Joe McTeague

Joseph McTeague, known as Joe McTeague, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer born in 1946. At club level he played with Ballyteague, and he was also a member of the Kildare senior football team. His first success came in 1964, when he won a Kildare Minor Football Championship title with St Mary's. He then moved up to adult football with Ballyteague and won a Kildare Junior A Football Championship medal in 1972, followed by a Kildare Intermediate Football Championship medal in 1973. He also lined out when Ballyteague were beaten by Carbury in the 1974 Kildare Senior Football Championship final. At inter-county level he was part of the Kildare side that won consecutive Leinster Under-21 Football Championship titles, in 1965 and 1966, and the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 1965. He later spent a decade with the Kildare senior team, which lost four Leinster Senior Football Championship finals between 1966 and 1976.