Joe Young (dual player)

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Joe Young (dual player) - Wikipedia

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Joe Young
Personal information
Sport	Dual player
Football Position:	Centre-forward
Hurling Position:	Right wing-forward
Born	(1933-11-15)15 November 1933 Donnycarney, Dublin, Irish Free State
Died	6 May 2023(2023-05-06) (aged 89) Barna, County Galway, Ireland
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Occupation	Army officer
Club(s)
Years	Club
	St. Vincent's An Chéad Cath
Club titles
	Football	Hurling
Dublin titles	1	2
Inter-county(ies)
Years	County
1953–1954 1955–1958 1955–1961	Dublin (SH) Galway (SH) Galway (SF)
Inter-county titles
	Football	Hurling
Connacht Titles	6	0
All-Ireland Titles	1	0
League titles	0	0

Joseph Young (15 November 1933 – 6 May 2023) was an Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. At club level he played with St. Vincent's and An Chéad Cath, and also lined out as a dual player at inter-county level with various Dublin and Galway teams.

Career

Young first played Gaelic football and hurling as a schoolboy at St. Joseph's CBS in Fairview. He simultaneously progressed to adult level with the St. Vincent's club as a dual player and won Dublin SHC medals in 1954 before completing a SHC-SFC double in 1954. Young later lined out with An Chéad Cath in Galway.^[1]

Young first appeared on the inter-county scene at minor level with Dublin. He later progressed to the Dublin junior team and won an All-Ireland medal in that grade in 1952.^[2] Young spent a number of years with the Dublin senior hurling team before transferring to the Galway senior teams as a dual player. As a hurler, he suffered All-Ireland final defeats against Wexford in 1955 and Tipperary in 1958. As a Gaelic footballer, Young won six consecutive Connacht SFC medals. He also claimed an All-Ireland SFC medal in 1956.^[3]

Personal life and death

Born in Donnycarney, Young enlisted in the Defence Forces as a member of 27 Cadet Class and was commissioned into the Infantry Corps in 1954. He spent his early years with An Chéad Cath in Galway, before later serving in a variety of appointments throughout the Defence Forces.^[4]

Young died on 6 May 2023, at the age of 89.^[5]^[6]

Honours

St. Vincent's

Dublin Senior Football Championship: 1954
Dublin Senior Hurling Championship: 1953, 1954

Dublin

Galway

References

^ "Pen Pictures of the Men Who Will Don the Galway Jerseys". Connacht Tribune. 6 October 1956. Archived from the original on 6 January 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Leinster Junior All-Ireland Hurling Winning Teams" (PDF). Leinster GAA website. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Galway profile". Hogan Stand. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Col Joe Young RIP". ARCO Ireland website. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Galway football mourns All-Ireland winner Joe Young". Irish Examiner. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
^ "Former Galway All-Ireland winner Joe Young dies aged 90". RTÉ News. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 8 May 2023.

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v t e Dublin – 1952 All-Ireland Junior Hurling Champions (3rd title)
1 S. Murphy 2 J. Duggan 3 W. Holmes 4 J. Young 5 J. Manton 6 C. Hayes 7 D. Kelly 8 L. Skelly (c) 9 L. Harding 10 R. Rogers 11 T. Ryan 12 M. Ryan 13 W. Fletcher 14 W. Griffin 15 S. Daly Subs not used 16 M. McHale 17 J. Phelan 18 T. Brogan 19 T. Conroy 20 C. McLoughlin

v t e Galway – 1955 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up
1 T. Boland 2 J. Fives 3 B. Power 4 B. O'Neill 5 M. Burke 6 J. Molloy 7 T. Kelly 8 J. Salmon 9 B. Duffy 10 J. Duggan (c) 11 J. Young 12 P. Duggan 13 P. Egan 14 J. Burke 15 T. Sweeney Subs used 20 H. Gordon for B. Power 16 M. Elwood for T. Sweeney Subs not used 17 M. Murphy 18 M. Cullinane 19 P. Manton

v t e Galway – 1956 All-Ireland Senior Football Champions (4th title)
1 J. Mangan (c) 2 J. Keeley 3 G. Daly 4 T. Dillon 5 J. Kissane 6 J. Mahon 7 M. Greally 8 F. Evers 9 M. McDonagh 10 J. Coyle 11 S. Purcell 12 B. O'Neill 13 J. Young 14 F. Stockwell 15 G. Kirwan Sub used A. Swords for J. Young

v t e Galway – 1958 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship runners-up
1 M. Sweeney 2 F. Spillane 3 P. Burke 4 S. Cullinane (c) 5 J. Duggan 6 J. Fives 7 F. Benson 8 J. Salmon 9 P. J. Lally 10 T. Sweeney 11 J. Young 12 T. Kelly 13 P. J. Lawless 14 B. O'Neill 15 T. Conway Subs E. Dervan for F. Spillane M. Fox for J. Young

v t e Galway – 1959 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship runners-up
1 J. Farrell 2 J. Kissane 3 S. Meade 4 M. Greally 5 M. Garrett 6 J. Mahon 7 S. Colleran 8 F. Evers 9 M. McDonagh 10 J. Young 11 S. Purcell (c) 12 M. McDonagh 13 M. Laide 14 F. Stockwell 15 J. Nallen Subs used J. Keeley for J. Nallen P. Dunne for M. Greally

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