Paddy "Monty" Monaghan was an Irish

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who played for

Sligo Rovers Sligo Rovers Football Club ( ga, Cumann Peile Ruagairí Shligigh) is an Irish professional football club playing in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland. The club is based in Sligo in the west of Ireland. The club was founded in 1928 ...

and the Irish Free State national team. Monaghan played for Sligo before they entered senior football, winning the Leinster Senior League, the Metropolitan Cup and the

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. He played in the club's first senior match in 1934, against St James's Gate in the

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. He went on to make a total of 165 appearances for Sligo Rovers, scoring 96 goals, of which 57 were in senior football. He was part of the Sligo team that won the 1936-37 League of Ireland title and reached the 1939 FAI Cup Final. He played twice for the Irish Free State, against

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and

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in 1935; he is the only Sligo Rovers player to have represented Ireland at full international level.

Honours

Sligo Rovers *

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: 1936–37

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monaghan, Paddy Republic of Ireland men's association footballers Irish Free State men's international footballers Sligo Rovers F.C. players League of Ireland players Men's association football forwards Year of birth missing