Managerial Career
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Following a great inter-county career with Dublin, he became manager of the senior inter-county team in late 1973. The era was dominated by the intense rivalry between Dublin and Kerry. In his first championship season in charge he guided ‘the Dubs’ to their first Leinster and All-Ireland titles since 1963. Following the completion of the championship Heffernan became the only non-player to be nominated Texaco Footballer of the Year. In 1975 Dublin captured a second consecutive Leinster title; however, a young Kerry team caught Heffernan's teams in a complacent mood in the subsequent All-Ireland final. Dublin bounced back the following year to win the National League as well as a third Leinster title in-a-row before going on to defeat Kerry in the All-Ireland final.
Following this victory Heffernan unexpectedly resigned as manger of Dublin, being replaced by Tony Hanahoe who acted as player-captain-manager. Heffernan returned as manager in 1979 but, after claiming a sixth consecutive Leinster title, lost out to Kerry in the All-Ireland final. Much of the Dublin team fell by the wayside after 1980 but Heffernan built a new team centred around midfield stalwart Brian Mullins and, in another memorable match remembered mainly for its unsporting conduct, a twelve-man Dublin team to victory over a fourteen-man Galway in the All-Ireland Final of 1983. Played in atrocious conditions the referee sent off four players, three of which were from Dublin, and their win saw the team being dubbed ‘the twelve apostles’.
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