Séamus Bannon (1927 – 27 February 1990) was an
Irish sportsman. He played
hurling
Hurling (, ') is an outdoor Team sport, team game of ancient Gaelic culture, Gaelic Irish origin, played by men and women. One of Ireland's native Gaelic games, it shares a number of features with Gaelic football, such as the field and goa ...
at various with his local clubs
Nenagh Éire Óg in Tipperary and
Young Irelands in Dublin and was a member of the
Tipperary senior inter-county team in the 1940s and 1950s. Bannon won three
All-Ireland
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and three
Munster
Munster ( or ) is the largest of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south west of the island. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" (). Following the Nor ...
titles with Tipperary.
He was the father of
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
player
Paul Bannon.
References
1927 births
1990 deaths
Nenagh Éire Óg hurlers
Young Irelands (Dublin) hurlers
Tipperary inter-county hurlers
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners
20th-century Irish sportsmen
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