[1] His father, also called Benny Gaughran, was a professional soccer player during the 1930s and played for Bohemians, Celtic, Southampton, Sunderland, Rochdale and Dundalk.

[3] Even before he became a Louth Minor, he trained assiduously and strengthened his body on a daily basis with a nightly regime of press-ups and situps.

[4] Benny played for the UCD team which defeated Clanna Gael from Armagh in the All-Ireland club final in a replay in 1974.

[8] Eugene McGee - Gaughran's manager for many years whilst playing for UCD - regarded him as one of the most dedicated players he had ever encountered.

[9] Donal McAnallen regarded Benny as one of the most prolific scorers and dedicated university players of the century.

In 1967, he had the honour of captaining the team which played against "The Galahs" who were visiting Ireland for the first time as part of their first world tour.

[2] Within weeks of this, he left UCD and joined Civil Service in 1974 and won his third Dublin Senior Football Championship title with them in 1980.

[2] To the surprise of Gaughran, he was not selected for the Championship campaign in 1979, but made a return for the county in the 1983, attracting much media attention.

[11] In fact, in the 1970s they played and lost to three subsequent All-Ireland Champions - all three games hard and close - against Offaly, Meath & Dublin.

Notably, beating Kerry the then All-Ireland Champions in the late 1960s in the National Football League which sent the crowd wild and carried the team off the pitch.

His father, also called Benny Gaughran, was a professional soccer player during the 1930s and played for Bohemians, Celtic, Southampton, Sunderland, Rochdale and Dundalk.

[14] And coincidentally, Benny's son, Bernard, lost to Geraldines in the 2013 Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship final after a replay playing for Naomh Olaf (Dublin).