Thomas Moriarty (1928 – 16 January 2002) was an Irish

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er. At club level he played with

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and Clonakilty and was a member of the

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and

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s. Moriarty usually lined out as a midfielder.

Career

Moriarty first came to

prominence as a student with Tralee CBS, winning consecutive

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titles in 1944 and 1945. By this stage he had already began his adult club career with the

club. His occupation as a bank official resulted in him joining lining out with a number of clubs, firstly with

in Dunmanway and later with Clonakilty. He captained the latter to a

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success in 1952. Moriarty first appeared on the inter-county scene as

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of the Kerry minor football team that won the All-Ireland Minor Championship in 1946. He was drafted onto the

in 1949 but later won an All-Ireland Junior Championship title with Cork in 1951. This success resulted in his elevation to the senior team and he won

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and Munster Championship titles in 1952. Moriarty declared for Kerry in February 1953, however, he was later served with a 12-month suspension for lining out in a

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game. He resumed his position on the Kerry team the following year and won three Munster Championship titles in five seasons as well as an All-Ireland Championship title in 1955. Moriarty's career was brought to a premature end when he broke his leg during the 1958 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by

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Personal life and death

Born in Cappagh,

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, Moriarty began his banking career with AIB in Dunmanway, before progressing through the ranks in Clonakilty and Cork city. He was then chosen on a specialist team to set up the British operations of AIB. Moriarty returned to Cork for a period before taking up the position of manager of the Castle Street branch of AIB in Tralee in the early 1970s. He was appointed Regional Manager for Kerry in 1975 and, six years later, was appointed General Manager West, based in

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. He retired in 1988. Moriarty died on 16 January 2002, aged 73.

Honours

;Tralee CBS *

: 1944, 1945 ;Clonakilty * Cork Senior Football Championship:

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

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: 1951-52 * All-Ireland Junior Football Championship:

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

* Munster Junior Football Championship:

;Kerry * All-Ireland Senior Football Championship:

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

* All-Ireland Minor Football Championship:

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

References

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