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Paddy Healy

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Paddy Healy, born in Ballincollig on 21 July 1922 and died on 26 April 1983, was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer whose league and championship career with the Cork senior teams as a dual player lasted ten years from 1943 until 1953. He began a thirty-year club hurling and football career with the Ballincollig club, winning a junior football championship medal in 1940 before losing three successive senior hurling championship finals. He then joined the Clonakilty club, winning senior football championship medals in 1944, 1946, 1947 and 1952, and he ended his career with Ballincollig, winning a divisional football championship medal in 1964. He made his debut on the inter-county scene at twenty-one, when he was selected for the Cork senior hurling team during the 1943 championship.

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    21 July 1922
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    was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
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    was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
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    His league and championship career with the Cork senior teams as a dual player lasted ten years from 1943 until 1953
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