Jack Lynch

Jack Lynch, who lived from 15 August 1917 to 20 October 1999, is best known as an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979, but before his political career he had a successful sporting career as a dual player of Gaelic games. He played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and with the Cork senior inter-county team from 1936 until 1950, and football with St Nicholas' and the Cork senior inter-county team from 1936 until 1946. In a senior inter-county hurling career lasting fourteen years he won five All-Ireland titles, seven Munster titles, three National Hurling League titles and seven Railway Cup titles, and in ten years of senior inter-county football he won one All-Ireland title, two Munster titles and one Railway Cup title. He was later named at midfield on the Hurling Team of the Century and the Hurling Team of the Millennium.