Joe McCleery was an Irish

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manager.

Biography

McCleery was born in

Lurgan Lurgan () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and roughly southwest of Belfast. The town is linked to Belfast by both the M1 motorway (Northern Ireland), M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin rail ...

around 1884. He was the first manager of

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upon their entry into the Irish League in 1929. Prior to this he had been manager of

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. McCleery died in Lurgan in October 1957 at age 73.

References

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