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Joe McDonagh

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Joe McDonagh, known in Irish as Seosamh Mac Donnchadha, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic games administrator, born in Tuam, County Galway, in 1953 and died in 2016. He played club hurling for Ballinderreen and inter-county hurling for Galway, making his senior debut in the 1972-73 league and playing 15 championship games before retiring after 1983. He won an All-Ireland under-21 medal, a National League medal, a Fitzgibbon Cup with University College Galway and two Railway Cup medals with Connacht, and he collected an All-Ireland medal as a non-playing substitute in 1980, when he sang The West's Awake from the Hogan Stand. He later served as the 32nd president of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 1997 to 2000, and the Joe McDonagh Cup is named after him.

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Birth Year
1953 1
Medals or Titles Band
1 1
Titles
1 1
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Competed In

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Competitions
Source Joe McDonagh (Wikipedia)

On The Roster Of

Galway county hurling team, Teams and Clubs
Source Joe McDonagh (Wikipedia)

Plays

Hurling, Sports
Source Joe McDonagh (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Ireland

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was an Irish hurler and, later, Gaelic games administrator
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1. Joe McDonagh (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, birth
    Seosamh Mac Donnchadha) (November 1953
  • Article text, All-Ireland titles
    won one All-Ireland medal as a non-playing substitute in 1980
  • Article text, honours band from All-Ireland titles
    won one All-Ireland medal as a non-playing substitute in 1980
  • Lead, nationality
    was an Irish hurler and, later, Gaelic games administrator
  • Plays: Hurling, Lead
    was an Irish hurler and, later, Gaelic games administrator
  • Competed In: All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Article text, All-Ireland championship
    won one All-Ireland medal as a non-playing substitute in 1980
  • On The Roster Of: Galway county hurling team, Lead, county team
    He played hurling with his club Ballinderreen and the Galway senior team
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