Jimmy Lavin

Jimmy Lavin, whose full name was James Lavin, was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler born in 1928 who died on 5 September 2020. At club level he played with St Vincent's, and at senior level he was a two-time National League winner with the Dublin county football team. Born in Dublin and educated at O'Connell Schools, he played in the Dr Croke Cup in 1946 and had already joined the Dublin minor team as a dual player, winning back-to-back All-Ireland minor titles, as a hurler in 1945 and as a footballer in 1946. He was drafted onto the Dublin senior team in 1949 and over the next eight years won two National Football League medals and a Leinster Championship medal. With St Vincent's he won ten Dublin County Championships between 1949 and 1959.