Nace O'Dowd

Ignatius Nace O'Dowd, born on 1 August 1931 and died on 16 May 1987, was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Sligo county team in the 1950s and was a member of a number of successful Railway Cup teams. In 1949 he captained a Sligo team to a Connacht Championship. He made his senior inter-county debut for Sligo while a teenager and played for the county for eleven years, and he was often tasked with marking the Galway forward Seán Purcell, who named him as one of the players he admired most in GAA football. In 1954 he played for Sligo in the Connacht final, which they narrowly lost to Galway. He lined out nine times for Connacht in the Railway Cup, helping the province to victory in 1957 and 1958, and played in teams that won four Sligo Club Championships.