Séamus "Jim" McGuinness (1930 – 6 January 2008) was an Irish
Gaelic football
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championship career at senior level with the
Dublin county team spanned eight seasons from 1950 to 1958.
McGuinness made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of nineteen when he was selected for the Dublin junior team. He played one championship season with the junior team, culminating with the winning of a
Leinster medal in 1949. McGuinness subsequently joined the Dublin senior team during the
1950–51 league. During his career he won one
Leinster medal and one
National Football League medal. He retired from inter-county football due to injury in 1958.
He was not fully fit on the day of the
1955 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final.
Honours
;St Maur's
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Dublin Junior Football Championship (1): 1951
;Dublin
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Leinster Senior Football Championship (1):
1955
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National Football League (1):
1954–55
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Leinster Junior Football Championship
The Leinster Junior Football Championship is a junior "knockout" competition in the game of Gaelic football played in the province of Leinster in Ireland. The series of games are organised by the Leinster Council. The competition began in 1906, ...
(1): 1949
References
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1930 births
2008 deaths
Dublin inter-county Gaelic footballers
Naomh Maur Gaelic footballers