John Joyce (1937 – 29 October 2019) was an Irish

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er who played for Dublin Senior Championship St Vincent's. He played at senior level for the Dublin county team for seven years, during which time he usually lined out as a full-forward. Joyce began his football career at club level with St Vincent's. After winning a Dublin Minor Championship medal in 1955, he subsequently broke onto the club's senior team. Joyce won the first of four successive Dublin Senior Championship medals in 1957 before bring his overall tally to six with further wins in 1962 and 1964. At inter-county level, Joyce was part of the successful Dublin minor team that won the All-Ireland Championship in 1955. He joined the Dublin senior team in 1956. From his debut, Joyce was ever-present as an inside forward and made a combined total of 61 National League and Championship appearances in a career that ended with his last game in

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. During that time he was part of the All-Ireland Championship-winning team in

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. Joyce also secured four Leinster Championship medals and a

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medal. Joyce is currently Dublin's second-highest goalscorer of all time, having scored 39–55 in 61 appearances. At inter-provincial level, he was selected to play in several championship campaigns with

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, winning two

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medals. Joyce scored 5–3 against Longford in 1960, which remained a record highest individual scorer in any championship football match until 2002 when

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of Fermanagh matched it with 3–9. Joyce then lost the joint record to

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of Mayo's four goals (accompanied by nine points) in the

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semi-final at

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Honours

;St Vincent's *

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(6): 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964 ;Dublin *

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(1):

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(4):

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(1): 1957-58 *

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(1): 1955 *

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(1): 1955 ;Leinster *

(2): 1959, 1961

References

1937 births 2019 deaths Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers Gaelic football forwards Leinster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers St Vincents (Dublin) Gaelic footballers Winners of one All-Ireland medal (Gaelic football) People educated at St. Joseph's CBS, Fairview {{Dublin-gaelic-football-bio-stub