Leighton Glynn is a

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and

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player from

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in Ireland. He was born and raised in Glenealy, County Wicklow. He has represented the Wicklow senior GAA teams in both football and hurling. At club level, he plays hurling for Glenealy and football for Rathnew.

Playing career

Club In December 2001, Leighton won a Leinster Senior Club Championship with Rathnew when they defeated a Na Fianna team that included Kieran McGeeney and

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after extra time in a replay. The first match which ended in a draw saw Leighton spring from the bench with Rathnew behind to score a point before Mark Doyle levelled to set up a replay. In the replay Leighton was named as corner back alongside current Wicklow full back Damian Power as Rathnew made history in capturing the title for the first time in their history in a score of 2-16 to 1-10 after extra time. He added other county titles in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010. He has also won Wicklow Senior Hurling Championships 10 times in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012 with Glenealy. Hurling He was part of the Wicklow team that won the All Ireland B Championship in 2003 when they over came Roscommon in the final. Glynn was a member of the Wicklow squad which reached the

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Division Two final in 2007. In 2011 after a number of years away from intercounty hurling he rejoined the team and helped them to win a

Div 3A title. Later he helped them reach a first

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final but

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proved too strong on the day running out 2-21 to 2-09 winners. He was captain of the county team in 2006. Football Glynn first came on the intercounty scene in the mid-2000s. He won a

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with Wicklow footballers under new manager Mick O'Dwyer. He played an instrumental role in the final, scoring 1-4 against Antrim. Leighton was also named as

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player of the year 2007 In 2008, Wicklow defeated Kildare in the Leinster Senior Football Championship and reached the Lenister quarter-final, where they lost narrowly to Laois. Leighton again, was a major influence in these games and picked up the Vodafone Player of the Month award as a result. In the Tommy Murphy Cup, Wicklow reached the final again, but were defeated by Antrim. Glynn was selected in the Ireland squad for the

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. As a result of this, Glynn also picked up Wicklow Senior Footballer of the Year for 2008. Leighton was named as Wicklow's senior football captain for 2009 and 2010.http://www.setanta.com/ie/Articles/other-sports/2009/01/30/GAA-Glynn-new-Wicklow-captain-/gnid-37837/ 2009 can be considered as one of Wicklow's most successful years. For the first time in their history, Wicklow played 6 Championship matches. In these 6 matches they defeated Longford in Leinster and they bet Fermanagh, Cavan and Down in the Qualifiers. Against Down, Leighton gave an inspirational performance and scored 1-3 from play

He was also given man of the match against Fermanagh where he gave a workman like performance to see Wicklow through to play Cavan

Leighton's run with Wicklow ended against a strong Kildare team who advanced to the 1/4 finals to play Tyrone

In September 2009 Leighton was nominated for a GAA All Star Award, along with Arklow Geraldines Ballymoney's star corner back

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. In 2012 he was captain of the

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side that won the Div 4 National Football Lagaue title in

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. He was a selector under John Evans.

Honours

Club

;Rathnew * Wicklow Senior Football Championship (12): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017 *

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(1): 2001-2002 ;Glenealy * Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship(10): 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012,2013, 2017, 2018

County

;

Wicklow GAA The Wicklow County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) ( ga, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Cill Mhantáin) or Wicklow GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wi ...

Football *

(1): 2007 * Runner Up: 2008 * National Football League Div 4 (1): 2012 (captain) Hurling * All Ireland B Championship: 2004 *

Div 3A (1): 2011 *

Div 2 Runner Up: 2007 *

Runner Up: 2011

Country

;Ireland * Cormac McAnallen Cup (2):

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2011 Runner Up 2010

Personal

* Vodafone Footballer of the Month (1): May 2008 * GPA's Tommy Murphy Cup Player of Year (1): 2007 * Wicklow Senior Footballer of the Year (1): 2008 * All-Star Nominee (1): 2009

References

External links

Wicklow on Hoganstand.com

Wicklow GAA site

{{DEFAULTSORT:Glynn, Leighton 1982 births Living people Dual players Gaelic football selectors Irish international rules football players Rathnew Gaelic footballers Glenealy hurlers Wicklow inter-county Gaelic footballers Wicklow inter-county hurlers Wicklow county football team