The St Vincent’s clubman enjoyed a successful career at club, county and provincial levels in both codes, in the process guaranteeing himself a permanent place in GAA folklore.
A GAA immortal in every sense of the term, the brilliant dual player was at his prime in the ’60s but his extraordinary career also stretched well into the preceding and succeeding decades.
Like his brother Des and many other St Vincent’s players of that era, he was also already widely acclaimed as a dual-coder of exceptional ability.
Both brothers featured (Lar at left corner back) in the 1961 All-Ireland Final when Dublin came agonisingly close to toppling a star-studded Tipperary side, losing by a single point, on a scoreline of 0-16 to 1-12.
He wore the No.4 jersey in three successive Railway Cup hurling finals, 1962–64, collecting winners medals in 1962 and 1964[2] but losing narrowly to Munster after a replay in the intervening year’s showpiece.