Jackie Lyne (1923 - 15 December 1993) was an Irish

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trainer, selector and player. His

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and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned twelve seasons from 1943 to 1954. Born in Killarney,

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, Lyne was raised in a family that had a strong association with the game of Gaelic football. His brothers, Dinny and

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, both enjoyed All-Ireland success with Kerry. Lyne's nephew,

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, was an eight-time All-Ireland medal winner with Kerry between 1975 and 1986. Lyne played competitive Gaelic football during his schooling at St. Brendan's College. Here he claimed a Dunloe Cup medal before later winning county senior championship medals as a dual player. Lyne subsequently joined the

Killarney Legion Killarney Legion are a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Killarney in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The club was founded on a March evening in 1929 when a group of eleven men held a meeting in the then Temperance movement, Temp ...

club and enjoyed an eighteen-year senior championship career, winning one county senior championship medal in 1946. Lyne made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected for the Kerry minor team in 1941. He enjoyed one championship season with the minor team, however, he ended the year as All-Ireland runner-up. He made his senior debut in a tournament game in 1943. Over the course of the next twelve seasons, he won two All-Ireland medals in 1946 and 1953. He also won eight

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medals. After being dropped from the Kerry team prior to the 1954 All-Ireland final, he played his last game for Kerry later that year in a tournament. After being chosen on the

inter-provincial team for the first time in 1945, Lyne was an automatic choice on the starting fifteen for much of the next decade. During that time he won three

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medals. In retirement from playing, Lyne continued his association with Kerry by becoming involved in team management and coaching. He was a selector with the Kerry senior team that claimed All-Ireland honours in 1955. Over a decade later Lyne returned to the senior team as trainer. In his four seasons in charge he guided the team to two successive All-Ireland Championships, three successive Munster Championships and two National Leagues.

Honours

Player

;University College Cork * Sigerson Cup (1): 1944 ;Killarney Legion *

Kerry Senior Football Championship The Kerry Senior Football Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as Garvey’s SuperValu Senior Football Championship) is an annual Gaelic football competition organised by the Kerry County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association since 188 ...

(1): 1946 ;Kerry * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2):

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

Munster Senior Football Championship The Munster Senior Football Championship, known simply as the Munster Championship and shortened to Munster SFC, is an annual inter-county Gaelic football competition organised by the Munster Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). It i ...

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1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

* Munster Minor Football Championship (1): 1941 ;Munster *

(3): 1946, 1948, 1949

Selector

;Kerry * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (1):

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

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Trainer

;Kerry * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (2):

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

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1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

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(2): 1968-69, 1970-71

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lyne, Jackie 1923 births 1993 deaths Gaelic football coaches Gaelic football selectors Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers Killarney Legion Gaelic footballers Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers Jackie Winners of two All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football)