He allowed Dublin player Éamonn Breslin's header into the goal at the Canal End of Croke Park twenty minutes into a National League game against Laois in 1964; this was the first header scored at Croker.
[2] He referred the famous 1978 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final when Mikey Sheehy lobbed the goalie.
[1][4] He oversaw the managerial appointments of Mick O'Dwyer and Dermot Earley Snr, and then the reappointment of O'Dwyer in advance of the county's appearance in the 1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
[1] He ran for the position of President of the Gaelic Athletic Association, finishing as runner-up to Seán Kelly.
[6][7] Aldridge attended De La Salle and St Joseph's Academy (both in the town of Kildare) for his primary and secondary education respectively.