Paul Hegarty played almost 700 senior football games. He captained the Dundee United team which won the Premier League Championship, was Club Captain of the team which beat Barcelona and Borussia Moenchen Gladbach to reach the UEFA Cup Final, and scored the goal which put his team into the 1986/87 Scottish Cup Final. He achieved eight full Scotland caps and was voted Scottish Professional Footballer of the Year.
Paul Hegarty is an author, musician, and lecturer in aesthetics at University College Cork. He performs in the noise band Safe and is involved in running the experimental music record label dotdotdotmusic.