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He played Gaelic football with his local club Listowel Emmets and was a member of the senior Kerry county team from the 1958 until 1962. For 58 years, from 1962 until 2020, McMahon held the record for scoring the fastest goal in the history of All-Ireland SFC finals , until Dean Rock knocked more than 20 seconds off it.
As a Gaelic footballer, Jimmy Murray was a stylish and tenacious centre forward who made little of his relatively small stature to thrive in an era when physical strength was celebrated. He had outstanding leadership qualities, and even today his name is cited in Roscommon and national Gaelic Athletic Association circles as a man to be emulated.
Billy McNeill has made the most appearances for Celtic in major competitions, and also captained the side from 1963 up to his retirement from playing in 1975. McNeill went on to manage Celtic in two spells during the 1980s. Celtic Football Club (/ ˈ s ɛ l t ɪ k /) is a Scottish professional football club based in Parkhead, Glasgow.
Frank Stockwell (7 December 1928 – 9 March 2009) [1] was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tuam Stars and at senior level for the Galway, Louth and London county teams at various periods between 1949 and 1960. He is regarded as Galway's greatest-ever full forward. [citation needed]
This was a team chosen in August 1999 by a panel of GAA past presidents and journalists. [1] The goal was to single out the best ever 15 players who had played the game in their respective positions, since the foundation of the GAA in 1884 up to the Millennium year, 2000.
Gallagher regularly topped the nation’s scoring charts in the 1960s. He debut for Cavan in 1955 at the age of 17 years, against Sligo in the National Football League. He won Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1962, 1964, 1967 and 1969. He also won an Ulster Junior Football Championship medal in 1962. He was captain of Cavan in 1967 ...
Sean O'Connell (1930s – July 2003) was a Gaelic football manager and player who featured for the Derry county team in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and was on the Derry side that finished runners-up to Dublin in the 1958 All-Ireland Championship – winning an Ulster Championship with the county that year, and three more in 1970, 1975 and 1976.
Keaveney played his club football with the famous St Vincent's club in Dublin and had much success during a career that spanned two decades. [1] He first came to prominence on the club scene as a member of the senior team in the early 1960s. In 1964 Keaveney lined out in his first county championship decider.