- Paddy Cullen
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name =Paddy Cullen
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|Paddy Cullen is a former inter-county goalkeeper for Dublin. Cullen has won an all-star for Dublin on an amazing four occasions in 1974, 1976, 1977 and in 1979, one less than Dublin goalkeeping legend John O'Leary.
Cullen won his first of three all-Irelands when Dublin defeated Galway by a scoreline of 0-14 to 1-6 in a game in which Cullen saved a penalty. This penalty save that famously ended Galways hopes of winning the all-Ireland is ranked as number 17 in the
Top 20 GAA Moments . He won his second all-star in 1976 when Dublin defeated bitter rivals Kerry 3-8 to 0-10 in the final inCroke Park . He won his final all-Ireland in 1977 in a game where he had three goals scored against him, despite this Dublin had a comfortable 5-12 to 3-6 win over Armagh. Cullen is famously renowned for the freak incident in which he conceded a goal against Kerry in the 1978 all-Ireland final.Mikey Sheehy scored a lobbed goal for Kerry while Cullen was busy arguing with the referee.Michael O'Hehir described the incident as "the greatest freak of all time" and the goal was entered into theTop 20 GAA Moments .Paddy won two national football league medals with Dublin in 1976 against Derry and again in 1978 against Mayo. He also managed Dublin to National Football League success in 1991 and then took Dublin to the famous and epic four game first round saga against Meath which Dublin eventually lost by a point.
Paddy Cullen was inaccurately linked to the
X_Case . After a period of time, the vicious rumors became so widespread the he had to appear on theLate Late Show to set the record straight.External links
* [http://www.hill16.ie/default.asp Official Dublin Website]
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