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Tyrone and St Enda’s legend Thady Turbett passes away Posted: 10:18 pm July 4, 2021
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FORMER Tyrone and St Enda’s goalkeeper Thady Turbett has died at the age of 92.
Turbett had a long and successful playing career from the forties through to the sixties and was in goals when Tyrone won their first Ulster senior titles in 1956 and 1957. He was widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation.
As a fresh-faced 18 year old, Turbett was Omagh St Enda’s goalkeeper when they won their historic first ever Tyrone Senior Championship title in 1948.
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The names Flynn and McGarty were inextricably linked in the annals of Leitrim GAA history and the McGarty family paid a warm tribute to their father s great fri.
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Waterford hurling great Austin Flynn has died.
The Abbeyside man starred at full-back as the Déise lifted the Liam McCarthy in 1959 following a famous replay win over Kilkenny in Croke Park.
In a career that spanned 1952 to 1967 Austin won the first Waterford Hurler of the Year Award in 1967 and was selected at full back on the Waterford Team of the Millennium.
He also won three Munster titles, two Railway Cups and a National League.
However, although he played in four senior county finals with his club, Abbeyside, they were defeated on each occasion by Mount Sion.
Renowned as one of the best full-backs of that era, Flynn marked many of the game’s greats, such as Nickey Rackard, Liam Devaney, and Christy Ring.
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The Leitrim Junior team pictured before the 1952 All-Ireland Junior Football Final which they lost to Meath );
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The Leitrim Junior team pictured before the 1952 All-Ireland Junior Football Final which they lost to Meath. Back row, left to right, Leo McAlinden (Cloone), Pat Curran (Aughawillan), Columba Cryan (Ballinamore), Kieran Shanley (Bornacoola), Aloysius Blessing (Aughavas), Michael Beirne (Kiltubrid), Jimmy McKeon (Fenagh), Eugene Boland (Bornacoola. Front row, left to right, Frank Quinn (Cloone), Packie McGarty (Mohill), Brian Sweeney (Ballinamore), Joe Bohan (Gortletteragh), Pat Reilly (Aughawillan), John Gordon (Mohill), Tony Hayden (Bornacoola)