Editing Colin Healy (section)

==Club career==
===Early career===
Healy played local soccer with Ballincollig and then Wilton United. He attended the FAS/[[Football Association of Ireland|FAI]] course in Cork run by former [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] and [[Cork City Football Club|Cork City]] midfielder [[Mike Conroy (footballer born 1957)|Mike Conroy]] and from here he was taken to [[Celtic Park]]. He would go on to score three goals for Celtic, his first coming in a league game against Dundee in February 2000.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/scottish_premier/640513.stm |title=Dens Park relief for Dalglish |publisher=BBC |date=12 February 2000 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref> His other two goals came in [[Scottish League Cup]] ties against Hearts and Stirling Albion.<ref>{{cite web | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/scotland/1000778.stm | title= Celtic youngsters see them through |publisher=BBC Sport | date = 1 November 2000 |access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/1640599.stm |title=Celts' Maloney mauls Albion |publisher=BBC Sport |date=6 November 2001 |access-date=19 April 2020}}</ref> With Celtic he won a Scottish League Cup medal, playing in the team that beat Kilmarnock 3–0 at Hampden on 18 March 2001.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/cis_ins_cup/1226569.stm|title=Celtic clinch Cup with Larsson treble |publisher=BBC |date=18 March 2001 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref>

===Sunderland===
[[Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]] signed Healy from Celtic in 2003. In December 2003 he broke his leg in a match against a former loan club, [[Coventry City F.C.|Coventry City]] after a challenge by [[Morocco national football team|Moroccan international]] [[Youssef Safri]].

In October 2004, he broke his leg again soon after resuming training with Sunderland, after a tackle from then manager Mick McCarthy. In January 2006, it was announced that Healy's contract with Sunderland had expired, and the midfielder left the club.

===Livingston and Barnsley===
Healy joined [[Scottish Premier League|SPL]] club [[Livingston F.C.|Livingston]] on 10 March 2006 until the end of the season. On 10 August 2006 Healy signed a one-year contract with [[Barnsley F.C.|Barnsley]]. Having made only 10 appearances for Barnsley, he had his contract cancelled by mutual consent.

===Cork City and FIFA case===
On 20 February 2007 he signed a two-year contract with hometown [[League of Ireland]] club [[Cork City Football Club|Cork City]], alongside former international colleague [[Gareth Farrelly]]. FIFA ruled both players to be unable to play for the club, citing a rule forbidding players from transferring between clubs more than twice in a 12-month period between July and June. [[FIFA]] rejected appeals made by both players. On 1 July 2007 both Healy and Gareth Farrelly became eligible to play for Cork City. On this date, they both played for the club's under-21 team against Lifford of Ennis, Co Clare, winning the game 2–0.

Healy made his full Cork City debut against [[Bohemian F.C.|Bohemians]] when they were beaten in extra time in the Eircom League Cup Quarter Final held at [[Dalymount Park]] on 3 July 2007.

Healy signed a two-year contract for Cork in 2009. In April 2009, Healy scored his first goal for Cork at [[Tallaght Stadium]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/news/34-2009-match-reports/607-report-rovers-1-cork-city-1|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120910200922/http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/news/34-2009-match-reports/607-report-rovers-1-cork-city-1|url-status=dead|title=Match report – Healy's first Goal for Cork|archive-date=10 September 2012|access-date=30 October 2021}}</ref>

===Ipswich Town===
On 16 July 2009, it was confirmed that Cork City had accepted a [[Pound sterling|£]]100,000 bid from [[Hartlepool United]] to take Healy and fellow [[Cork City]] teammate [[Denis Behan]] to [[Victoria Park, Hartlepool]]. However, five days later, [[Hartlepool United]] manager [[Chris Turner (footballer born 1958)|Chris Turner]] confirmed that the deal had not happened due to late interest from [[Ipswich Town]]. Healy subsequently signed for Ipswich for an undisclosed fee. In January 2010, he signed on-loan with [[Scottish Premier League]] club [[Falkirk F.C.|Falkirk]].<ref>{{Cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/f/falkirk/8454021.stm| title = Falkirk sign Ipswich Town's Colin Healy | publisher = BBC Sport| date = 13 January 2010| access-date = 13 January 2010}}</ref> At Falkirk he scored once against [[Aberdeen F.C.|Aberdeen]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/8493138.stm |title=Aberdeen 0 - 1 Falkirk |publisher=BBC |date=2 February 2010 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref>

Returning to Ipswich from the on-loan spell in Scotland, during the League Cup Semi-Final 2011 first leg win by Ipswich Town over Arsenal,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/league_cup/9342035.stm|title = Ipswich 1-0 Arsenal|date = 12 January 2011}}</ref> it was commented that  "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.twtd.co.uk/members/chrisswailes/polls/3480/who-said-andquot;colin-healy-made-cesc-fabregas-look-like-colin-healyandquot;|title = Ipswich Town|website=Twtd.co.uk}}</ref> In February 2011 Healy scored his first goal for Ipswich against [[Doncaster Rovers F.C.|Doncaster Rovers]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9395076.stm |title=Doncaster 0 - 6 Ipswich |publisher=BBC |date=15 February 2011 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref> His contract was terminated by mutual consent in November 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=HEALY LEAVES TOWN |url=http://www.itfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10272~2525643,00.html |work=Ipswich Town |access-date=24 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125231326/http://www.itfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0%2C%2C10272~2525643%2C00.html |archivedate=25 November 2011 }}</ref>

===Return to Cork City===
In 2013, Healy returned to [[Cork City F.C.|Cork City]] on a three-year deal. His most memorable moment came against [[St Patrick's Athletic F.C.|St Patrick's Athletic]] in 2014 when he scored a late over head kick against a fellow title rival. He and Cork finished runners up behind [[Dundalk F.C.|Dundalk]] for three years in a row and Healy lost the 2015 [[FAI Cup]] to Dundalk before finally winning a trophy in March 2016 in the Presidents Cup and the 2016 FAI Cup final where he came off the bench. He retired from playing in April 2017.