Seán Boylan (born 12 December 1949) is an Irish former Gaelic football manager from Dunboyne, County Meath. He retired from his position as manager of the senior Meath county team on the evening of 31 August 2005 after twenty-three years in charge. This was an inter-county managerial record with one team that was only surpassed in Gaelic games by Brian Cody in 2022, his 24th and last season as manager of the Kilkenny senior hurling team. During his time with Meath, he managed the team to: the Centenary Cup; eight Leinster Senior Football Championship titles; four All-Ireland Senior Football Championship titles (1987, 1988, 1996, 1999); three National Football League titles. He also managed the Meath county hurling team, whom he also played with for 21 years. He managed Ireland in the 2006 and 2008 International Rules Series. On 6 August 2020, a documentary called Sean aired on RTÉ about Boylan's life on and off the pitch. Gaelic games In recognition of his services to Meath GAA and his services to Meath as a county, Boylan was conferred as Freeman of the County of Meath – the first (and only) person ever to be bestowed with the title – on 23 April 2006. He was entered into the GAA Hall of Fame for his services to Meath football at a ceremony after Meath's Leinster Minor Football Championship victory over Offaly in Croke Park on 16 July 2006. In August 2006, he was once again nominated for the role of Meath senior hurling team manager, the position he originally expected to have been nominated for when he ended up as Meath's inter-county football manager. He has also been involved with UCD in the Sigerson Cup and was announced as part of Conor Laverty's Down under-20 backroom team in December 2020. In 2011, he was ratified as Meath's Director of Football, representing the Meath Co Committee in the sport's development at all levels and having a role in appointing all managers of county teams. After Colm O'Rourke was appointed as Meath senior manager in 2022, he wrote that Boylan "will have open access to the team as adviser, counsellor, motivator or whatever else he wants to be". Managerial statistics All-Ireland Senior Football Championship record as Meath manager. Honours Manager Meath All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (4): 1987, 1988, 1996, 1999 Leinster Senior Football Championship (8): 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001 National