Johnny Nevin is a former

dual player Dual player or dual star is a term used in Hiberno-English to describe someone who competes in multiple sports — for example, in Victorian Ireland, cricket and hurling. The term today in Gaelic games typically describes a male player who plays ...

from

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. He played

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and

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with

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between the late 1980s and the 2000s. Nevin won an All-Ireland B Football medal in 1994 He competed in the

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in both football and hurling with

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. He played well over 100 games with both teams. Including hurling and football, Cork is the only county Nevin has not played against competitively at senior level. In recent years, Nevin has gone into coaching. He has been involved in many teams such as Naomh Bríd, Old Leighlin, and Carlow juvenile hurling and football teams respectively. He has been very successful in the development of juvenile hurling and football in Carlow.

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* http://www.hoganstand.com/Carlow/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=40952 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dual players Carlow inter-county Gaelic footballers Old Leighlin Gaelic footballers Carlow inter-county hurlers Naomh Brid hurlers {{Carlow-hurling-bio-stub