Charlie Gallagher

Charlie Gallagher, who lived from 25 December 1937 to 24 July 1989, was a Gaelic footballer who played for the Cootehill Celtic club and the Cavan county team. He made his Cavan debut in 1955 at the age of 17 against Sligo in the National Football League and regularly topped the national scoring charts in the 1960s. He won Ulster Senior Football Championship medals in 1962, 1964, 1967 and 1969, captaining Cavan in the last two of those years, and won four Railway Cup medals with Ulster between 1964 and 1968. He received a Cú Chulainn Award in 1964, is ranked seventh on the all-time Ulster scorers chart and was named number 94 among the 125 greatest stars of the GAA. He died by drowning near his home in Cootehill in 1989.