
Padden started playing Gaelic football at age 11, played Minor football for Belmullet GFC at 14 and started playing Senior club championship at the age of 16, joining the Mayo minor panel in the same year.
A year later aged 19 he played in a National Football League final against Dublin in Croke Park.
Songs written about him include the Saw Doctors' "Hay Wrap", which features the line "Will Galway beat Mayo?