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Noel Tierney

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Noel Tierney
Personal information
Irish name Nollaig Ó Tiarnaigh
Sport Gaelic football
Position Full Back
Born (1942-02-02) 2 February 1942 (age 82)
Tuam, Ireland
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Occupation Dairy farmer
Club(s)
Years Club Apps (scores)

1962–1976
Garrymore
Milltown

29 apps. (0–4)
Club titles
Galway titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County
1963–1969
Galway
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 5
All-Irelands 3
NFL 1
All Stars 2 (Cú Chulainn Award)

Noel Tierney (born 2 February 1942 in Milltown, County Galway) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for his local club Milltown and at senior level for the Galway county team that won three consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championships from 1964 until 1966 inclusive.[1]

Tierney was a member of the Galway All-Ireland Minor Football Championship winning team of 1960, a team which included a number of future three-in-a-row panelists. He won a National Football League with Galway in 1965, as well as winning two Railway Cup medals with Connacht in 1967 and again in 1969, when he captained the team.

He won two Cú Chulainn Awards (an early All Stars Award) and he also won Texaco Footballer of the Year in 1964. In 1993, he was inducted into the Galway Football Hall of Fame. He was selected at full-back on the Galway Football Team of the Millennium in 1999.

Honours

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Galway
Milltown
  • Galway North-Board Minor Football Championship : 1 (1960)
  • Galway Junior Football Championship : 1 (1961)
  • Galway Senior Football Championship : 1 (1971)
    • Runner-up : 1 (1967)
Connacht
Individual

References

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  1. ^ "Galway GAA. profile". www.hoganstand.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
Awards
Preceded by Caltex Footballer of the Year
1964
Succeeded by