Martin Furlong, born in Tullamore, County Offaly, on 14 September 1946, is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tullamore and was the first-choice goalkeeper at senior level on the Offaly county team from 1966 until 1985. He is the only Offaly player to have won three All-Ireland SFC medals, in 1971, 1972 and 1982, and he also won an All-Ireland Minor Football Championship in 1964. He won the Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1982 after Offaly's All-Ireland win. In 1989 he moved from Clonminch, Tullamore, to America at the request of his older brother Tom, to assist him in running his bar, and he continues to live in New York. He was interviewed from there for the documentary Players of the Faithful.
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is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tullamore and was the first-choice goalkeeper at senior level on the Offaly county team from 1966 until 1985
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Furlong is the only Offaly player to have won three All-Ireland SFC medals in 1971, 1972 and 1982
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is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tullamore and was the first-choice goalkeeper at senior level on the Offaly county team from 1966 until 1985
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is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tullamore and was the first-choice goalkeeper at senior level on the Offaly county team from 1966 until 1985
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is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Tullamore and was the first-choice goalkeeper at senior level on the Offaly county team from 1966 until 1985
Competed In: All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Lead, championship
Furlong is the only Offaly player to have won three All-Ireland SFC medals in 1971, 1972 and 1982
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