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The glory days: Seán Cleary recalls his great GAA playing career

Mullingar resident was member of famous Galway football team that won three All-Ireland’s

By Topic.ie
Left: Seán Cleary, winner of three All-Ireland senior football medals with Galway, pictured at home in his garden on the Lynn Road, Mullingar. Right: The Galway senior football team that defeated Meath in the All-Ireland final of 1966 to complete the famous three in a row. Back row from left; Seamus Layden, Noel Tierney, Sean Meade, Mattie McDonagh, Liam Sammon, John Keenan and John ‘Bosco’ McDermott. Front row from left; Seán Cleary, Colie McDonagh, Cyril Dunne, Martin Newell, Enda Colleran (capt.), Johnny Geraghty, Jimmy Duggan and Pat Donnellan.

By Seán O’Domhnaill

There aren’t many All-Ireland senior football medal winners living in Westmeath, even fewer are living in Mullingar, but this week Topic caught up with one man who has been living in Mullingar for many years and has three All-Ireland senior football medals.

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