Lar Foley

Lar Foley, formally Liam Foley (23 November 1938 to 4 March 2003), was a Dublin dual player who excelled at both Gaelic football and hurling in the late 1950s and 1960s. He played inter-county for Dublin and for the Dublin-based club St Vincents, and won two All-Ireland senior football medals, in 1958 and 1963, starting at corner back and later making the number three shirt his own. In 1963 he was named Texaco Footballer of the Year. For his club he collected twelve Dublin senior football championships and four Dublin senior hurling championships, and at interprovincial level he won Railway Cup hurling medals in 1962 and 1964. A cereal farmer from Kinsealy in North County Dublin, he later managed the Dublin senior hurlers between 1989 and 1993 and died at home in 2003.