Éamonn Young

Edward D. Young, known as Éamonn Young, was born on 7 August 1921 and died on 3 August 2007. He was an Irish Gaelic football player, trainer and selector. Throughout a club career that spanned over 25 years he played for several clubs in Cork and experienced championship success in different grades with Dohenys, Glen Rovers and Collins. At inter-county level he was midfield partner to Fachtna O'Donovan on the Cork senior football team that won the 1945 All-Ireland Championship, having earlier won the first of four Munster Championship medals, and he ended his career with a National League title as team captain. He was a regular for Munster for the best part of a decade and won three Railway Cup medals, and his inter-county career was followed by several periods as a team trainer and selector.