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Pádraig Carney (1928 – 9 June 2019) was a
Gaelic football Gaelic football ( ga, Peil Ghaelach; short name '), commonly known as simply Gaelic, GAA or Football is an Irish team sport. It is played between two teams of 15 players on a rectangular grass pitch. The objective of the sport is to score by kic ...
er who played as a centre-forward for the senior Mayo county team. He was one of the last two living players from the winning 1951 Mayo team, the other being Paddy Prendergast. Carney first played for the senior team while he was still a minor in the 1946 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the National League final in 1954. During that time, he won two All-Ireland medals, four
Connacht Connacht ( ; ga, Connachta or ), is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, Conmhaícne, and Delbhn ...
medals and two
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medals. Carney also had the distinction of being the first player to score a goal from a penalty in an All-Ireland final. Carney played club football with a range of clubs. However, it was with
Castlebar Mitchels Castlebar Mitchels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Castlebar area in County Mayo, Ireland. The club was founded in 1885 and is named after the nationalist John Mitchel (1815–1875). Though football is the club's dominant spor ...
that he won two
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medals. He died in June 2019, at the age of 91.


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1928 births 2019 deaths Castlebar Mitchels Gaelic footballers Irish expatriates in the United States Irish gynaecologists Irish obstetricians Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers Connacht inter-provincial Gaelic footballers Winners of two All-Ireland medals (Gaelic football) 20th-century Irish medical doctors People from Swinford, County Mayo Medical doctors from County Mayo {{Mayo-gaelic-football-bio-stub