Joe Young (dual player)

Joseph Young was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer, born on 15 November 1933 and died on 6 May 2023, who played both codes as a dual player. At club level he lined out with St. Vincent's in Dublin and later with An Chéad Cath in Galway, and he won Dublin senior hurling titles in 1953 and 1954 and a Dublin senior football title in 1954, completing a hurling and football double in that year. At inter-county level he won an All-Ireland junior hurling medal with Dublin in 1952, spent several years with the Dublin senior hurling team and then moved to Galway, where he suffered All-Ireland hurling final defeats against Wexford in 1955 and Tipperary in 1958. As a Gaelic footballer with Galway he won six consecutive Connacht senior medals and an All-Ireland senior football medal. Born in Donnycarney, he was commissioned into the Infantry Corps of the Defence Forces in 1954.