Ben Tansey

Ben Tansey, who lived from 1953 to 2011, was a dual player who played senior inter-county football and hurling for two different counties, Roscommon and Meath. The son of Bernard Tansey and Kathleen Glynn of Ballyforan, County Roscommon, he began with the local clubs Four Roads and St Aidan's, played minor and under-21 football and hurling for Roscommon, and joined the Garda Siochana in 1973. With Roscommon he won a Connacht Senior Football Championship in 1978 and an All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship in 1974, and he played Railway Cup for Connacht. After moving to Navan O'Mahonys in 1979 he won seven Meath Senior Football Championship titles and two Meath Senior Hurling Championship titles, ending a 26-year club career with 15 club championship medals.