James Joseph Stuart, known as J. J. or Joe Stuart (9 June 1904 – 21 March 1980) was the 19th

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. Born in

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, he won two

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medals with UCD and also hurled in Clare, Galway and Limerick. He was a medical doctor and was Master of Dublin's Coombe Hospital from 1957 to 1963.
www.coombe.ie, retrieved 23 January 2017 He served as vice-chairman of Dublin GAA, Dublin county committee for many years and in 1954 became the only non-Leinster man to chair the

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. He was also a prominent

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referee who took charge of the 1943 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final between Cork and Antrim.

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1980 deaths 1904 births All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final referees Chairmen of Gaelic games governing bodies Dublin County Board administrators Gaelic games players from County Clare Hurling referees Leinster Provincial Council administrators Presidents of the Gaelic Athletic Association 20th-century Irish medical doctors {{GAA-bio-stub