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'''Seamus Leydon''' (1942 – 31 October 2023) was an Irish [[Gaelic footballer]] who played with his local club [[Dunmore MacHales]] and was a vital member of the [[Galway county football team|Galway]] three-in-a-row team of the 1960s.
'''Séamus Leydon''' (1942 – 31 October 2023) was an Irish [[Gaelic football]]er who played for club sides [[Dunmore McHales]] and [[Nemo Rangers GAA|Nemo Rangers]], and at inter-county level with the [[Galway senior football team]].<ref>{{cite news|url =https://www.hoganstand.com/county/galway/article/index/88755|title =Séamus Leydon |date =10 September 1993|accessdate = 31 December 2023|publisher= Hogan Stand|first=|last=}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hoganstand.com/Galway/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=88755|title = Leydon, Seamus - HoganStand}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Career==
===Schools & Minor===
1960 started with success for Leydon in the [[Hogan Cup]] All-Ireland Schools Football Championship with a 3-10 to 3-7 victory for [[St Jarlath's College]] over St Finian's College. Among Seamus' teammates on the Jarleth's team were future Galway teammates [[Johnny Geraghty]], [[Enda Colleran]] and [[Pat Donnellan]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tuamherald.ie/2010/10/25/golden-jubilee-reflections-on-one-of-galways-greatest-ever-minor-football-teams/|title=Golden Jubilee reflections on one of Galway's greatest ever Minor football teams|publisher=The Tuam Herald|date=25 October 2010|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref>


Leydon first played [[Gaelic football]] to a high standard as a student at [[St Jarlath's College]] in [[Tuam]]. He won two Connacht Colleges JFC titles and was part of the college's senior team that beat [[St Finian's College]] to win the [[Hogan Cup]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2020/05/01/st-finians-pipped-by-stellar-st-jarlaths-side-60-years-ago/|title = Sixty years since St Finian’s were pipped by stellar St Jarlath’s side|date = 1 May 2020|accessdate = 30 December 2023|publisher= Westmeath Examiner|first=Paul|last=Hughes}}</ref> Leydon's club career with [[Dunmore McHales]] also began around this time and he won his first [[Galway Senior Football Championship|Galway SFC]] medal in 1961. It was the first of five winners' medals, as Dunmore also claimed the title in 1963, 1966, 1968 and 1969.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://www.tuamherald.ie/2019/10/23/dunmore-machales-celebrate-their-kings-of-the-sixties/|title =Dunmore MacHales celebrate their Kings of the Sixties|date =23 October 2019|accessdate = 30 December 2023|publisher= The Tuam Herald|first=Billy|last=Coss}}</ref> Leydon was also part of the Dunmore team that won the inaugural [[Connacht Senior Club Football Championship|Connacht Club SFC]] title in 1966.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41020856.html|title =Dunmore MacHales come good late on to claim Connacht IFC title |date =3 December 2022|accessdate = 30 December 2023|publisher= Irish Examiner|first=Kevin|last=Egan}}</ref>
The success continued in 1960 as a star-studded Galway [[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|Minor]] team won Connacht and All-Ireland honours beating Cork 4-9 to 1-5 in a one-sided All-Ireland final.


Leydon first played for [[Galway GAA|Galway]] as a member of the the minor team in 1959. He won the first of two consecutive [[Connacht Minor Football Championship|Connacht MFC]] medals that year before winning an [[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|All-Ireland MFC]] medal after a defeat of [[Cork GAA|Cork]] in 1960.<ref>{{cite news|url =https://www.echolive.ie/corksport/arid-40305002.html|title =Recalling Cork's first All-Ireland minor football success in 1961|date =3 June 2021|accessdate = 30 December 2023|publisher= Echo Live|first=Mark|last=Woods}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tuamherald.ie/2010/10/25/golden-jubilee-reflections-on-one-of-galways-greatest-ever-minor-football-teams/|title=Golden Jubilee reflections on one of Galway's greatest ever Minor football teams|publisher=The Tuam Herald|date=25 October 2010|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref> A season with the Galway junior team yielded a [[Connacht Junior Football Championship|Connacht JFC]] medal in 1961.
===Senior===
In 1961 Leydon made his inter-county [[Galway county football team|Galway]] debut at Senior level and quickly established himself on the team. Backboned by the 1959 and 1960 minor teams (eight of whom made it through to [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|Senior]] level), Galway were a coming force.


They were defeated by Dublin in the [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|1963 All-Ireland final]] however the Corrib-siders were not to be denied. Between 1964 and 1966 they famously achieved the three-in-a-row beating Kerry in [[1964 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1964 All-Ireland final]] and [[1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1965 All-Ireland final]] and then Meath in [[1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1966 All-Ireland final]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://connachtgaa.ie/news/connacht-gaa-honour-the-galway-all-ireland-winning-three-in-a-row-team/|title=Connacht GAA Honour the Galway All Ireland Winning three in a row team|publisher=Connacht GAA website|date=21 July 2015|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.galwaygaa.ie/history/all-ireland-winning-teams|title=All-Ireland Winning Teams|publisher=Galway GAA website|date=|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.galwaycitymuseum.ie/galway-gaa-gaelic-athletic-association-football/?locale=en|title=Galway GAA: The-Three-In-A-Row|publisher=Galway Cuty Museum|date=11 September 2022|access-date=11 September 2022|first=|last=}}</ref>
After sustaining an injury which required a lengthy absence playing for the junior team, Leydon made his [[Galway senior football team|senior team]] debut in late 1961.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41297908.html|title=Remembering Seamus Leydon and the best goal ever|publisher=Irish Examiner|date=28 December 2023|access-date=31 December 2023|first=Maurice|last=Brosnan}}</ref> He won the first of four consecutive [[Connacht Senior Football Championship|Connacht SFC]] medals in 1963, while he also made the first of four consecutive [[List of All-Ireland Senior Football Championship finals|All-Ireland final]] appearances that year but lost out to [[Dublin GAA|Dublin]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/the-thing-i-most-remember-is-the-noise-from-the-second-we-ran-out-there-was-a-din-and-it-was-constant/39215787.html|title='The thing I most remember is the noise. From the second we ran out, there was a din. And it was constant'|publisher=Irish Independent|date=18 May 2020|access-date=23 December 2021|first=Niall|last=Scully}}</ref> Three successive [[All-Ireland Senior Football Championship|All-Ireland SFC]] titles followed for Leydon, beating [[Kerry GAA|Kerry]] in the finals of 1964 and 1965 and [[Meath GAA|Meath]] in the 1966 decider.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://irelandseye.ie/3-in-a-row-sean-cleary-recalls-the-glory-days-with-galway|title=3-In-A-Row Seán Cleary recalls the glory days with Galway|publisher=Ireland's Eye|date=1 May 2021|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/74121/galway-three-in-a-row-teams|title=Galway three-in-a row teams|publisher=Galway Advertiser|date=4 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hoganstand.com/article/index/215311|title=Galway's three-in-a-row team remembered|publisher=Hogan Stand|date=1 May 2014|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref> He also claimed a [[National Football League (Ireland)|National League]] title in 1965.


Leydon won three more Connacht SFC medals in 1968, 1970 and 1971, while he served as [[Captain (sport)|team captain]] in 1968. He was also a regular on the [[Connacht GAA|Connacht]] inter-provincial team for almost a decade and won [[Railway Cup]] medals in 1967 and 1969. Leydon's last big occasion for Galway was when he lined out at left corner-forward in the [[1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1971 All-Ireland final]] defeat by [[Offaly GAA|Offaly]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.uibhfhaili.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=7430|title=50 years on, how Offaly won the 1971 All-Ireland final|publisher=Uibh Fháilí website|date=|access-date=23 December 2021|first=|last=}}</ref> His performances that season earned him his only [[GAA All Stars Awards|All Star]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41291380.html|title=Madness of Football Podcast: John Keenan's tribute to Seamus Leydon and Galway's treble|date=28 December 2023|publisher=Irish Examiner|accessdate=31 December 2023|first=Maurice|last=Brosnan}}</ref>
Leydon enjoyed further success with Galway winning Connacht titles in 1968, 1970 and 1971 and making it back to the [[1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final|1971 All-Ireland final]] losing out to Offaly.


Leydon retired from inter-county football in 1972 when his job as regional sales director with [[C&C Group|Cantrell and Cochrane]] required him to move to [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. He joined the [[Nemo Rangers GAA|Nemo Rangers]] club in the city and won consecutive [[Cork Senior Football Championship|Cork SFC]] and [[Munster Senior Club Football Championship|Munster Club SFC]] titles in 1974 and 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://munster.gaa.ie/history/sfclub_teams/|title=Senior Football (Club)|date=|publisher=Munster GAA website|accessdate=30 June 2020|first=|last=}}</ref> Leydon also lined out when Nemo were beaten by [[UCD GAA|University College Dublin]] in the [[1974–75 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship#All-Ireland final|1975 All-Ireland club final]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/inclusion-of-ucd-undermines-club-championship-26027933.html|title=Inclusion of UCD undermines club championship|date=20 November 2002|publisher=Irish Independent|accessdate=30 June 2020|first=Martin|last=Breheny}}</ref>
At the time when the [[Railway Cup]] was a popular competition, Leydon was a regular on the [[Connacht]] team from 1964 to 1972. He played on both of Connacht's wins in 1967 and 1969.


===Club===
==Death==
At club level, Leydon was a central figure in the [[Dunmore MacHales]] team that emerged to dominate Galway football during the 1960s. Dubbed the Kings of the Sixties, Dunmore won five [[Galway Senior Football Championship]] titles in 1961, 63, 66, 68 (captained by Leydon) and 69. Among Seamus' teammates on the Dunmore team were Galway teammates [[John Keenan (Gaelic footballer)|John Keenan]], Tommy Keenan, [[Bosco McDermott]], [[John Donnellan]], [[Pat Donnellan]] and future Galway goalkeeper [[Gay Mitchell (Gaelic footballer)|Gay Mitchell]].


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Leydon died at St Bridget's Hospice, [[The Curragh]] on 31 October 2023, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41260315.html|title=Former Galway and Nemo Rangers stalwart Seamus Leydon passes away |date=1 November 2023|publisher=Irish Examiner|accessdate=31 December 2023|first=John|last=Fallon}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/2023/11/01/galway-three-in-a-row-star-seamus-leydon-dies-aged-81/|title=Galway three-in-a-row star Séamus Leydon dies, aged 81|date=1 November 2023|publisher=Irish Times|accessdate=31 December 2023|first=John|last=Fallon}}</ref>
Leydon retired from inter-county football in 1972 when his job with [[C&C Group|Cantrell and Cochrane]] required him to move to Cork. He joined [[Nemo Rangers]] and once again enjoyed success winning [[Cork Senior Football Championship]] and [[Munster Senior Club Football Championship|Munster]] titles in 1974 and 1975.

===Death===
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Leydon died in [[County Kildare]] on 31 October 2023, at the age of 81.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/gaelic-football/gaelic-football-news/galway-football-legend-seamus-leydon-31335742|title = Galway football legend Seamus Leydon dies aged 81|last = McCarron|first = Jamie|date = 1 November 2023|accessdate = 1 November 2023|newspaper = [[Daily Mirror|Irish Mirror]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2023/1101/1414091-galway-three-in-a-row-star-seamus-leydon-dies-aged-81/|title = Galway three-in-a-row star Seamus Leydon dies aged 81|date = 1 November 2023|accessdate = 1 November 2023|work = [[RTÉ]]}}</ref>


==Honours==
==Honours==
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*[[Connacht Senior Club Football Championship]]: 1966
*[[Connacht Senior Club Football Championship]]: 1966
*[[Galway Senior Football Championship]]:1961, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1969
*[[Galway Senior Football Championship]]: 1961, 1963, 1966, 1968 (c), 1969


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*[[Connacht Senior Football Championship]]: [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1963]], [[1964 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1964]], [[1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1965]], [[1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1966]], [[1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1968]], [[1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1970]], [[1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1971]]
*[[Connacht Senior Football Championship]]: [[1963 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1963]], [[1964 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1964]], [[1965 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1965]], [[1966 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1966]], [[1968 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1968]], [[1970 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1970]], [[1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship#Connacht Senior Football Championship|1971]]
*[[National Football League (Ireland)|National Football League]]: [[1964–65 National Football League (Ireland)|1964–65]]
*[[National Football League (Ireland)|National Football League]]: [[1964–65 National Football League (Ireland)|1964–65]]
*[[Connacht Junior Football Championship]]: [[1961 All-Ireland Junior Football Championship#Connacht Junior Football Championship|1961]]
*[[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship]]: [[1960 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|1960]]
*[[All-Ireland Minor Football Championship]]: [[1960 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship|1960]]
*[[Connacht Minor Football Championship]]: [[1960 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship#Connacht Minor Football Championship|1960]]
*[[Connacht Minor Football Championship]]: [[1959 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship#Connacht Minor Football Championship|1959]], [[1960 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship#Connacht Minor Football Championship|1960]]


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*[http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43653 Dublin win cup, newsreel, 1963]


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Séamus Leydon
Personal information
Irish name Séamus Ó Liodáin
Sport Gaelic football
Position Left wing-forward
Born 1942 (1942)
Dunmore, County Galway, Ireland
Died (aged 81)
The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Nickname The Dunmore Dynamo
Occupation Sales director
Club(s)
Years Club
1960–1972
1972–1975
 Dunmore McHales
Nemo Rangers
Club titles
Galway titles 5
Connacht titles 1
Inter-county(ies)
Years County Apps (scores)
1961–1972
 Galway 33 (9-41)
Inter-county titles
Connacht titles 7
All-Irelands 3
NFL 1
All Stars 1

Séamus Leydon (1942 – 31 October 2023) was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club sides Dunmore McHales and Nemo Rangers, and at inter-county level with the Galway senior football team.[1]

Career

Leydon first played Gaelic football to a high standard as a student at St Jarlath's College in Tuam. He won two Connacht Colleges JFC titles and was part of the college's senior team that beat St Finian's College to win the Hogan Cup in 1960.[2] Leydon's club career with Dunmore McHales also began around this time and he won his first Galway SFC medal in 1961. It was the first of five winners' medals, as Dunmore also claimed the title in 1963, 1966, 1968 and 1969.[3] Leydon was also part of the Dunmore team that won the inaugural Connacht Club SFC title in 1966.[4]

Leydon first played for Galway as a member of the the minor team in 1959. He won the first of two consecutive Connacht MFC medals that year before winning an All-Ireland MFC medal after a defeat of Cork in 1960.[5][6] A season with the Galway junior team yielded a Connacht JFC medal in 1961.

After sustaining an injury which required a lengthy absence playing for the junior team, Leydon made his senior team debut in late 1961.[7] He won the first of four consecutive Connacht SFC medals in 1963, while he also made the first of four consecutive All-Ireland final appearances that year but lost out to Dublin.[8] Three successive All-Ireland SFC titles followed for Leydon, beating Kerry in the finals of 1964 and 1965 and Meath in the 1966 decider.[9][10][11] He also claimed a National League title in 1965.

Leydon won three more Connacht SFC medals in 1968, 1970 and 1971, while he served as team captain in 1968. He was also a regular on the Connacht inter-provincial team for almost a decade and won Railway Cup medals in 1967 and 1969. Leydon's last big occasion for Galway was when he lined out at left corner-forward in the 1971 All-Ireland final defeat by Offaly.[12] His performances that season earned him his only All Star.[13]

Leydon retired from inter-county football in 1972 when his job as regional sales director with Cantrell and Cochrane required him to move to Cork. He joined the Nemo Rangers club in the city and won consecutive Cork SFC and Munster Club SFC titles in 1974 and 1975.[14] Leydon also lined out when Nemo were beaten by University College Dublin in the 1975 All-Ireland club final.[15]

Death

Leydon died at St Bridget's Hospice, The Curragh on 31 October 2023, at the age of 81.[16][17]

Honours

Team

St Jarlath's College
Dunmore
Nemo Rangers
Galway
Conancht

Individual

References

  1. ^ "Séamus Leydon". Hogan Stand. 10 September 1993. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  2. ^ Hughes, Paul (1 May 2020). "Sixty years since St Finian's were pipped by stellar St Jarlath's side". Westmeath Examiner. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  3. ^ Coss, Billy (23 October 2019). "Dunmore MacHales celebrate their Kings of the Sixties". The Tuam Herald. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  4. ^ Egan, Kevin (3 December 2022). "Dunmore MacHales come good late on to claim Connacht IFC title". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  5. ^ Woods, Mark (3 June 2021). "Recalling Cork's first All-Ireland minor football success in 1961". Echo Live. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Golden Jubilee reflections on one of Galway's greatest ever Minor football teams". The Tuam Herald. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  7. ^ Brosnan, Maurice (28 December 2023). "Remembering Seamus Leydon and the best goal ever". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  8. ^ Scully, Niall (18 May 2020). "'The thing I most remember is the noise. From the second we ran out, there was a din. And it was constant'". Irish Independent. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  9. ^ "3-In-A-Row Seán Cleary recalls the glory days with Galway". Ireland's Eye. 1 May 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Galway three-in-a row teams". Galway Advertiser. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Galway's three-in-a-row team remembered". Hogan Stand. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  12. ^ "50 years on, how Offaly won the 1971 All-Ireland final". Uibh Fháilí website. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  13. ^ Brosnan, Maurice (28 December 2023). "Madness of Football Podcast: John Keenan's tribute to Seamus Leydon and Galway's treble". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  14. ^ "Senior Football (Club)". Munster GAA website. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  15. ^ Breheny, Martin (20 November 2002). "Inclusion of UCD undermines club championship". Irish Independent. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  16. ^ Fallon, John (1 November 2023). "Former Galway and Nemo Rangers stalwart Seamus Leydon passes away". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  17. ^ Fallon, John (1 November 2023). "Galway three-in-a-row star Séamus Leydon dies, aged 81". Irish Times. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
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