Dave Creedon

Dave Creedon, who lived from 1 August 1919 to 11 March 2007, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career with the Cork senior team spanned seventeen years from 1938 to 1955. Born near Blackpool in Cork, he first played competitive hurling at the North Monastery, then joined Glen Rovers, with whom in a club career spanning three decades he won nine county senior championship medals, captaining the team once, and he won three county senior football medals with the Glen's sister club St. Nicholas'. He finished his club career with Nemo Rangers. He debuted on the Cork minor panel at sixteen, was added to the junior team and won two Munster medals and one All-Ireland medal in that grade, joined the senior panel in 1938 and remained understudy to Tom Mulcahy for ten years, though he won his first All-Ireland medal in 1946. After retiring in 1949 he was coaxed back in 1952.