Dan O'Neill (Gaelic footballer)

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Daniel O'Neill (1933 - 8 January 2015) was an Irish Gaelic footballer. His league and championship career at senior level with the Mayo and Louth county teams lasted a decade from 1953 until 1963.^[1]

Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, O'Neill first played competitive Gaelic football with the Castlebar Mitchels club. He was just eighteen-years-old when he won the first of four successive county senior championship medals in 1951. O'Neill later played with numerous clubs in Louth and won a county senior championship medal in 1957 with . After rejoining the Castlebar Mitchels club in Mayo, he won a fifth county senior championship medal in 1963. O'Neill finished his club career with Fr. Griffins in Galway.

O'Neill first appeared on the inter-county scene as a member of the Mayo junior team. He won a Connacht medal in that grade in 1953, before making his senior debut during the 1953-54 league. O'Neill won a Connacht and National League medals with the team, however, a dispute with the Mayo County Board over expenses saw him walk away from the Mayo team in 1956. Shortly after this he joined the Louth senior team and won a set of All-Ireland and Leinster medals in 1957. After several years playing for Louth, O'Neill returned to Mayo and played his final game for the team in 1963.

Honours[]

Castlebar Mitchels

• Mayo Senior Football Championship (5): 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1963

Oliver Plunketts

• Louth Senior Football Championship (1): 1957

Mayo

• Ulster Senior Football Championship (1): 1955
• National Football League (1): 1953-54
• Connacht Junior Football Championship (1): 1953

Louth

• All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (1): 1957
• Leinster Senior Football Championship (1): 1957

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