Tadhg Lyne

Tadhgie Lyne (8 December 1930 to 31 May 2000) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for Kerry and was known as the Prince of Forwards, regarded as one of the finest scoring forwards of his time. He grew up on High Street in Killarney, half a mile from Fitzgerald Stadium, and honed his skills with a ball hung from the rafters of his father's house. His county career began after his club, the Dick Fitzgeralds, won the 1951 Kerry Senior Football Championship, and he was a fixture in the Kerry team for a decade. He won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in 1953, 1955 and 1959. The 1955 final against Dublin is remembered as Tadhgie Lyne's All-Ireland, and he finished that year as the championship's top marksman with five goals and forty-two points and was named Footballer of the Year. He also turned down an offer of a professional soccer contract with Glasgow Celtic to stay with Kerry.