[1] He won the Irish Professional Championship five years in succession from 1909 to 1913 before moving to England and being ineligible to compete in 1914.

Moran won born on 6 May 1886 on Bull Island, Dublin the son of Michael and Catherine (née Curley).

On the day before the international, a 36-hole stroke-play competition was arranged for the Irish and Scottish professionals, Moran winning by four strokes from Bertie Snowball.

[3] In the international, Moran won his singles match but, playing with Alfred Toogood, lost his foursomes.

[4] In the championship Moran was one of the leading 8 who qualified, through an 18-hole stroke-play contest, for the knockout match-play stage.

[6] By April 1909 Moran had returned to Royal Dublin and was sufficiently well known that an exhibition match against Irish Professional Champion James Edmundson was arranged at Dollymount.

[7] The 1909 Irish Professional Championship was played two weeks later at Royal County Down Golf Club.

[12] He also won the Irish section qualifying for the News of the World Match Play and travelled to Walton Heath in October.

A final round of 76 gave him a 10 stroke win over Michael Cahill and 23 ahead of the rest of the field.

[19] The main domestic event of 1910 was the Portmarnock Professional Tournament, played in early July.

[23][24] Moran won his third Irish Professional Championship in early June 1911 at Royal Portrush Golf Club.

A poor first round of 81 meant he missed out on the two Irish places in the Sphere and Tatler Foursomes Tournament.

[31] In the qualifying for the News of the World Match Play, Moran was involved in a three-man playoff for the one place, but missed out, as he had in 1910.

[36] Moran won the Irish section qualifying for the News of the World Match Play at Portmarnock after a playoff against Pat O'Hara.

[39] The 1913 Open Championship was held on 23 and 24 June at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake.

[42] The 1913 Irish Professional Championship was played on 31 July and 1 August at Portmarnock Golf Club.

[43] After a third round 79 O'Hare had a lead of 5 strokes from McNeill and Charlie Pope, with Moran a further shot back.

[44][45] Moran won the Irish section qualifying for the News of the World Match Play for the second successive year.

[47] The Irish section of the PGA organised a professional foursomes tournament at Royal Dublin in December 1913.

[50][51] The move did not, however, take place, Wearside appointing James MacKenzie, the professional at nearby Seaham Harbour, in early 1914.

[52] It was almost immediately announced that Moran would replace MacKenzie at Seaham Harbour, County Durham.

The Official History records that, "two companies of 7th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, posted in forward zones, suffered terribly; not a man succeeded in escaping.

[62] Since he had died in a German hospital, news of his death was delayed and it was not announced until 16 December, a month after the war had finished.