Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin was an Irish journalist, broadcaster and sportsman, born on 12 May 1923 in Newcastle West, County Limerick, and raised in Fairview, Dublin. He played Gaelic football and hurling for the Eoghan Ruadh club and represented Dublin in hurling from 1943 to 1953, playing in the 1948 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final, where he scored a goal, and in the 1945-46 National Hurling League final. He won three Leinster senior hurling titles, in 1944, 1948 and 1952. In 1953 he took over from his father the Sunday night RTÉ radio programme Gaelic Sports Results, which ran until he retired from it in 2011 and was described as the longest running continuously broadcast radio feature in the world. He also wrote books on Gaelic games and died on 17 February 2013, aged 89.