Mossie Lyons is an Irish Gaelic football half-back who plays with the

Castleisland Desmonds Castleisland Desmonds are a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Castleisland, County Kerry, Ireland. The club won its first County Championship in 1950. They won others in 1981, 1982 and 1984. They won the Munster Club Championship and All-I ...

club side, and formerly with the

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county team.

Playing career

Lyons was first selected for the Kerry senior team in 2000, after playing for the county in the

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and

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. He won a number of inter-county

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s as a substitute (Kerry winning in 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2007), but never established himself in the half-back line, with a number of very talented footballers like

Séamus Moynihan Séamus Moynihan is an Irish former Gaelic footballer from Shronedarraugh, a townland halfway between Barraduff and Glenflesk, County Kerry. He has played football for St Brendan's College, Glenflesk, East Kerry, University College Cork ...

and

Tomás Ó Sé Tomás Ó Sé (; born 21 June 1978) is an Irish former Gaelic footballer. He played Gaelic football with Nemo Rangers and at senior level for the Kerry county team from 1998 until he retired in 2013, playing predominantly in the half-back line ...

occupying the starting spots. He retired after winning the 2007 All-Ireland championship with Kerry.

References

External links

* http://www.kerrygaa.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=64 Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Castleisland Gaelic footballers Kerry inter-county Gaelic footballers {{Kerry-gaelic-football-bio-stub