[1] Born in Ogonnelloe, County Clare, he won two Fitzgibbon Cup medals with UCD and also hurled in Clare, Galway and Limerick.
He was a medical doctor and was Master of Dublin's Coombe Hospital from 1957 to 1963.
[2] He served as vice-chairman of Dublin county committee for many years and in 1954 became the only non-Leinster man to chair the Leinster Council.
He was also a prominent hurling referee who took charge of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Cork and Antrim.
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