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{{Short description|Irish Gaelic footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Gaelic games player
| code= Football
| sport = Gaelic football
| image = 
| name = Simon Behan
| irish = Síomón Ó Beacháin
| feet = 5
| inches = 10 
| occupation = Advertising and PR executive
| nickname = 
| county = Dublin
| province = Leinster
| club = 
| cposition = Goalkeeper
| clubs = [[St Vincents GAA|St. Vincent's]]
| clyears = 
| clapps(points) = 
| clcounty = 3
| clprovince= 
| clallireland = 
| counties = [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]]
| icposition = Right wing-back
| icyears = 1961-1968
| icapps(points) = 
| icprovince = 1
| icallireland = 1
| nfl = 0
| allstars = 
| clupdate = 
| icupdate =
| birth_place=[[Marino, Dublin|Marino]], [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| death_place=[[Baldoyle]], Dublin, Ireland
| birth_date = 1941
| death_date = 26 January 2009 (aged 67)
}}
'''Simon P. Behan''' (1941 – 26 January 2009) was an Irish [[Gaelic football]]er who played for club side [[St Vincents GAA|St. Vincent's]] and at inter-county level with the [[Dublin senior football team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hoganstand.com/Dublin/Article/Index/63001|title=Simon Behan|publisher=Hogan Stand|access-date=1 June 2021|date=18 September 1992|first=|last=}}</ref>

==Career==

A product of the first-ever [[Hogan Cup]]-winning [[St Joseph's, Fairview|St. Joseph's CBS]] team, Behan's performances quickly brought him to the notice of the county selectors and he was a substitute on the [[Dublin GAA|Dublin minor team]] that won the [[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|All-Ireland Championship]] in 1958 when [[Mayo GAA|Mayo]] were beaten in the final. Behan broke onto the minor starting fifteen and claimed a second successive title the following year before lining out with the Dublin junior team in 1960. Around this time he also win the first of three [[Dublin Senior Football Championship|County Championship]] titles with [[St Vincents GAA|St. Vincent's]] before being included on the Dublin senior team. Behan won a [[Leinster Senior Football Championship|Leinster Championship]] medals in 1963, and he was part of the team that won the [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1963 All-Ireland final]] by defeating [[Galway GAA|Galway]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/the-thing-i-most-remember-is-the-noise-from-the-second-we-ran-out-there-was-a-din-and-it-was-constant-39215787.html|title='The thing I most remember is the noise. From the second we ran out, there was a din. And it was constant'|publisher=Irish Independent|access-date=1 June 2021|date=18 May 2020|first=Niall|last=Scully}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/decades-of-the-dubs/the-swinging-sixties-how-the-dubs-beat-the-odds-to-reclaim-sam-after-heffos-retirement-38423530.html|title=The swinging Sixties - How the Dubs beat the odds to reclaim Sam after Heffo's retirement|publisher=Irish Independent|access-date=1 June 2021|date=26 August 2019|first=Rónán|last=Mac Lochlainn}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==

Born in [[Marino, Dublin|Marino]], Behan spent nearly 40 years as an Advertising and Public Relations Executive with [[Texaco]]. He died at his home in [[Baldoyle]] on 26 January 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/106879|title=Simon Behan remembered|publisher=Hogan Stand|access-date=1 June 2021|date=12 February 2009|first=|last=}}</ref>

==Honours==

;St. Joseph's CBS
*[[Hogan Cup|All-Ireland Colleges Senior Football Championship]]: 1959
*[[Leinster Colleges Senior Football Championship]]: 1959

;St. Vincent's
*[[Dublin Senior Football Championship]]: 1962, 1964, 1967

;Dublin
*[[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship]]: [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|1963]]
*[[Leinster Senior Football Championship]]: [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Leinster Senior Football Championship|1963]]
*[[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship]]: [[1958 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|1958]], [[1959 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|1959]]
*[[Leinster Minor Football Championship]]: [[1958 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship#Leinster Minor Football Championship|1958]], [[1959 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship#Leinster Minor Football Championship|1959]]

==References==
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