Mattie Hetherton was a midfield maestro
April 07, 2021
The death has taken place of former Cavan and Munterconnaught midfielder Mattie Hetherton.
Mattie barely measured in at five foot and nine inches but he possessed a briliant pair of hands and a leap that saw him soar above many of the giant midfielders around during the seventies and eighties.
In that familiar midfield jersey Mattie Hetherton starred as both his club Munterconnaught and the parish amalgamation with Castlerahan and under the St. Mary s banner, brought the county junior and senior championships to east Cavan in 1976.
Mattie was a regular on the strong Cavan team of the late seventies and one has vivid memories of the blonde bomshell soaring through the air in Clones and other grounds of such ilk, grasping a ball he had no business being near before placing a better placed colleague.