[1] Beggs first came to prominence as a Gaelic footballer on the Dublin senior team that lost the 1934 All-Ireland final to Galway.
Beggs's seven seasons with the Galway senior team yielded a National League title, three Connacht Championship medals and All-Ireland success after a defeat of Kerry in the 1938 final.
After returning to Dublin, Beggs once again lined out with his native county and claimed a second All-Ireland winners' medal in 1942 at the expense of his former team.
Born in Skerries, County Dublin, Beggs spent his entire adult life working as a fisherman in his hometown and later in Claddagh, County Galway after moving for work before returning to Skerries.
[6] His Galway-born son, Brian Beggs, won an All-Ireland Minor Championship title with Dublin in 1958.