Brendan Lynch (Kerry Gaelic footballer)

Brendan Lynch, born in 1949 in Beaufort, County Kerry, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who also played hurling. He played club football with Beaufort and was a member of the Kerry senior inter-county team from 1968 until 1976. As a teenager he won a Munster Minor Football Championship medal and later Munster Under-21 and Junior titles and an All-Ireland Junior medal. At senior level he hit four points in his first Munster final and played in All-Ireland finals in 1968, 1969 and 1970 and in the drawn 1972 final, when he scored 1-7 against Offaly. He won National Football League medals with Kerry and, at 25, was the oldest player on the All-Ireland winning team of 1975.