Martin Colfer (died 25 September 2015) was a Republic of Ireland

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international, who played with Shelbourne for seven seasons in the 1950s.

Football career

Colfer began his career with

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. From there he transferred to Shelbourne in the 1948–49 season and played 100 league games and 12 FAI Cup games between that and the 1955–56 season. He became Shelbourne's top scorer, scoring a total of 41 goals for the club and was the club's top scorer in three of the seven seasons he played for them. Dublin born Colfer was capped twice for the

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at senior level, away to Belgium in May 1950 and Norway the following year, while also winning seven inter-League caps. He was on the losing side in two

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finals with Shelbourne in 1949 and 1951 but played in the

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title winning team in the 1952–53 season."Ireland's Greatest", Dean Hayes, Appletree Press, 2006,

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