Seánie Duggan

Infobox GAA player
code= Hurling
sport = Hurling


name = Seánie Duggan
irish = Seán Duagáin
fullname = Seánie Duggan
placeofbirth = Galway
countryofbirth = Ireland
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county = Galway
province = Connacht
club = Liam Mellows
clposition = Goalkeeper
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counties = Galway
icposition = Goalkeeper
icyears = 1943-1953
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icupdate = Seánie Duggan (born 1922 in Galway, Ireland) is a retired Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club Liam Mellows and with the Galway senior inter-county team from 1943 until 1953. Duggan is regarded as one of the greatest players never to have won an All-Ireland medal.

Playing career

Club

Duggan played his club hurling with his local Liam Mellows club and enjoyed some success. He won back-to-back county titles with the club in 1945 and 1946.

Inter-county

Duggan first came to prominence with the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1940s. Galway hurling was in the doldrums at the time. The fact that the county faced no competition in Connacht meant that Galway went straight into the All-Ireland series every single year. This was not a happy hunting ground for the county.

Duggan first tasted success with Galway in 1951. That year his side reached the finals of the National Hurling League. Galway defeated Wexford and New York to take the title.

Two years later in 1953 Galway defeated a star-studded Kilkenny team in the penultimate stage of the championship. This victory allowed Duggan's side to advance to the All-Ireland final where Cork provided the opposition. The game itself is remembered as one of the ugliest championship deciders ever and is clouded in controversy due to the injury to the Galway captain, Mick Burke. Galway lost the game by 3-3 to 0-8. After the match at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin a fight broke out when another Galway player struck Cork's Christy Ring. The following morning another fight broke out when another member of the Galway panel attempted to hit Ring. The fights, however, ended just as quickly as they had started.

This defeat brought the curtain down on Duggan's inter-county career.

Provincial

Duggan also lined out with Connacht in the inter-provincial hurling competition. He won his sole Railway Cup medal in 1947 as his side defeated Munster.

Teams

References

* Corry, Eoghan, "The GAA Book of Lists" (Hodder Headline Ireland, 2005).

External links

* [http://www.hoganstand.com/Galway/Profile.aspx Galway GAA honours]