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GAA Football Team Of The Century
The Gaelic football Team of the Century was chosen in 1984 to honour the best Gaelic football players from the first 100 years of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The team was consisted of a fifteen-member side, with one Gaelic football and Hurling positions, goalkeeper, three Gaelic football and Hurling positions, half-backs, two Gaelic football and Hurling positions, midfielders, three Gaelic football and Hurling positions, half-forwards and three Gaelic football and Hurling positions, full-forwards. A team was also selected of players who had never won an All-Ireland. History The selection of the team took the form of a competition and was jointly sponsored by the ''Sunday Independent (Ireland), Sunday Independent'' and Irish Nationwide Building Society. Beginning on 17 June 1984, ''Sunday Independent'' readers were asked to submit ballot papers with their own personal selections for a team of the century. Votes were counted and collated and passed on to the official pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaelic Football
Gaelic football (; short name '')'', commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA, or football, is an Irish team sport. A form of football, it is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kicking or palming the ball into the other team's Goal (sport), goal (3 points) or between two upright posts above the goal and over a crossbar above the ground (1 point). Players advance the ball up the field with a combination of carrying, bouncing, kicking, hand-passing, and soloing (dropping the ball and then toe-kicking the ball upward into the hands). In the game, two types of scores are possible: points and goals. A point is awarded for kicking or hand-passing the ball over the crossbar, signalled by the umpire raising a white flag. Two points are awarded if the ball is kicked over the crossbar from a 40 metre range marked by a D-shaped arc, signalled by the umpire raising an orange flag. A goal is awarded for kicking the ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Mangan
Jack Mangan (6 May 1927 – 17 September 2013) was an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played as a goalkeeper for the Galway senior team. Mangan is regarded as one of Galway's greatest-ever goalkeepers. He made his debut for the team during the 1948 and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement due to injury a decade later. During that time he won one All-Ireland winners' medal and four Connacht winners' medals. In 1956 he captained the side to the All-Ireland title. At club level Mangan enjoyed a successful career with Tuam Stars in Galway and Ballymun Kickhams Ballymun Kickhams ( Irish: ''Ciceam Bhaile Munna'' ) is a GAA club in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. The club has a clubhouse and its home pitch, ''Pairc Ciceam'', just off the Ballymun (junction 4) exit of the M50. Ballymun also has a full size ... in Dublin. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mangan, Jack 1927 births 2013 deaths Tuam Stars Gaelic footballers Galway inter-county Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Keohane
Joseph Nicholas Keohane (18 August 1918 – 5 January 1988) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and former player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned thirteen seasons from 1936 to 1948. Army career Keohane spent time braced in Renmore Barracks (Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa) in Galway. Underage career Keohane made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected on the Kerry minor team in 1936. He played one championship season with the minor team, and ended his tenure in this grade as an All-Ireland runner-up. Senior career Keohane won his third Munster title in a row thanks to a big 4–14 to 0–06 win. For the second season in a row, Keohane and co faced Leinster champions Laois in the All-Ireland semi-final. It was another close game but the Kingdom came out on the right side of a 2–06 to 2–04 scoreline. In the final Kerry faced Galway. Like the year before the sides ended lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Barrett
Joe Barrett (17 July 1902 – 2 June 1952) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Austin Stack's and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1923 until 1933. Barrett captained Kerry to the All-Ireland titles of 1929 and 1932. Biography Joe Barrett was born in Tralee in 1902. The third of five sons and six daughters, his father, John Barrett (1858–1915), was a well known pig and cattle dealer while his mother, Nora O’Mahony, hailed from Ballyduff. The influences in his family home were strongly Roman Catholic and nationalist. It were these views that shaped his outlook in his adulthood. Barrett received a brief national school education, however, in 1915 he followed his older brother, Christy, into the family business. World War I was raging at the time and the export of bacon and other meats created a huge demand which kept the Barrett's gainfully employed through their agency for the two local bacon factories. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Prendergast (Gaelic Footballer)
Patrick Prendergast (1926 – 26 September 2021) was a Gaelic footballer. At club level, he played with Dungloe and Ballintubber and was a member of the Donegal and Mayo senior football teams. He usually lined out as a full-back. Playing career Although born in Ballintubber, County Mayo, Prendergast first came to prominence with the Dungloe club in County Donegal. His performances at club level earned a call-up to the Donegal senior football team. After a number of years with Donegal, Prendergast declared for the Mayo senior football team in 1948. His debut season with his native county saw him win the first of four consecutive Connacht Championship titles, however, the season ended with an All-Ireland final defeat by Cavan. Prendergast lined out at full-back when Mayo won back-to-back All-Ireland Championship titles after defeats of Louth in 1950 and Meath in 1951. He continued to line out with the team until 1956, by which time he had claimed a fifth Connacht Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gay O'Driscoll
Denis Gabriel "Gay" O'Driscoll (born 1946) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. His championship career at senior level with the Dublin county team spanned thirteen seasons from 1966 until 1979. Born in West Cork, O'Driscoll was the son of a Royal Navy serviceman. He moved with his family to Marino in Dublin at an early age where he attended Scoil Mhuire and St Joseph's Secondary School in Fairview. O'Driscoll first played competitive football with the St Vincent's club and had much success in a career which spanned three decades. The highlight of his club career was in 1976 when he won an All-Ireland medal with the club. O'Driscoll also won two Leinster medals and ten county senior championship medals. O'Driscoll first appeared on the inter-county scene as a hurler at minor and under-21 levels with Dublin. An All-Ireland runner-up in the under-21 grade in 1967, he enjoyed an eight-year career with the Dublin senior team. In spite of never having played minor or under-2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Deenihan
Jimmy Deenihan (born 11 September 1952) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for the Diaspora from 2014 to 2016, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht from 2011 to 2014 and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry from 1994 to 1997. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 2016. He was a Senator from 1983 to 1987, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. Deenihan played Gaelic football for the Kerry county team in the 1970s and 1980s. He also played rugby with Garryowen. Early and private life Deenihan was born in Finuge, Lixnaw, County Kerry, in 1952. He was educated at St Michael's College, Listowel and later at the Thomond College of Education in Limerick. He also spent time in college in the UK. He is married to Mary, daughter of former Kerry footballer John Dowling, who is a teacher of history and economics in Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk. Football career Club Deenihan had much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome O'Shea
Jerome O'Shea (1931 – 6 December 2018) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played as a right corner-back for club side St Mary's, divisional side South Kerry, at inter-county level with the Kerry senior football team and at inter-provincial level with Munster. He was the father of Irish rugby union coach and former international rugby player Conor O'Shea. Playing career Cahersiveen CBS O'Shea first came to prominence as a Gaelic footballer with Cahersiveen CBS. He won back-to-back Dunloe Cup titles in 1946 and 1947 following successive defeats of Tralee CBS. South Kerry On 9 October 1955, O'Shea captained the South Kerry senior team from centre-back in the county final against North Kerry. A last-minute Mick O'Dwyer point secured a draw with the replay taking place three weeks later. A 2–05 to 0–09 victory secured a first County Championship medal for O'Shea. O'Shea won a second championship medal on 13 October 1956 after a 1–11 to 0–10 defeat of Kerins O'R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Beggs
Robert Beggs (25 February 1911 – 7 May 1993) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club sides Skerries Harps and Wolfe Tones and at inter-county level with the Dublin and Galway senior football teams. Career Beggs first came to prominence as a Gaelic footballer on the Dublin senior team that lost the 1934 All-Ireland final to Galway. A short time after this defeat, he took up employment in Galway and transferred his football allegiance. Beggs's seven seasons with the Galway senior team yielded a National League title, three Connacht Championship medals and All-Ireland success after a defeat of Kerry in the 1938 final. He also enjoyed club success with the Wolfe Tones club and won two County Championship titles. After returning to Dublin, Beggs once again lined out with his native county and claimed a second All-Ireland winners' medal in 1942 at the expense of his former team. He also secured Railway Cup medals with both Leinster and Connacht. Personal life and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Myers (Gaelic Footballer)
Billy Myers (13 April 1916 – 31 August 1963) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Dr. Crokes and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1937 until 1943. In a brief senior inter-county career, Myers won almost every honour in the game at senior level. He won four All-Ireland medals, five Munster medals, and one Railway Cup medals with Munster Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor .... References 1916 births 1963 deaths Dr Crokes Gaelic footballers Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers {{Kerry-gaelic-football-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forde (Gaelic Footballer)
John Forde (1920 – 18 April 2010) was an Irish sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local clubs Ardnaree and Ballina Stephenites Ballina Stephenites is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Ballina area in County Mayo, Ireland. They are the most successful club in Mayo and fourth most successful in Ireland based on trophy amount. History The Ballina Stephenit ... and was a member of the senior Mayo county team from 1949 until 1955. References 1920 births 2010 deaths Ardnaree Gaelic footballers Ballina Stephenites Gaelic footballers Gaelic football backs Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Mayo-gaelic-football-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enda Colleran
Enda Colleran (May 1942 – 8 April 2004) was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played for the Mountbellew–Moylough club and at senior level for the Galway county team. Career A native of Moylough, Colleran's Gaelic football prowess was first noticed on the national stage in 1960 when he won an All-Ireland Minor Championship medal with Galway and a Hogan Cup medal with St Jarlath's College. Having made his Galway senior debut in 1961, he went on to play in four successive All-Ireland senior finals between 1963 and 1966, winning the latter three against Kerry (twice) and Meath. Colleran also picked up two Sigerson Cup medals with University College Galway and became only the fourth Connacht man to captain his province to Railway Cup success when they beat Ulster in the 1967 final. A brief spell as a rugby union player with Corinthians was followed by Colleran taking over as manager of the Galway senior team, winning a Connacht Championship title in 1976. His ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
