Pádraig Tyers (20 October 1925 – 19 February 2010) was an Irish

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. He played for his local club Lees and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from 1954 until 1956. Tyers also enjoyed a distinguished career as an

Irish language Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was ...

scholar, author and educator.

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1925 births 2010 deaths UCC Gaelic footballers UCC hurlers Lees Gaelic footballers Cork inter-county Gaelic footballers Waterford Gaelic footballers Munster inter-provincial Gaelic footballers Gaelic football goalkeepers {{Cork-hurling-bio-stub